This case involves claims of tortious interference and the Real Estate License Act (“RELA�). In two issues, James Murphy, a licensed real estate broker, asserts the trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of Reed Williams because RELA does not preclude his tortious interference claims and he raised a fact issue on these claims. Because Williams is not a licensed broker and did

BOWLING GREEN, KY – The owner of a Warren County, Kentucky construction company was sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell to 24 months in prison and was ordered to pay $571,000 in restitution for tax evasion, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

Darrell Mathis, age 48, owner of Tri-State Construction

After Congress passed the
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of
1996 ("PRWORA"), narrowing the eligibility of non-citizens for
Medicaid and other federal benefits, the state of Maine responded
in 1997 by extending state-funded medical assistance benefits to
certain legal aliens rendered ineligible for Medicaid. In 2011,
the Maine Legislature ter

You cross continents and spend years trying to collect a judgment for your client. Late one Friday afternoon, the debtor’s lawyer walks into your office and hands you a cashier’s check for almost $13 million, covering the entire judgment and all accumulated interest. Do you accept the check or say, “no thank you, I need to make a motion for attorney fees first?� Put another way, is a bird

This intervention action arises out of a former debtor-creditor relationship concerning real property that was damaged by the San Diego County wildfires of 2007. The main action is a master complaint by damaged property owners, including a defaulting borrower, plaintiff, defendant-in-intervention and appellant Paul Thoryk (Appellant), who owned the property at the time of the fires. A year later,

Plaintiff and appellant Stephanie Rosen (Stephanie), along with her husband Michael Rosen (who is not a party to this appeal), obtained a significant judgment against defendants Christopher Cook (Cook) and LegacyQuest for breach of contract. Cook and LegacyQuest appealed and obtained a stay of execution by posting an undertaking by personal sureties. After this court dismissed Cook and LegacyQuest

Appellant, Marcus B. Patterson, individually, as independent administrator of the Estate of Diane Patterson, and as next friend of Danae Patterson and Daniel

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Patterson, challenges the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of appellee, Home State County Mutual Insurance Company (“Home State�), on his Stowers1 claim and his claim for breach of an insurance agreement. In t

EUGENE, OR – On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Mark Timothy Ellis, 38, of Oregon City, Oregon, for making a fraudulent claim to the United States and for filing a false lien against a federal employee to serve 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $311,459 in restitution.

According to court documen

Vacile and Stacy Marincasiu appeal the trial court’s judgment granting Stephen C. Drilling a first lien on certain real property located at 1702 Egret Lane, Southlake, Texas, 76092 (hereinafter “the Southlake Property�); allowing him to foreclose on the property; and clearing title to the land. On appeal, the Marincasius challenge the factual and legal sufficiency of the trial court’s find

In this interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction, Appellant Marta Carrejo Martinez claims the trial court abused its discretion by excluding her from real property located at 2109 Flemming Drive, Fort Worth, Texas, (the Property) and by enjoining her from coming within 300 feet of the Property. We affirm the trial court’s temporary injunction.

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This case involves two questions. Can an abstract of judgment create a valid lien on a home jointly managed as community property if the judgment is based on the premarital debt of only one spouse? If so, what is the effect of a homestead designation after a divorce when the property ceases to be held in community? The trial court ruled in favor of the current homeowner, declaring that the judgmen

COMES NOW the Plaintiff, Misty Hawkins, and for her cause of action against the Defendant, Gary Nard, alleges and states:

1. On or about October 5, 2010, at or near S.W. 119th St. and May Ave., Oklahoma City, Cleveland County, State of Oklahoma, Defendant, Gary Nard, negligently drove a motor vehicle causing a collision with a vehicle operated by Plaintiff, Misty Hawkins.

2. That at

Plaintiff Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company (“Mill Creek�), for its causes of action against the above-referenced Defendants, states:

1. Mill Creek is an Oklahoma corporation that conducts business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

2. Defendant Epic Outdoors, LLC is an Oklahoma limited liability company which does business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma as Epic Construction (“Epic�).

A to Z Properties, Inc., appeals a circuit court order finding it liable to Fairway Palms II Condominium Association (“Association�) for $16,291.61 in unpaid assessments on a condominium unit that appellant acquired by a tax deed. Because the unpaid assessments did not survive the issuance of the tax deed, we reverse.

In October 2010, appellant purchased a condominium unit for $21,100 a

We quash the decision of the court below denying any fee award to a discharged attorney who sought to enforce a charging lien for $114,250 in fees— an amount stipulated as reasonable—following a settlement post-dating a $19,000,000 jury award. This order, while acknowledging that the petitioner/lawyer is “a fine lawyer� who conducted the initial investigation in this case and conducted “

1. Plaintiff, Tina Long, is the biological mother Christopher Morris, a minor.

2. Defendant, Childcare Network, Inc. #204, d/b/a Childcare Network 204, d/bla Grand Boulevard Early Education and Learning Center (hereinafter ‘Defendant� or “Childcare Network�), located at 1050 SW 36tFi Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a business registered in Oklahoma and engages in business as a

In this appeal from the tax court, we consider whether the Estate of Gertrude Saunders (the Estate) properly claimed a $30 million deduction on its estate tax return for a lawsuit pending at the time of Gertrude Saunders’ death (the Stonehill Claim, or the Claim), even though the suit ultimately settled for a smaller sum. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue (the Commissioner) disallowed the $30

A local businessman and former commercial real estate agent, who pled guilty last year to a variety of federal fraud charges, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Michael Wayne Harding, 59, of Keswick, Va., previously waived his right to be indicted and entered a plea of guilty to one count of wire fraud and one cou

COMES NOWAILEEN KARDAWAY, Plaintiff above named, and forcause of action against the Defendant alleges and states as follows:

Parties, Jurisdiction & Venue

Plaintiff is a resident of Cleveland County, Oklahoma. Defendant is a resident of Del City, O:lahoma. This is an action for property damage and personal injuries resulting front an automobile collision which occurred on East Ma

Plaintiff alleges and states:

1. On February 5,2011, theit was a collision in Cleveland Counts Oklahoma, involving a vehicle driven by Defendant Chantal Glacken and a vehicle driven by Plaintiff.

2. Said collision was caused by Defendant Chantal Glacken’s negligence of following too closely and inattentive driving, causing Plaintiff to suffer damages in an amount not yet determined

Under Texas law, a debtor’s homestead is permanently exempted from the bankruptcy estate, whereas proceeds from the sale of a homestead are only exempted for six months. Debtor Mark Alan Frost (“Frost�) challenges the district court’s determination that proceeds from the post-certification sale of an exempted homestead revert to the estate if not reinvested within six months, arguing that

[¶1] Roger Sundsbak, George Bitz and Northern Livestock Auction (collectively "Northern Livestock") appeal a district court judgment granting Craig T. Anderson's motion for summary judgment and denying Northern Livestock's motion to amend their counterclaim. Anderson is First Western Bank & Trust's (the "Bank") assignee. Northern Livestock argues the district court erred as a matter of law by ent

Country Contractors, Inc. (“Countryâ€�) entered into a contract to provide excavation services for A Westside Storage of Indianapolis, Inc. (“Westsideâ€�). Country subcontracted out a substantial portion of the work and eventually left the worksite without completing the job. Westside filed a breach of contract action against Country and its two shareholders, Stephen Songer and Jahn Songer (â€

An ex-wife appeals the trial court’s judgment notwithstanding the verdict, asserting that residential property was not the ex-husband’s homestead and that the property was, consequently, subject to her claims against the ex-husband for fraudulent conveyance of the property under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. We affirm. 2 FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Julia Almanza and Johnny Salas w

Candice Giddens, Diamond Hines and Carla Giddens sued Mark George, Joe Cooper Ford of Shawnee, LLC d.b.a Joe Cooper Shawnee Ford claiming:

COMES NOW the Plaintiffs, Candice Giddens, Diamond Hines, and Karla Giddens, and for their causes of action against the Defendants, Mark George and Joe Cooper Ford of Shawnee, LLC, DBA Joe Cooper Shawnee Ford, alleges and states:

1. On November 23