After his release from death row, Paris LaPriest Powell sued the prosecutor
responsible for his overturned conviction, Robert Bradley Miller. Powell charged
that Miller had suborned perjury from a key witness at his trial, Derrick Smith; had
hidden from the defense evidence of Miller’s agreement to help Smith with his own
criminal charges; and had failed to disclose the effort

Josephine Douglas-Peters1 appeals the trial court’s final judgment in favor of Forest Law, P.C. d/b/a Cho, Choe & Holen, P.C.,2 as assignee of Choe, Holen, Yoo & Burchfiel, P.C.,3 on its claim against Douglas-Peters for breach of a legal representation retainer agreement and awarding it $90,453.21 in damages. Douglas-Peters raises four issues on appeal, arguing: (1) the evidence is legally and fac

John M. Donohue challenges the trial court’s judgment granting the pleas to the jurisdiction
filed by the City of Boerne’s Police Chief James Koehler and Police Officer Pablo Morales.
Donohue also challenges the trial court’s judgment granting Martha Donohue’s plea to the
jurisdiction rendered in the same proceeding. We affirm the trial court’s judgment granting Chief
Koehler and O

San Angelo, TX - Defendant Convicted of First-Degree Murder

The State of Texas charged Stephano Miguel Culbreath with first-degree murder for killing David Titus. He was also charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Charges: CULBREATH, STEPHANO MIGUEL Statute Level Date
1. MURDER 19.02(b)(1) First Degree Felony 07/25/2015

Events & Orders of the Cour

Appellant Deborah Logsdon appeals from the trial court’s summary
judgment granted in favor of appellee Mark E. Logsdon. Because we conclude
the trial court did not err, we affirm the trial court’s judgment. See Tex. R. App.
P. 43.2(a).
1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
2
I. BACKGROUND
A. DIVORCE AND LIQUIDATION OF ASSETS BY AUCTION
Deborah and Mark married in 1984 and join

In this appeal, we determine whether the City of Houston must pay
attorney’s fees to compensate a citizen who pursued and won access to
information under the Texas Public Information Act. Invoking the PIA,
Randall Kallinen asked the City of Houston to disclose information regarding


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a traffic-light camera study that the City had commissioned. The City g

Israa Hassan, a U.S. citizen,
filed an I-130 petition seeking permanent resident status for her
noncitizen husband, Kamal Ali. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1151(b)(2)(A)(i),
1154(a)(1)(A)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 204.2(a). After interviewing Ali and
Hassan, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") issued
a Notice of Intent to Deny ("NOID") the petition because of the
agency's determina

Plaintiffs Brittany and Kimberly Irish (together, "the
Irishes") brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983
action against Maine State Police officers after Anthony Lord, a
former boyfriend of Brittany Irish ("Irish"), broke into her
parents' home, fatally shot her boyfriend (Kyle Hewitt), shot and
grievously wounded her mother (plaintiff Kimberly Irish), abducted
her, and engaged in a

Appellant challenges the district court’s grant of summary judgment in a wrongfuldeath
action, arguing that the district court erred by: (1) determining that vicarious official
immunity protected respondent county; (2) granting judgment in favor of deceased’s health
care providers on appellant’s negligence claims for failure to establish a duty of care; and
(3) granting judgment ag

Plaintiff-Appellant Phillip Turner was video recording a Fort Worth
police station from a public sidewalk across the street when Defendants-
Appellees Officers Grinalds and Dyess approached him and asked him for
identification. Turner refused to identify himself, and the officers ultimately
handcuffed him and placed him in the back of a patrol car. The officers’
supervisor, Def

¶1 Plaintiff/Appellant Beverly Howard, as Next Friend of James Payne, deceased, appeals from the trial court's order dismissing her claim for a violation of due process against Defendant/Appellee Grady County Criminal Justice Authority (GCCJA). The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held in Bosh v. Cherokee County Governmental Building Authority, 2013 OK 9, 305 P.3d 994, that a private cause of action exis

This appeal originates from a lawsuit filed by Plaintiff/Appellant John Doe (a pseudonym for Plaintiff) (hereinafter, "Appellant") against Defendants/Appellees The First Presbyterian Church of U.S.A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and James D. Miller (hereinafter, "Appellees") alleging breach of contract, negligence, and outrage. Appellant alleges he was born in Syria into the Muslim Faith, but for most of h

Hispanic employees of Koch Foods (“Koch”), a poultry processor, allege harassment and abuse on the job. Koch claims they made up the allegations in order to get U visas, which are available to abuse victims who assist in government investigations. The company sought discovery of any information related to the employees’ U visa applications. Plaintiffs objected, pointing out that the discovery woul

10 This is a case about unconstitutional conditions of
11 confinement for pretrial detainees. Twenty state pretrial
12 detainees (“the plaintiffs”)1 arrested on separate dates between
13 July 10, 2011, and July 23, 2013, brought individual § 1983
14 claims in the same complaint against the City of New York (the
15 “City”), New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Captain
16

In June 2009, as part of a federal law-enforcement investigation known as
“Operation Cerberus,” FBI and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) agents
arrested twenty-three people and searched twelve properties in and near three Utah
cities—Blanding, Monticello, and Moab. The operation targeted persons possessing
and trafficking in Native American artifacts illegally taken from the Four

Plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh sues several individuals who served as high-ranking officials in the administration of President George W. Bush. Plaintiff claims that the former officials conspired to engage in, and did engage in, a war of aggression against Iraq and that, in doing so, they violated the “law of nations” within the meaning of the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”), 28 U.S.C. § 1350. The di

Plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh sues several individuals
who served as high-ranking officials in the administration of
President George W. Bush. Plaintiff claims that the former
officials conspired to engage in, and did engage in, a war of
aggression against Iraq and that, in doing so, they violated the
“law of nations” within the meaning of the Alien Tort Statute
(“ATS”), 28

Most Fourth Amendment issues arise
when a criminal defendant files a motion to suppress evidence
allegedly collected in violation of its standards, but this
is not such a case. Charles Beal, Jr., has brought a civil action
under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which he asserts that two detectives
on the Kenosha, Wisconsin, police force lacked any justification
recognized by the Fourth

In August 2009, Petro was arrested and charged with domestic abuse
assault causing bodily injury. It was alleged Petro had assaulted his wife in front
of their two children. As a result, DHS became involved with the family and a
founded child abuse assessment—for denial of critical care—resulted. The State
filed petitions alleging the children were children in need of assis

Plaintiffs-Appellants Mathew Carabajal and his son, V.M.C., through
Mathew and V.M.C.’s mother, Arianna Martinez, appeal from the district court’s
judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Officers Joshua Thornton and Michael
Sutton, and Defendant-Appellee City of Cheyenne (“the City”). On appeal,
Plaintiffs challenge the district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’

The factual events of the incident began in the early evening of Saturday,
April 17, 2010, at the home of Justin McCumbers, Brandon Junk, and Eric Blair.
At the time, Christopher Markus had an agreement under which he would live in
the home for two to four nights per week in a spare bedroom and pay $400 rent per
month. McCumbers testified that Markus was staying overnight on

The Petitioner was indicted by the Shelby County Grand Jury for two counts of aggravated rape, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of aggravated burglary. State v. Mahlon Johnson, No. W2011-01786-CCA-R3-CD, 2013 WL 501779, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Feb. 7, 2013). The charges stemmed from an altercation that occurred on October 31, 2008, between the Petitioner and his wife, the victim.

The pertinent facts are as follows. On August 2, 2014, Officer Alden responded to a report that a woman, later identified as Kerry St. Lawrence, had collapsed on the lawn outside 14 Bank Street in Lebanon. When Alden arrived, he saw St. Lawrence sitting bent over on the lawn, approximately six feet from the entrance of the rooming house located at that address. Alden called out to her, but she

On November 29, 2013, a 911 dispatcher received a report that Appellant’s 17-year-old
sister was threatening suicide and had a knife. El Paso Police Officer James O’Connor was
dispatched to the home. The jury heard three different versions of what occurred at the residence.
Officer O’Connor’s Testimony Officer O’Connor testified that Appellant’s mother met him at the front door of