The City of Austin enacted a housing ordinance that prohibits landlords from refusing tenants who wish to pay their rent with federal housing vouchers. Shortly thereafter, the State of Texas enacted a statute that sought to invalidate the City’s ordinance and to allow landlords to continue to refuse federal vouchers. The City then sued Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, and the Texas Workforc... More...   $0 (12-05-2019 - TX)

This appeal raises an important issue concerning the investigative authority
of two committees of the United States House of Representatives and the
protection of privacy due the President of the United States suing in his individual,
not official, capacity with respect to financial records. The specific issue is the
lawfulness of three subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Fi... More...   $0 (12-04-2019 - NY)

In this interlocutory appeal, defendant Wilco Life Insurance Company (“Wilco”) appeals from the district court’s order granting plaintiff Vanessa Anderson’s motion to remand this putative class action back to a Georgia state court. In this case, Anderson, on behalf of herself and all those similarly situated, sued her former insurer, Wilco. Anderson alleges that Wilco improperly raised the cost of... More...   $0 (12-02-2019 - GA)

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Steven Michael Powers with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FSOD, FORCIBLE SODOMY, in violation of 21 O.S. 888 which provides:

A. Any person who forces another person to engage in the detestable and abominable crime against nature, pursuant to Section 886 of this title, upon conviction, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the ... More...   $0 (11-27-2019 - OK)

Columbus, OH - The United States of America charged Vincent Brocoli with cyberstalking.

A Maryland man offered a guilty plea today in U.S. District Court to cyberstalking victims in the Southern District of Ohio.

Vincent Brocoli, 32, of Essex, Md., was indicted by a federal grand jury in August.

According to court documents, from August 2016 until April 2019, Brocoli (al... More...   $0 (11-26-2019 - OH)

We must decide in this case whether portions of the
recently enacted Presidential Tax Transparency and
Accountability Act (Elec. Code, § 6880 et seq.) (the Act) conflict
with article II, section 5, subdivision (c) of the California
Constitution (article II, section 5(c)) and are therefore invalid.
At issue are the Act’s provisions that prohibit the Secretary of
State from p... More...   $0 (11-24-2019 - CA)

This is an appeal in a landlord–tenant class action from a trial court order
invalidating the broad releases of claims signed by approximately 26 tenant putative class
members and requiring the parties to meet and confer regarding a corrective notice for the
putative class after the court found said releases contained misleading and one-sided
information regarding the underlying la... More...   $0 (11-21-2019 - CA)

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, Glenn R.
Salter, Judge. Affirmed.
Garner Health Law and Craig B. Garner for Defendants and Appellants.
Rutan & Tucker and Robert O. Owen for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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Defendant New Method Wellness, Inc. (New Method), runs a drug
treatment facility and houses some of its patients in three residences (... More...   $0 (09-14-2019 - CA)