In 2013, Wayne Jones, a black man experiencing homelessness, was stopped by law enforcement in Martinsburg, West Virginia for walking alongside, rather than on, the sidewalk. By the end of this encounter, Jones would be dead. Armed only with a knife tucked into his sleeve, he was tased four times, hit in the brachial plexus, kicked, and placed in a choke hold. In his final moments, he lay on the g

} In May 2019, appellant was charged by criminal complaint with two offenses:one count of criminal trespass, a fourth-degree misdemeanor in violation of R.C.2911.21(A)(1); and one count of disorderly conduct, a minor misdemeanor in violation ofThese charges stemmed from appellant's uninvited visit to see hischildren at the home of his ex-wife and her fiancé (the "victim"), during which appellanten

Jackson is an inmate in the custody and control of ODRC at the Ohio
Reformatory for Women ("ORW").

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP suits) are meritless
lawsuits designed to punish parties for protected activities (the right to petition or free
speech). A party can move to strike a SLAPP suit by filing an anti-SLAPP motion.
(Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16.)1
There is a two-prong test: the moving party must show the
lawsuit arises from its protected activiti

North Edwards Water District (the District) selected Clark Bros., Inc. (Clark) as its
general or direct contractor on a public works project to build an arsenic removal water
treatment plant. Clark hired subcontractor Crosno Construction (Crosno) to build and
coat two steel reservoir tanks. The subcontract contained a "pay-when-paid" provision
that stated Clark would pay Crosno wit

Real parties in interest Derrick D. Hunter and Lee Sullivan
(defendants) were indicted on murder, weapons, and gang-related charges
stemming from a drive-by shooting. Each defendant served a subpoena duces
tecum on one or more of the petitioners, social media providers Facebook,
Inc., Instagram, LLC, and Twitter, Inc. (collectively, providers), seeking both
public and private c

Sells Reed III sued the City of Los Angeles for injuries he
sustained when he rode his bicycle into a rope attached to a
badminton net stretched across a paved path in MacArthur
Park.
1 The trial court granted the City’s motion for summary
judgment on multiple independent grounds: Reed’s suit was
barred by the doctrine of trail immunity (Gov. Code, § 831.4), no
negligen