Thirty years ago, in Harrison v. Montgomery County Bd. of Educ., 295 Md. 442, 444, 456 A.2d 894 (1983), this Court issued a writ of certiorari to decide “whether the common law doctrine of contributory negligence should be judicially abrogated in Maryland and the doctrine of comparative negligence adopted in its place as the rule governing trial of negligence actions in this State.â€� In a compr... More...   $0 (07-09-2013 - MD)

RBD Construction Co. sued Stone Creations, LLC, Hector Del Bosque, Performance Roofing, Inc., dba A-Best Roofing and Ron Demaree on negligence theories and breach of contract theories claiming:

1. R.B.D. Construction is an Oklahoma corporation with its principal place of business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

2. The original Petition in this Case was filed October 21, 2011.

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Ronald Reynolds, Jr., as surviving spouse and personal representative of the estate of Rebecca Kathleen Reynolds, deceased and for and on behalf of William Hugh Reynolds, sued Brandon H. Kilgore, Bryan Ashley Orme, M.D., Edmond General Surgery, LLC, Affiliated Anesthesiologists, LLC, and Mercy Hospital on medical negligence theories (medical malpractice) claiming:

1. Plaintiffs Ronald Rey... More...   $0 (06-23-2013 - OK)

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barry Salman, J.), entered April 13, 2012, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment dismissing the complaint.

Contrary to plaintiffs' contention, defen... More...   $0 (06-20-2013 - NY)

Our opinion and judgment dated April 19, 2013, are withdrawn, and this opinion is substituted in their place.

In June 2011, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed a petition seeking custody of father J.M. and mother A.G.’s children, T.M. and A.M., based on allegations that the children were being neglected and that T.M. was being abused. The Department also sought ... More...   $0 (06-11-2013 - TX)

Tianna Benson and the Donelle Jones Special Needs Irrevocable Trust sued Dr. Vernon Smith, D.O., Lena F. Buchanan, D.O., Julies Kramer, R.N. and Neonatal Associates of Tulsa, Inc. on medical negligence (medical malpractice) and respondeat superior theories.

This is a medical malpractice action involving a prematurely born infant, Donelle Jones (“Baby Jonesâ€�), cared for at the Tulsa Re... More...   $1 (06-01-2013 - OK)

In this interlocutory appeal, appellants challenge the trial court’s orders denying their motions to dismiss appellees’ health care liability claims for failure to file an expert report complying with the requirements of chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE § 51.014(a)(9) (West Supp. 2012) (permitting interlocutory appeal from denial of all... More...   $0 (05-31-2013 - TX)

Michael Gray sued the City of Galveston claiming a violation of the Texas Whistleblower Act. The Act waives governmental immunity if a governmental entity takes adverse personnel action against a public employee who in good faith reports to an appropriate law enforcement authority a violation of law by another public employee. See TEX. GOV‘T CODE ANN. §§ 554.002, 554.0035 (West 2012). The City... More...   $0 (05-21-2013 - TX)

The State of Oklahoma charged Michael Anthony McGregor, III with DUI Alcohol - second offense in violation of 47 O.S. 11-902; child endangerment in violation of 21 O.S. 852.1; driving under suspension in violation of 47 O.S. 6-303; driving without headlights in violation of 47 O.S. 12-203; failure to carry insurance / security verification form in violation of 47 O.S. 7-606; failure to use child r... More...   $0 (05-20-2013 - OK)

This case is unusual, in part, because of the incentives established under the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (“NICAâ€�) statute, sections 766.301-316, Florida Statutes, which sets forth an administrative process for infants who sustain severe birth-related neurological injuries to establish their eligibility for NICA plan benefits. Emma Johnston suffered perm... More...   $0 (05-17-2013 - FL)

In this case, we consider a certified question concerning the award of compensation under the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan (the Plan). We have for review the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Samples v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological, 40 So. 3d 18 (Fla. 5th DCA 2010). The Fifth District upheld the constitutionality of section 766.31(1)(b)1, Florid... More...   $100000 (05-16-2013 - FL)

This is an appeal from an order terminating the parental rights of B.C.T.’s parents. B.C.T.’s father appeals. We affirm.

Issues

B.C.T.’s father, Appellant, has filed a pro se brief in which he presents three issues for review. In the first issue, Appellant contends that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to appoint an attorney ad litem to represent Appellant, ther... More...   $0 (05-09-2013 - TX)

A jury found Freddie Wallace guilty of one count of production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and one count of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). The district court1 sentenced Wallace to 265 months’ imprisonment on the production of child pornography count and a concurrent 120 months’ imprisonment on the possession of child po... More...   $0 (04-25-2013 - AR)

Defendant Mildred Delgado was convicted of robbery (Pen. Code, § 211)1 and kidnapping for purposes of robbery (§ 209, subd. (b)(1)), on evidence from which a jury could have determined an accomplice, rather than defendant, personally performed the act of asportation necessary to the offense of kidnapping. He contends the trial court erred in failing to instruct, sua sponte, on the law of accompl... More...   $0 (04-04-2013 - CA)

In August 2000, an Oklahoma state court jury convicted Clayton Lockett of 19 counts, including burglary, assault, rape, and first degree murder. He was sentenced to 2,285 years and 90 days of imprisonment for his non-capital crimes and sentenced to death for his murder conviction. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (“OCCAâ€�) affirmed Mr. Lockett’s convictions and sentence and later denied... More...   $0 (04-01-2013 - OK)

American Atheists, Inc. sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation/National September 11 Memorial And Museum claiming that the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found in the World Trade Center's rubble constituted an endorsement of Christianity, diminishing the contributions of non-Christian rescuers in violation of the Constitution.
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This certiorari proceeding requires us to address the agricultural exemption from county zoning. See Iowa Code § 335.2 (2011). The property owners who brought this action had a lengthy dispute with Linn County over whether houses they had built were subject to the county’s zoning and subdivision ordinances. We are asked to review two separate decisions by the Linn County Board of Adjustment—i... More...   $0 (03-29-2013 - IA)

Nathaniel Benjamin raises four issues on appeal from the District Court‘s judgment of conviction and sentence. First, Benjamin argues that there was insufficient evidence supporting one of his felon-in-possession convictions and his conviction for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine base. Second, Benjamin contends that if the evidence was sufficient to convict him of gun p... More...   $0 (03-26-2013 - PA)

Defendant - Appellant Erik D. Jenkins (“Jenkins�) appeals his conviction
and sentence for various offenses concerning child pornography. Jenkins argues
that the district court erred in applying a two-level sentence enhancement
pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b)(1). Jenkins also argues that his sentence of
twenty years imprisonment is substantively unreasonable. For the following<... More...   $0 (03-20-2013 - TX)

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Paul Barber and his law firm, Barber & Borg, L.L.C. (Barber), were the attorneys for Ellen Sam. Barber filed a lawsuit against numerous defendants for injuries Sam sustained when her car was struck from behind on Interstate 40 (I-40). Barber also represented Sam in her capacity as the personal representative of the estates of her daughter and granddaughter, both of whom died from inju... More...   $0 (03-11-2013 - NM)

On the second day after the birth of their third child, appellants Angelica Mitchell Moore and husband Kevin Alexander Moore executed affidavits relinquishing their parental rights to the infant and designating as managing conservators appellees Donna M. Brown and husband Alvin Benard Brown.1 Relying on these affidavits, the Browns obtained an order from the district court terminating the Mooresâ€... More...   $0 (02-21-2013 - TX)

After a joint trial in Superior Court, a jury convicted the defendant of reckless endangerment of a child in violation of G.L. c. 265, § 13L, and sentenced her to a two-year term of probation. [FN1] On appeal, the defendant argues that (1) the evidence was insufficient to sustain her conviction; (2) the jury instructions were flawed; (3) medical records admitted at trial improperly included prior... More...   $0 (02-06-2013 - MA)

Michael Argenyi, a young man with a serious hearing impairment, moved from Seattle to Omaha, Nebraska to attend medical school at Creighton University. Before enrolling Argenyi requested specific accommodations from Creighton for his hearing impairment. They were denied, but Argenyi repeatedly renewed them during his first two years at Creighton Medical School. He explained that without these acco... More...   $0 (01-16-2013 - NE)

Appellees, Ada Shorts and Sterling Drisdale, Individually and as Representatives of the Estate of Ja’Marean J. Shorts Drisdale, Deceased, sued appellant, Adaiah Ezekiel, M.D., for medical malpractice. Dr. Ezekiel filed a motion to dismiss appellees’ suit for failure to file an expert report within the 120th day of filing suit. The trial court denied Dr. Ezekiel’s motion to dismiss. We revers... More...   $0 (01-13-2013 - TX)

[¶1] Appellant, Jeffrey Arnott (Father), challenges the district court’s order denying his petition for modification of the parties’ divorce decree, which granted primary physical custody of the parties’ two daughters to Appellee, Paula (“Polly�) Arnott (Mother).

Father sought modification of custody after Mother gave notice of her intention to relocate to Virginia with the child... More...   $0 (12-28-2012 - WY)