In this racial discrimination
case, ten black plaintiffs challenge the Boston Police Department's
drug testing program. Seven of the plaintiffs are former officers
fired by the department after testing positive for cocaine; the
eighth is a former cadet in the same situation; the ninth continues
to work as an officer after testing positive and undergoing
rehabilitation as an... More...   $0 (05-07-2014 - MA)

On January 25, 2012, Cung Hnin (“Hnin”) filed a four-count Complaint against his former

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employer TOA (USA), LLC (“TOA”) alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000, et seq., pursuant to the district court’s original jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1331, and two state law claims pursuant to the dis-trict court’s suppleme... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - IN)

In this interlocutory appeal, appellants, TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. and Patricia Chapoy, challenge the trial court’s granting of a temporary anti-suit injunction prohibiting

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appellants from pursuing a lawsuit in Mexico against appellees, Gloria de los Angeles Trevino Ruiz, individually and on behalf of her minor child, Gabriel de Jesus Trevino, and Armando Ismael Gomez Martinez. ... More...   $0 (05-02-2014 - TX)

CHICAGO, IL — A Dutch man who allegedly used the shuttered Silk Road underground website to sell illegal drugs for bitcoins worth millions of dollars has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug conspiracy charge filed against him today. The defendant, CORNELIS JAN SLOMP, through his attorney, authorized the government to disclose that he will plead guilty to conspiracy to import and distribute... More...   $0 (04-24-2014 - IL)

The parties to this appeal executed a Rule 11 settlement agreement at mediation in which they agreed, among other things, to (1) execute final settlement

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documents to be drafted after the conclusion of the mediation and (2) return to the mediator to have her arbitrate, resolve and render a final decision in disputes “regarding the drafting of the [final settlement] agreement and ... More...   $0 (03-13-2014 - TX)

Following a jury trial, Defendant-Appellant Gloria Porter was convicted of 105 counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and one count of identity theft. Ms. Porter appeals her convictions, claiming that the district court incorrectly instructed the jury with respect to aggravated identity theft and that the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions for wire fraud and mail fraud. W... More...   $0 (03-07-2014 - NM)

We consider whether prison officials sued for money damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 may raise a lack of available resources as a defense.

I. Background

At the time Cion Adonis Peralta arrived at California State Prison, Los Angeles County (Lancaster), the prison had only three or four dentists and three or four dental assistants. It had no office technicians or dental hygienists. Sta... More...   $0 (03-06-2014 - CA)

Appellant Aaron Ross (“Appellant”) brought this action challenging his March 12, 2008 and March 25, 2009 arrests for refusing to obey Baltimore City Police Officer Wayne Early’s (“Officer Early”) repeated orders to confine his leafleting to the area designated for protest activities outside the First Mariner Arena (the “Arena”) in Baltimore, Maryland. The designated protest area was ... More...   $0 (03-06-2014 - MD)

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company dba AT & T Oklahoma sued Flintco, Inc., Manhattan Construction Company, Manhattan Construction Group, Inc. Peterson Contractors, Inc. and USIC Locating Services, Inc. on negligence theories.

Court's Finds of Fact and Conclusions of Law

1. USIC had a Contract with AT&T to mark its utility lines, including fiber opä cables.

2. USIC empl... More...   $1 (02-13-2014 - OK)

Today's case — a diversity suit governed, the parties agree, by Massachusetts substantive law — arises from the efforts of plaintiff HSBC Realty Credit Corporation (USA) to recover $8.1 million from defendant J. Brian O'Neill under a guaranty. A district judge struck O'Neill's defenses, dismissed his counterclaims, denied him leave to replead, and granted HSBC judgment on the pleadings. O'Neil... More...   $0 (02-07-2014 - MA)

{¶ 1} This matter is before the Court on the Notice of Appeal of Neelima R.

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Lakkapragada, filed August 28, 2013.1 Neelima appeals from the July 31, 2013 Final Judgment and Decree of Divorce, issued after she failed to appear at the final hearing on Madhav Lakkapragada’s August 7, 2012 complaint for divorce. The parties were married on August 13, 1998, in Hyderabad, India, an... More...   $0 (01-31-2014 - OH)

Vidyawattie Matura ("the mother") appeals from a final judgment dissolving her marriage to Andrew Griffith ("the father"). The only issue on appeal is the trial court's decision to allow the father to have visitation with the parties' two sons in Jamaica, a non-signatory to the Hague Convention of the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Hague Convention"). The father was deported to J... More...   $0 (01-31-2014 - FL)

John Doe, age 21, sued Douglas W. Myers, age 64, and Florida Baptist Convention on assault and batter theories, negligence and respondeat superior theories claiming that he was sexually assaulted by Myers when he was acting as an agent for the Convention's "church planting" efforts in the mid-2000s.... More...   $12500000 (01-20-2014 - FL)

21 Plaintiff-Appellant Brian Anthony Martinez (“Martinez”) appeals from a
22 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
23 York (Furman, J.), dismissing his complaint for improper venue under Rule
24 12(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Martinez brought this action
25 against his former employer, Bloomberg LP (“Bloomberg”), a ... More...   $0 (01-14-2014 - NY)

{1} “All persons are born equally free, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights, among which are the rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of seeking and obtaining safety and happiness.” N.M. Const. art. II, § 4. These inherent rights, enjoyed by all New Mexicans, appear along with twenty-three other provisio... More...   $0 (01-10-2014 - NM)

In this appeal we consider whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Alison J. Nathan, Judge) erred in granting the petition of John Matthew Hollis for the return of his daughter, H.L.O., from New York to New Zealand, pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 1343 U.N.T.S. 89 (th... More...   $0 (01-07-2014 - NY)

Appellants RCS Enterprises, LP (RCS) and James Martin Montgomery filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought against them by Appellees Darrell G. Hilton and Debbie L. Hilton. The trial court denied that motion, and RCS and Montgomery now appeal. They alternately seek a writ of mandamus ordering the trial court to not consider the Hiltons’ supplemental expert affidavit. Because we

1See T... More...   $0 (12-19-2013 - TX)

Petitioner Kenneth Kenroy Morris, a native and citizen of Jamaica, petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming the denial of his application for deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Because Morris was found removable on the basis of an aggravated felony conviction and he presents neither questions of law nor constitutional clai... More...   $0 (12-17-2013 - MA)

Kody Brown, Christine Brown, Janelle Brown, Meri Browan and Robyn Sullivan sued Gary Hebert, Jeffrey R. Buhman and Mark Shurtleff on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 seeking to prevent them from enforcing Utah's prohibition against co-habitation. The Browns are a polgyamous family that were the subject of TLC's reality series "Sister Wives". They claimed that the phrase "or coh... More...   $0 (12-15-2013 - UT)

Evangelos Pagonis, Texas prisoner # 1626253, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2)(B) and 1915A(b)(1) and 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(c)(1) as frivolous and for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. In relation to his appeal, Pagonis has filed motions to amend his appellate brief, for the appointment of couns... More...   $0 (12-12-2013 - TX)

This appeal presents a single issue, which is whether the defendant was served with process; yet the case could be the basis for a novel of international intrigue. Sikhism is an Indian religion. Most Sikhs live in the northwestern Indian state of Punjab. The state’s highest official is its Chief Minister. Parkash Singh Badal, the defendant

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in this case—a Sikh of c... More...   $0 (11-26-2013 - WI)

Appellants, who own bars in Indianapolis-Marion County, Indiana, filed suit seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against enforcement of the

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2012 Indianapolis-Marion County smoking ordinance. The district court denied the bar owners’ motion for a preliminary and permanent injunction and entered judgment in favor of the City. The bar owners now appeal.

I. BA... More...   $0 (11-25-2013 - IN)

We are tasked with deciding whether twin girls, now resident with their father in the United States, should be returned to their mother in Mexico. The district court for district of Arizona ruled that they should not. We affirm.

FACTS

In late 2006, Steve Michel and Blanca Reyes Valenzuela chose to live together in Nogales, Mexico. The twins were born in 2008.

According t... More...   $0 (11-20-2013 - AZ)

Kevin Fabricio Claros Cantarero ("Claros"), a citizen and native of El Salvador, is an ex-member of a violent criminal street gang based in the United States. Claiming that he would face persecution and torture on account of his former gang membership if repatriated, Claros applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). An Immigration Judge... More...   $0 (10-31-2013 - MA)

One aim of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 1988 WL 411501, is to deter a parent dissatisfied with a current custodial arrangement from wrongfully retaining a minor child outside his or her country of residence while seeking a more favorable arrangement elsewhere. Unfortunately, the Convention did not deter Respondent S... More...   $0 (10-30-2013 - UT)