Irma Yolanda Munoz Soto sued Union Pacific Railroad
Company and two of its employees, Scott King and Robert Finch
(collectively Union Pacific parties), for wrongful death (premises
liability and general negligence) after Soto’s 16-year-old daughter
was struck and killed by a freight train on an at-grade railroad
crossing in Santa Clarita. The court granted the Union Pacific
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Alexandria, LA - The United States of America charged Jon Michael Mauldwin with carjacking, felony firearms possession and kidnapping.

Jon Michael Mauldwin, 28, was sentenced today to 241 months in prison and five years of supervised release for a federal carjacking and related firearms charge stemming from the kidnapping of a Port Barre man, announced David C. Joseph, United States Attor... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - LA)

Milwaukee, WI - The United States of America charged Tedmund Blankschein with conspiracy to commit tax fraud.

Tedmund Blankschein (age: 51) was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit tax fraud. Blankschein was also ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution to the IRS, joint and several with his co-conspirator, Albert Go... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - WI)

Philadelphia, PA - The United States of America charged Hector Armando Kellum with conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers for generic drugs.

A fomer senior executive pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers for generic drugs.

According to court documents, from at least March 2013 until at least June 2015, He... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - PA)

Industrial Welfare Commission wage order No. 7-2001
(Wage Order 7) requires employers to pay their employees a
minimum wage for all “hours worked.” (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8,
§ 11070, subd. 4(B).) “Hours worked” is defined as “the time
during which an employee is subject to the control of an
employer, and includes all the time the employee is suffered or
permitted to work, w... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - CA)

Oklahoma City, OK - The United States of America charged Mickey Alvin Young with tax evasion.
'A federal grand jury indicted Young on December 4, 2018, on two counts of tax evasion. According to the indictment, Young operated Mickey Young Construction, a sole proprietorship that built concrete pits to hold millings at oil and gas well drilling sites. Evidence in the case showed that the busi... More...   $0 (02-10-2020 - OK)

Sacramento, CA - The United States of America charged Jai Vijay with:

CONSPIRACY TO PAY AND RECEIVE HEALTH CARE KICKBACKS

Jai Vijay, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the owners of home health care agencies and a hospice agency to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals.

According to court documents, Jai Vijay’s... More...   $0 (02-09-2020 - CA)

The Privette/Hooker doctrine limits the circumstances
in which the hirer of an independent contractor can be liable for
injuries to the contractor’s employees. (Privette v. Superior Court
(1993) 5 Cal.4th 689; Hooker v. Department of Transportation
(2002) 27 Cal.4th 198 (Hooker).) In a negligence action, the hirer
of an independent contractor may be liable to the contractor’sMore...   $0 (02-06-2020 - CA)

New York, NY - The United States of America charged Michael Madnaldi with filing false tax returns.

MICHAEL MAGNALDI, a former Pelham resident and an owner and operator of a Bronx-based tax preparation business, pled guilty to one count of aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns for tax years 2014 to 2017 and one count of subscribing to a false tax return for tax year 201... More...   $0 (02-04-2020 - NY)

Pittsburgh, PA - The United States of America charged John Martell with conspiracy to steal government property and uttering and possession false securities.

A former resident of Cheswick, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $37,590 in restitution to the United States Postal Service, o... More...   $0 (02-03-2020 - PA)

New York, NY - The United States of America charged Jason Glanis with fraud.

Jason Glanis pled guilty today for his participation in multiple fraudulent schemes. In particular, GALANIS pled guilty for his role in a scheme to manipulate the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova”), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and to defrauding the shareholder... More...   $0 (02-02-2020 - NY)

Springfield, MA - The United States of America charged Talal H. Soffan with fraud.

A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield in connection with various fraud schemes.

Talal H. Soffan, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to 30 months in prison, five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $573,624 in forfeiture. In... More...   $0 (02-01-2020 - MA)

Thimon’s Allegations
Thimon’s second amended complaint, the operative pleading (the complaint),
alleges: “On December 6, 2013 at approximately 7:30 in the morning, Destiny Thimon
was on her way to school, and reached the corner of Cherry Street and Redeker Place. As
Cherry Street at this intersection was not controlled by signals or stop signs, and
contained no pedestrian activ... More...   $0 (01-30-2020 - CA)

McAlester, OK - The families and estates of two men killed in a oil well blowout sued Red Mountain Energy, Crescent Consulting, Patterson UTI, and National Oilwell Varco on negligence and wrongful death theories.

Drilling contractor Patterson-UTI Energy and operator Red Mountain Energy admitted a tragic explosion that took place at the site of a drilling operation in Oklahoma, resulting i... More...   $0 (01-29-2020 - OK)