The defendant, Yonisley Garcia, was charged with aggravated animal
cruelty in violation of sections 828.12(2) and 777.011, Florida Statutes (2013).
The charges arose after the defendant was filmed slaughtering pigs to be sold for
meat. The defendant and his co-defendants allegedly shot the pigs, and if the pigs
did not immediately die, they drowned them in cauldrons.
Th

By indictment filed January 20, 2017, plaintiff-appellee, State of Ohio, charged Hart with one count of aggravated burglary in violation of R.C. 2911.11, a firstdegree felony; one count of robbery in violation of R.C. 2911.02, a second-degree felony; one count of robbery in violation of R.C. 2911.02, a third-degree felony; one count of theft in violation of R.C. 2913.02, a fifth-degree felony; on

Plaintiffs Jeffrey Parchman (“Parchman”) and Nancy Carlin (“Carlin”), individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, sued Defendants SLM Corporation (“SLM”), Navient Corporation (“Navient”), Navient Solutions Inc. f/k/a Sallie Mae, Inc. (“NSI”), and Sallie Mae Bank (“SMB”) for negligent and knowing/willful violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227.

On June 19, 2016, thirteen-year-old K.R. went to her friend C.H.’s house to
spend the night. Also at the home that evening were C.H.’s mother, Lindy, her
stepfather, Gibson, and five of C.H.’s nine siblings.1 K.R. had been to C.H.’s
home on other occasions and felt comfortable with C.H.’s family.
[3] K.R. and C.H. fell asleep around midnight in the same bed. At approximately

This is an emergency appeal from an extraordinary discovery order by the district court to a religious body. The court compelled document production of the group’s internal communications despite its status as a non-litigant and its voluntary furnishing of substantial discovery materials. Because the trial date looms, and with the benefit of full briefing from both parties, we elect to consolidate

In April 2015, an indictment was filed alleging that Appellant had intentionally or
knowingly caused the penetration of the anus of D.B.,4 a child younger than 14 years of
age, by Appellant’s sexual organ or finger (Count One), caused D.B.’s mouth to contact
Appellant’s sexual organ (Count Two), and caused his mouth to contact D.B.’s sexual
organ (Count Three). The indictment

S.A. appeals an order granting the petition of the
Public Guardian of the County of San Luis Obispo (Public
Guardian) for reappointment as the conservator of her person. A
jury found beyond a reasonable doubt that she continues to be
gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder. (Welf. & Inst.
Code,1 § 5000 et seq.; Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS Act).)
S.A. contends

S.A. appeals an order granting the petition of the
Public Guardian of the County of San Luis Obispo (Public
Guardian) for reappointment as the conservator of her person. A
jury found beyond a reasonable doubt that she continues to be
gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder. (Welf. & Inst.
Code,1 § 5000 et seq.; Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS Act).)
S.A. contends

When a Cricket Wireless employee began transferring files on Jamaul
Langham’s phone, she saw images of the apparent sexual assault of a minor by an
adult male. Jamaul allowed the employee to copy the images onto a USB drive and
call the police, but he kept the cell phone. After Sergeant Jones was assigned the
case, she viewed the files on the USB drive, which showed an adult ma

Sarah and Wambli live across the street from each other in Rapid City, South Dakota, in the tight-knit community of Lakota Homes. They also attended school together at Oglala Lakota College. Sarah and Wambli first started communicating in 2014 when Sarah began dating Wambli’s ex-boyfriend, Clay Ramsey. Sarah and Clay dated for only three months. [¶3.] On December 19, 2014, Wambli initiated a

In June 2013, a confidential informant (CI) told narcotics agents with the Clarksdale
Police Department that Jackson possessed a large amount of marijuana and that he was
selling it out of his home at 343-B Bolivar Street. Officers considered the CI reliable
because the informant had provided information in numerous prior cases and was
instrumental in helping to obtain prior convi

A Montgomery County jury convicted the Petitioner of two counts of facilitation of aggravated robbery, one count of aggravated burglary, one count of facilitation of theft
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of property over $500, and one count of aggravated sexual battery. On direct appeal, this court summarized the evidence presented at the Petitioner’s August 2012 trial as follows: [K.M.]1 testified t

We must decide whether the United States Department of the Navy improperly withheld documents related to the suicide of Admiral J.M. Boorda in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act.
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In 1996, United States Navy Admiral J.M. Boorda, then Chief of Naval Operations, committed suicide in Washington, D.C. He left two suicide notes at his home: one addressed to his sai

A.G. was born in October 2000 and the acts she alleged to have occurred
were in and around May 2014. At the time, A.G. lived in Dubuque near L.B., who
lived with her father, Michael Ball,1 and her mother, Beth Ball. A.G. testified she
and L.B. “were like sisters” and they hung out together almost every day.
During the time at issue, A.G. had a personal cell phone with ov

Bobby S. Dutta appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”) on his claim that State Farm violated provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (“FCRA”). The relevant FCRA provisions require a prospective employer to provide a job applicant with a copy of his consumer credit report, notice of his FCRA rights, and an o

Lecia L. Shorter appeals the district court’s partial grant of summary judgment in favor of the County of Los Angeles, Leroy Baca, Jacqueline Ortiz, and Alejandra Avalos (the County or County Defendants) on her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 inadequate medical care claim, and the denial of Shorter’s motion for a new trial on her § 1983 claim based on her classification as mentally ill, her conditions of confine

At the time of trial, Ginny was sixteen years of age.3 She explained that she was not
attending school and that the last grade she had completed had been the eighth grade. In July 2015,
which was the summer prior to what would have been Ginny’s freshman year in high school,
Ginny lived with her mother and “mainly hung out with family,” most notably, her grandmother.
On the e

Joshua Vasquez and Miguel Cardona are convicted child sex offenders who live in Chicago and are required to register as sex offenders and comply with state restrictions on where they may live. For example, a child sex offender may not knowingly live within 500 feet of
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a school, playground, or child-care center. 720 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/11-9.3(b-5), (b-10). A few years after Vas

Defendant M.B. appeals from the trial court’s denial of her
motion to dismiss under the “anti-SLAPP” statute (Code Civ.
Proc., § 425.16).1 Plaintiff and respondent L.G. is the former
nanny for M.B. and M.B.’s ex-husband, S.B.2 Respondent filed
this action against Appellant for defamation, invasion of privacy,
and intentional infliction of emotional distress based upon
state

Plaintiffs, Sarah Meyer and Martin Wooldridge, appeal from a general judgment dismissing their action against defendants Oregon State Lottery (the Lottery), Jill Goldsmith, Larry Niswender, Tessa Sugahara, John Kroger, and Craig Durbin.1 Plaintiffs assert five assignments of error. We reject plaintiffs’ fourth assignment of error without written discussion and write only to address their remaining

A father requested primary physical custody of his daughter, modifying the previous shared custody arrangement. The mother opposed the change, arguing there had not been a substantial change in circumstances. The superior court ordered a limited custody investigation to resolve a factual dispute related to the change in circumstances, promising a second hearing on the daughter’s best interests. Bu

The victims, Johnny Shivers; his wife, Chermaine Owens Shivers; their then sixteen-year-old son, Jonathan Shivers; and Ms. Shivers’s twenty-one-year-old son, Markel Owens, lived on Walker Road in Jackson, Tennessee.2 Around 9:30 p.m. on January 15, 2014, their neighbor, Joseph Mosely, was returning home with his family from church when he “saw some guys” standing around a white car. As he was wa

In 2014, a Superior Court jury convicted the defendant, John Fredette, of murder in the first degree on a theory of felony-murder, with aggravated kidnapping as the 2 predicate felony.1 The jury based their finding of aggravated kidnapping on the third paragraph of the current version of the kidnapping statute, which punishes a kidnapping committed "while armed with a dangerous weapon

In Vanderklok v. United States, 868 F.3d 189 (3d Cir.
2017), we declined to imply a Bivens cause of action against
airport screeners employed by the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) in part because they “typically are not
law enforcement officers and do not act as such.” Id. at 208.
We now must decide a related question that we anticipated, but
did not resolve,

Defendant, Juan Salinas, was arrested on February 1, 2015, along with
defendant, Lance Cowans. On March 12, 2015, the St. Charles Parish District
Attorney filed a bill of information charging defendant with possession with intent
to distribute marijuana in violation of La. R.S. 40:966(A)(2). On April 7, 2015,
defendant was arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty. On Febru