This case arises out of one of the largest residential arsons in Maryland history. See Michael E. Ruane & Joshua Partlow, No Motive Found in Charles Arsons; Eco-Terrorism, Racism Considered, Wash. Post, Dec. 8, 2004, at B1. Appellants (Homebuyers) contracted to purchase homes that were later damaged or destroyed due to the arsons. Following the arsons, the Homebuyers brought suit against a company... More...   $0 (04-15-2014 - MD)

In this defamation case, Christopher Comins [“Comins”], appeals a trial court order entering partial final judgment in favor of Appellee/Cross-Appellant, Matthew VanVoorhis [“VanVoorhis”], for Comins’s failure to comply with the presuit notice

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requirement of section 770.01, Florida Statutes (2008). Comins argues that the trial court erred because VanVoorhis is not a “me... More...   $0 (04-11-2014 - FL)

A broker represented both the buyer and the seller in a real property transaction through two different salespersons. The buyer brought several claims against the broker and the salesperson who listed the property for sale, including breach of fiduciary duty. The trial court granted a nonsuit on the claim for breach of fiduciary duty against the salesperson on the ground that the salesperson who l... More...   $0 (04-09-2014 - FL)

COMES NOW the Plaintiff Michael Simmons as Next of Kin to Phyllis Simmons, Deceased, and for his causes of action against Defendants Oak Hills Care Center, L.L,C., dlb/a Oak Hills Living Center, an Oklahoma limited liability company; OH Holdings, L.L.C., an Oklahoma limited liability company and John H. Stout, an individual, alleges and states as follows:

Common Allegations

1. Plaint... More...   $1500000 (04-07-2014 - OK)

Twylla Robinson appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Connie Mueller, as personal representative of the Estate of Hazel Marquardt. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

I.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

Marquardt (the landlord) owned a two-story home and rented the second level as an apartment to a tenant. The apartment’s bedroom contained acce... More...   $0 (04-01-2014 - ID)

Eugene Eldridge and Raymond Perry appeal the trial court’s judgment dismissing their premises-liability suit against Brazoria County. In four issues, Eldridge and Perry assert that the trial court erred by granting the county’s plea to

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the jurisdiction and complain that the trial court should have granted their motion to compel discovery related to jurisdictional issues.
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IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO THE OKLAHOMA UNIFORM JURY INSTRUCTIONS - CIVIL (SECOND).

ORDER ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO OKLAHOMA UNIFORM JURY INSTRUCTIONS - CIVIL (SECOND)

¶1 The Court has reviewed the recommendations of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Committee for Uniform Civil Jury Instructions that proposed Instructions should be adopted. The Court finds that the revisions should be adopt... More...   $0 (03-24-2014 - OK)

In this personal injury lawsuit, appellant Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC (“Oncor”) appeals a judgment rendered on a jury verdict against it and in favor of appellee Marco Murillo, an employee of Leo Gomez d/b/a AAA

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Demolishing (“AAA”). Murillo sustained serious personal injuries from electrocution while he worked for AAA at a demolition site in Dallas. The jury f... More...   $0 (03-21-2014 - TX)

Rick Reese owned a federally licensed firearms store in southern New Mexico and ran it with his wife, Terri, and two sons, Ryin and Remington. In August 2012, a jury convicted Rick, Terri, and Ryin under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 924(a)(1)(A) for aiding and abetting straw purchases of firearms from the store. Unbeknownst to them, however, at the time of trial the FBI was investigating one of the govern... More...   $0 (03-19-2014 - NM)

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing an AK-47 from a pawn shop.

Henry Lee Williams, 55, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple to 15 years in federal prison without parole. Williams was sentenced as an armed career criminal due to his p... More...   $0 (03-18-2014 - MO)

We address whether copyright registration of a collective work registered the component works within it.

Facts

This case was dismissed for failure to state a claim, so we assume for purposes of analysis that the facts were as pleaded in the complaint.

Alaska Stock, a stock photography agency, registered large numbers of photographs at a time, listing only some of the authors a... More...   $0 (03-18-2014 - AK)

James Kirby says the jury’s award against him is too much. True, he helped start and served as a director of StorageCraft, a computer software company. True, after a falling out with his colleagues he stole the computer source code on which the company’s products depend. True, he shared the source code with NetJapan, a rival company that quickly produced a competing software product much like ... More...   $0 (03-11-2014 - UT)

Beginning in 1971 this court decided three cases that together reversed decades of previous law and recognized, for the first time, that sellers or furnishers of alcoholic beverages could be liable for injuries proximately caused by those who imbibed. (Vesely v. Sager (1971) 5 Cal.3d 153; Bernhard v. Harrah’s Club (1976) 16 Cal.3d 313; Coulter v. Superior Court (1978) 21 Cal.3d 144.) In 1978, th... More...   $0 (02-24-2014 - CA)

¶1 Defendant/Appellant State of Oklahoma ex rel. Department of Public Safety (DPS) appeals the trial court's Order filed on April 10, 2013, denying its "motion to reconsider/vacate" the trial court's prior order. The trial court's prior order reversed DPS's implied consent revocation order revoking Plaintiff/Appellee Travis W. Andrews' (Andrews) driver's license for 180 days. Based on our review ... More...   $0 (02-20-2014 - OK)

In Westlake Community Hosp. v. Superior Court (1976) 17 Cal.3d 465 (Westlake), we held that, before a physician may bring a common law tort action directed against a hospital’s quasi-judicial decision to terminate the physician’s staff privileges, he or she must first exhaust all internal hospital procedures to reverse the decision, and, if this fails, must prevail in court in a mandamus proce... More...   $0 (02-20-2014 - CA)

This case requires us to determine when
a reviewing court properly may raise and decide an
issue that was not raised by the parties. The plaintiff,
Blumberg Associates Worldwide, Inc., brought this
action against the defendants, Brown and Brown of
Connecticut, Inc. (Brown & Brown), and Brown and
Brown, Inc. (parent company), alleging, inter alia, that
the defendants had... More...   $0 (02-17-2014 - CT)

{¶ 1} The issue in this case is whether a landlord owes the statutory duty under R.C. 5321.04(A)(3) to “[k]eep all common areas of the premises in a safe and sanitary condition” to a tenant’s guest properly on the premises. We hold

SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

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today that a landlord does owe to a tenant’s guest the statutory duties under R.C. 5321.04(A)(3) and that a breach... More...   $0 (02-12-2014 - OH)

On December 14, 2012, Appellee Rachel Trejo filed suit as Next Friend of her adult child, Rene Trejo, asserting that Hill Country Achievement Center breached the standard of care applicable to an adult day-care facility by failing to monitor or assist Rene Trejo as he exited a van after a facility outing. Hill Country originally denied the facility was a health care provider under the Texas Medica... More...   $0 (02-12-2014 - TX)

The State of Oklahoma charged Deandre Bethel with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM11, FELONY MURDER - FIRST DEGREE , in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7.

Count # 2. Count as Filed: RBDW, ROBBERY WITH A FIREARM , in violation of 21 O.S. 801.

Count # 3. Count as Filed: WE1, TRANSPORTING LOADED FIREARM IN MOTOR VEHICLE , in violation of 21 O.S. 1289.13.

Count # 4. ... More...   $0 (02-08-2014 - OK)

The United States of America charged Paris Byron Williams with felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) which provide:

§ 922. Unlawful acts
(a) It shall be unlawful—
(1) for any person—
(A) except a licensed importer, licensed
manufacturer, or licensed dealer, to engage
in the business of importing, manufact... More...   $0 (01-23-2014 - OK)

The United States of America charged Christopher David Wiegers, age 39, with:

Count: 1 Citation: 18:844H.F Offense Level: 4 18:844(i) Attempted Arson

Count: 2 Citation: 18:1952-7410.F Offense Level: 4 18:1952(a)(3) Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering Enterprise

Defendant admitted that he used a telephone and them "committed several act" to ad... More...   $0 (01-17-2014 - OK)

¶1 Plaintiff/Appellant Erin Bates (Plaintiff) seeks review of the trial court's order granting the motion to dismiss of Defendants/Appellees P.C. Cast, a/k/a Phyllis Cast, an individual, Kristin Cast, an individual, and St. Martin's Press, a Foreign Limited Liability Company (individually, by name, or, collectively, Defendants) on Plaintiff's claims to actual and punitive damages for defamation, ... More...   $0 (01-03-2014 - OK)

Petitioners Council Tree Investors, Inc., a communications investment firm, and Bethel Native Corporation, a small wireless carrier based in Alaska (collectively, “Council Tree”), seek our review of two orders issued by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “the Commission”)—the D Block Waiver Order (the “Waiver Order”) issued in 2007 and the Waiver Reconsideration Orde... More...   $0 (01-03-2014 - CO)

This appeal arises out of the trial court’s granting of special exceptions and subsequent dismissal with prejudice of certain causes of action asserted by appellant

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Jerilyn Ann Cerda (“Cerda”), as next friend of Noel Doe (“Noel”), against RJL Entertainment, Inc. d/b/a Club Cheetah (“Club Cheetah”). By one issue, Cerda asserts that the trial court erred in granting Clu... More...   $0 (12-12-2013 - TX)

Jeffrey C. Rowsey sued Frank N. Fore, Leigh Ann Fore, Blake A. Loveless, Peter M. Walter & Associates, Inc., Peter Walters, Katherine Sue Frame, William B. Ford, Brewer Russell, Inc, Environmental Hazard Controls Lab, Inc., Accurate Roofing, Inc. and Erickson Inspections, LLC on professional negligence, fraud, breach of contract and other theories.

1. Plaintiffs, Jeffrey C. and Lisa Rowse... More...   $0 (12-10-2013 - OK)