Plaintiff, cross-defendant and respondent David Morgan sued Daniel Pena and
defendant, cross-complainant and appellant Claudia Davidson for battery. Davidson
filed a cross-complaint against Morgan, alleging (1) assault, (2) battery, (3) conversion,
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and (4) invasion of privacy. The trial court found in favor of Morgan and awarded him
$209,000. Davidson raises three issues on

Consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution, may California exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a
nonresident in a paternity action where the mother and young child live in California and
conception occurred in another state? Mariana L. initiated a paternity and child support
action in San Diego County against David

Deborah Schlussel filed a request with the City of Dearborn Heights under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain booking photographs of a Muslim woman without her religious headscarf. The City denied Schlussel’s request, citing a privacy exception to FOIA. In response, Schlussel sued the City and various Dearborn Heights officials (collectively, “the City”), alleging that the City

Denver, Colorado personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellant Rhonda Nesbitt is a former massage therapy student who
attended a for-profit vocational school operated by Defendants-Appellees (�Steiner�).
Ms. Nesbitt, on behalf of a class of former students, brought suit claiming the students
qualified as employees of Steiner under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.

Plaintiffs appeal an order denying attorney’s fees and costs under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c). Because the district court did not abuse its discretion, we affirm.
Case: 18-60400 Document: 00514719491 Page: 1 Date Filed: 11/12/2018
No. 18-60400
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Regina Thomas and Pam Pilgrim sued in state court, challenging their terminations by Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company (“the com

In this legal malpractice action, appellant Robert Genisman alleges his former
attorneys, Hopkins Carley and Mark Heyl (collectively respondents), were negligent in
their representation of him in connection with the 2005 sale of his ownership interest in
two private companies (the Transaction). Genisman alleges the Transaction initially was
structured as a buyout and respondents re

In June 1993, appellant City of Pomona (Pomona) entered
into an agreement with non-party Regency Outdoor Advertising,
Inc. (Regency). Pursuant to that agreement, Regency erected
advertising billboards alongside several Pomona freeways.
Shortly thereafter, in November 1993, the citizens of Pomona
passed a ballot initiative, Proposition L (Prop. L), which
prohibited the const

Plaintiff Matthew N. Fulton, DDS, P.C., a dental practice in Linden, Michigan, brings this suit on behalf of itself and others similarly situated. Fulton alleges that it received a fax from Defendants in September 2016 that was an unsolicited advertisement under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227, but that failed to include the requisite opt-out provision. Arguing that t

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“The First Amendment guarantees to a religious institution the right to decide
matters affecting its ministers’ employment, free from the scrutiny and second-guessing
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of the civil courts.” (Schmoll v. Chapman University (1999) 70 Cal.App.4th 1434, 1436
(Schmoll).) The so-called ministerial exception is “a ‘nonstatutory, constitutionally
compelled’ exception to federal civil

This appeal presents the issue of whether the release of a movie will violate
the provisions of a consent order that settled a lawsuit between private parties.
This issue arises on an appeal by Defendants‐Appellants Cleopatra Records, Inc.
and Cleopatra Films (together, “Cleopatra”) from the September 13, 2017,
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judgment and permanent injunction of the District Court for