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Dylan Robbins v. City of Medford

Plaintiff was seriously injured when he was hit by
a car while crossing South Riverside Avenue at its intersection
with Ninth Street in Medford. There are no traffic signals
controlling that intersection, but the City of Medford
has installed a crosswalk across South Riverside Avenue on
the south side of the intersection. Plaintiff was in that crosswalk
when he was hit, and

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Lillian Figueroa v. BNSF Railroad Company

Oregon requires that foreign corporations doing
business in this state appoint a registered agent to receive
service of process. ORS 60.731(1).1 The primary question
that this case presents is whether, by appointing a registered
agent in Oregon, defendant (a foreign corporation)
impliedly consented to general jurisdiction here—that is,
whether defendant consented to have Or

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R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY vs. PHIL J. MAROTTA, etc.

This case follows a long line of cases decided in light of Engle v. Liggett
Group, Inc. (Engle III), 945 So. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006). In Engle, a group of smokers
and their survivors filed a class action against major tobacco companies for
damages allegedly caused by smoking-related injuries. Id. at 1256.2 Among other
things, the class sought compensatory damages based on variou

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Jerry C. Johnson and Jacob Johnson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

This appeal arises from a suit brought by Jerry C. Johnson seeking declarations
construing the terms of two insurance policies following an automobile accident in which Jerry’s
son, Jacob, a minor at the time, was injured while Jerry was driving.1 See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.
Code §§ 37.001–.011. Jerry sued State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, which had
issued Jerry an aut

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Mable Caleb, Jackie Anderson, Patrick Cockerham, Diann Banks, and Herbert Lenton v. Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a lawsuit against the former superintendent of the Houston Independent School District. The appellants, who are
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former employees of the school district, sought injunctive and declaratory relief stemming from an investigation that culminated in a recommendation to terminate their employment.
The pleadings do not allege a facially valid challenge

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William Porter v. The State of Texas

On a Saturday evening in August 1986, Porter and his girlfriend, Anita Fries,1
began using drugs at Porter’s home. Porter was a drug dealer for the neighborhood.
He was upset that several people, including the decedent, Gerald Oncale, owed
money to him. When Porter learned that Oncale was nearby, Porter left the house
and met Oncale around the corner. At that meeting, Oncal

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State of Oklahoma v. William Campbell Tulsa County Courthouse

Tulsa, OK - Teenager Found Guilty and Sentence To 50 Years For Murdering Friend

The States of Oklahoma charged William Campbell, age 18, with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM11, MURDER - FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7
Date of Offense: 07/05/2015

Count # 2. Count as Filed: WE3, FELONIOUSLY POINTING FIREARM, in violation of 21 O.S. 1289.16
Date of Off

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United States of America v. Deric Lostutter

Lexington, KY - Winchester Man Sentenced To 24 Months For Illegally Hacking Into Website And Lying To Federal Agents

A Winchester, Ky., man, who previously admitted to hacking and taking control of a high school sports website, to gain publicity for his online identity and harass and intimidate the website owner and others, has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.

U.S.

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Memorial Hermann Health System v. Samia Khalil, M.D.

After 40 years of employment at Memorial Hermann hospital, Dr. Samia
Khalil sued Memorial Hermann Health System for defamation, tortious
interference with an existing contract, conspiracy, and intentional infliction of
emotional distress. Khalil, age 77, also sued for age discrimination. Memorial
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Hermann sought to dismiss several of her claims under summary dismiss

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The People v. Ignacio Garcia

According to the Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM), one in
every five girls and one in every seven boys is sexually abused by the time they
reach adulthood. Among adults, one in six women and one in 33 men suffer
sexual assault. (CSOM, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Fact Sheet: What You Need to
Know About Sex Offenders (2008) p. 1 needtoknow_fs.pdf> [as of M

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JOHN JOSEPH FILIPELLI vs. IOWA RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION and IOWA GREYHOUND ASSOCIATION


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The Iowa Legislature created the IRGC to have regulatory jurisdiction over
all gambling operations governed by Iowa Code chapters 99D (2015) (pa

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Hugo Rosario Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lorett E. Lynch

We recently confronted the thorny problem what to do when an executive
agency, exercising delegated legislative authority, seeks to overrule a judicial
precedent interpreting a congressional statute. In our constitutional history, after
all, judicial declarations of what the law is haven’t often been thought subject to
revision by the executive, let alone by an executive endowed wi

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TREVOR LANGKAMP v. THE UNITED STATES


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In this breach of contract matter, plaintiff, Trevor Langkamp, alleges that the government has breached the Settlement Agreement that his parents ent

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Michael Barnett v. City of Southside Place

Appellant, Michael Barnett, appeals from the trial court’s order granting appellee, City of Southside Place’s plea to the jurisdiction in his suit brought under the Texas Whistleblower Act. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. §§ 554.001–.010 (West
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2012). In three issues, Barnett contends that the trial court erred in granting the
City’s plea because (1) the evidence raises a fact issue regardin

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Eddie Gill v. City of Milwaukee, et al.

In February 2013, Eddie Gill confessed
to and was charged with the murder of Jordin Crawley.
Gill spent just over a year in jail awaiting trial. The charges
were dropped, however, after a Milwaukee County Circuit
Court judge suppressed Gill’s confession. Gill then filed a
series of federal and state law claims in federal district court
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against the Ci

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Michael Valdez v. Peter Derrik, III, John MacDonald, Robert Motyka, Jr., Jeff Motz and Karl Roller

Five police officers, the individual defendants in this case, appeal the district
court’s denial of their motion to dismiss, based on qualified immunity, five of the six
claims asserted against them by Michael Valdez under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and
1986. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and reverse.
I. Background
The following facts are alleged in the amended

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COMMONWEALTH vs. ESAU DePINA COMMONWEALTH vs. ISAIAH MONTEIRO

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We recite the facts that the jury could have found, reserving certain details
for later discussion. On November 16, 2009, a

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Audrey L. Releford, Jr., Individually, and as Representative of the Estate of Kenneth Brian Releford, v. Jason Roseman

“Few facts in this case are undisputed.”1 However, the parties stipulate to the following. In the pre-dawn hours of October 11, 2012, Kenneth Brian Releford was accused of breaking into a neighbor’s home and assaulting two of
* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth i

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Elizabeth Horowitz v. The Honorable Michael D. Mason

Judge Michael D. Mason of the Maryland Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered an $87,727.76 judgment against Plaintiffs Robert Horowitz and Cathy Horowitz and in favor of the law firm of Selzer Gurvitch Rabin Wetheimer Polott & Obecny, P.C. (“Selzer”). Following entry of that judgment, the Horowitzes1 brought the instant action alleging that two Selzer attorneys—Defendants Maury S. Epner and

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Jane Doe v. Mercy Catholic Medical Center

Medical residencies are a vital component of American medical education. McKeesport Hosp. v. ACGME, 24 F.3d 519, 525 (3d Cir. 1994). They provide new doctors a supervised transition between the pure academics of medical school and the realities of practice. Generally they do so successfully: Our nation’s residency programs reliably produce some of the “finest physicians and medical researchers in

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Long Canyon Phase II and III Homeowners Association, Inc. v. Chris Cashion and Lisa Cashion

Long Canyon Phase II and III Homeowners Association, Inc. (“the HOA”) appeals
from an interlocutory order denying its motion to dismiss a suit by Chris and Lisa Cashion. The
parties have for several years disputed whether the Cashions’ alleged landscaping activities in a
drainage easement violate the HOA’s rules. After the HOA sent the Cashions a notice of intent to
sue for non-com

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DEAN OLIVER TAPEDO v. STATE OF KANSAS

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On May 9, 2014, Officers Husam Shourbaji and Daniel Walker of the Wichita Police Department were dispatched to the Wesley

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STATE OF KANSAS v. LLOYD L.J. JACKSON, III

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On October 6, 2014, Twanna Pankey got into a fight with her then-boyfriend, Jackson, at her apartm

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STATE OF KANSAS v. MARLON T. HARDY

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On the night of March 16, 2013, Marlon Hardy rode as a passenger in Jaylyn Bradley's red Mustang convertible to pick up t

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Roger Garling v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Roger Garling, Sheryl Garling, and their business, R and D Enterprises, Inc.,
(collectively, “the Garlings”) sued the United States for damages arising from an
FILED United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit

March 7, 2017

Elisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of Court


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Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) raid and investigation of their l

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