This is an account-stated claim in which appellee Citibank, N.A. sued appellant Marc R. Core asserting that Core owed an outstanding credit card balance.1 Citibank
1 This case is before the Court on transfer from the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth pursuant to an order issued by the Supreme Court of Texas. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 73.001 (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d C.S.).
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Defendant Lisa Sedillo appeals her March 2013 conviction of one count of second degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)),1 five counts of attempted murder (§§ 664, 187, subd. (a)), and one count of shooting at an inhabited dwelling (§ 246). The convictions arise out of a gang-related shooting on December 1, 1992 that occurred outside a home in Long Beach. Francisco Moreno, the actual shoote... More...   $0 (04-08-2015 - CA)

The trial court entered an order that terminated the parental rights of the parents of A.S. The mother appeals, and on appeal, she presents two issues in which she challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.
Termination of parental rights must be supported by clear and convincing evidence. TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. § 161.001 (West 2014). To determine on appeal if the evidence is legally ... More...   $0 (04-02-2015 - TX)

PHOENIX, AZ – Ken Jermaine Fowler, 30, of Tuba City, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was found guilty by a federal jury of involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a minor. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow from March 3 - 26, 2015. The defendant was remanded into custody after trial. Sentencing is set before Judge Snow on June 2... More...   $0 (04-01-2015 - AZ)

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act makes clear that Title VII's prohibition against sex discrimination applies to discrimination based on pregnancy. It also says that employers must treat "women affected by pregnancy ... the same for all employment-related purposes ... as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work." 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k). We must decide how this l... More...   $0 (03-25-2015 - DC)

Defendant, who was convicted after a jury trial of
two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427, and
one count of second-degree sodomy, ORS 163.395, appeals.
He asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion
to suppress evidence, and in denying his motion for a mistrial
made during the prosecutor’s closing argument. He
also argues that nonunanimous jury ... More...   $0 (03-18-2015 - OR)

J.: This is a medical malpractice case in which we consider whether plaintiff put forth sufficient evidence of causation to survive summary judgment. The district court granted Dr. Neil Rosenquist's summary judgment motion, holding there was insufficient evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between the radiologist's alleged negligent diagnosis and the patient's death. The Court of Appeals a... More...   $0 (03-10-2015 - KS)

BOSTON, MA – A former Boston computer industry consultant was found guilty following a five-day jury trial on March 6, 2015, of assuming the identity of an infant who died in 1966 and using that identity to obtain a Social Security number.

Steven Nolte, 51, was convicted of passport fraud, aggravated identity theft, and use of a falsely-obtained Social Security number. U.S. District Co... More...   $0 (03-10-2015 - MA)

Victoria, TX - The State of Texas charged Thomas Lee Anderson, age 32, with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for stabbing William Tyler Shaffer, age 22, during an altercation at a party on September 22, 2013.

Anderson claimed self defense claiming that Shaffer was carrying a gun.

Title 5 Texas Code Section 22.01 provides:

Sec. 22.01. ASSAULT. (a) A person co... More...   $0 (03-06-2015 - TX)

Brooklyn, NY - Bebars Baslan was sentenced to 36 years’ imprisonment for his attempt to drug and sexually abuse three young children: a 7-year-old, an 18-month-old, and 3-month-old infant, and for his possession of over 76,000 images and videos of child pornography. Baslan was convicted on July 24, 2014, following a two-week trial of traveling with the intent to engage in sexual acts with a chil... More...   $0 (03-02-2015 - NY)

Jacksonville, FL – United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Christopher Richard Cloonan (45, Jacksonville) to life in federal prison for using a minor child to produce images depicting child pornography. The Court also ordered Cloonan to serve a life term of supervised release and to forfeit his electronic media. Cloonan is a registered child sex offender, having been previou... More...   $0 (02-27-2015 - FL)

In November 2003, a child (N.M.) experienced a severe brain injury
that left him permanently disabled. Ms. Abby Tiscareno, N.M.’s daycare
provider at the time, was blamed for this injury and prosecuted for child
abuse. But after two trials, Ms. Tiscareno was acquitted.
Ms. Tiscareno and her husband, Mr. Gillermo Tiscareno, have
invoked 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against two of the def... More...   $0 (02-23-2015 - UT)

WILMINGTON – United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted BRADLEY CAMPBELL, 23, of Harnett County, North Carolina, of kidnapping, use and carrying of a firearm during a crime of violence, and of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury returned its verdict following a trial in federal court before United States District Judge James C. Fox.

Fol... More...   $0 (02-09-2015 - NC)

Richard Ray Cisneros appeals from the judgment entered following his conviction by a jury of two counts of making a criminal threat against Ebony Pitts. Cisneros contends the trial court erred in denying his Batson/Wheeler1 motions alleging the prosecutor had discriminated against men in exercising peremptory challenges during jury selection.2 We reverse.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
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SAN DIEGO, CA – Michael William Lutts, a 50-year-old foster parent and pediatric nurse, pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually exploiting a two-month-old premature boy and an 11-month-old girl who had been placed in his care last summer.

According to his plea agreement, Lutts admitted to 15 instances in July and August in which he photographed and videotaped the babies in sexually... More...   $0 (01-29-2015 - CA)

¶1 N.W. (Mother) and J.B. (Father) appeal from orders of the Eleventh Judicial
District Court, Flathead County, terminating Mother’s parental rights to her children
L.M.F. and J.A.B., and Father’s rights to his child J.A.B. We affirm.
¶2 We restate the following issues for review:
1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it terminated Mother’s
parental rights... More...   $0 (01-27-2015 - MT)

PLANO, TX – A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas.

Charles Smolens, of Little Elm. Texas, pleaded guilty on April 29, 2014 to conspiracy to produce child pornography and distribution of child pornography, and was sentenced to 365 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Marcia Crone.

Accor... More...   $0 (01-09-2015 - TX)

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA),
adopted by California as Family Code section 3400 et seq., prescribes when a state court
has jurisdiction to make an initial custody determination. Family Code section 3402,
subdivision (g) provides with respect to a child less than six months of age that
jurisdiction rests in the state in which the child “lived... More...   $0 (01-05-2015 - CA)

PADUCAH, Ky. – A Fort Campbell, Kentucky, woman remains in federal custody today charged with felony murder related to the death of an infant, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

Sheilla E. Linares, was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 18, 2014. Linares was specifically charged with unlawfully killing an infant, T.R.C., Jr., committed in the perpetration of chi... More...   $0 (12-23-2014 - KY)

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEWART DANIEL HARBIN, 30, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison by United States District Judge Cathy Seibel for his 2012 reckless assault of a baby while on the grounds of West Point Military Academy (“West Point�). The sentencing followed HARBIN’S guilty plea on March 13, 2014.
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A biological father who does not qualify as a presumed father under Family Code section 76111 generally does not have statutory standing to block the adoption of his child unless he proves that it is in the child's best interests that the adoption not proceed. (Adoption of Kelsey S. (1992) 1 Cal.4th 816 (Kelsey S.); Adoption of Michael H. (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1043, 1052 (Michael H.).) Under Kelsey S.... More...   $0 (12-15-2014 - CA)

Dennis Gaskin, 28, of Moretown, Vermont to 20 months imprisonment for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Gaskin’s prior felony was a 2004 burglary conviction in Connecticut. Judge Reiss also sentenced him to three years supervised release, which follows his jail sentence. The firearms offense was subject to a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years.

This mat... More...   $0 (11-07-2014 - VT)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Loreena Ann Yazzie, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Durango, Colo., pled guilty in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a child abuse charge.

Yazzie was arrested on April 7, 2014, on a criminal complaint alleging an assault charge. According to the criminal complaint, Yazzie injured an infant who was a passenger in a vehicle she was drivi... More...   $0 (11-07-2014 - NM)

¶1 William Bolden is the putative father of a child (J.S.) born in 2011. The case before us on appeal is an adoption proceeding involving John and Jane Doe, the would-be adoptive parents of J.S. Bolden tried to intervene in and object to the Does‘ adoption of J.S. He was barred from doing so because he failed to preserve his legal rights as a father by filing a paternity affidavit within the ti... More...   $0 (11-04-2014 - UT)

When he was five years old, plaintiff Michael Lawrence fell from a window in his family's second story hotel room at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club and suffered serious head and brain injuries. Michael's parents, Nan Lawrence and Jeff Lawrence, filed a first amended complaint against La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, Inc. and La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club Partners, L.P. (defendants) seeking dam... More...   $0 (10-31-2014 - CA)