Los Angeles, CA - New York Man Convicted of Federal Fraud Charges Related to Multi-Million Dollar Pyramid Scheme that Targeted Chinese-Americans

A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a New York man who was a high-level promoter of a fraudulent company that solicited more than $200 million for a company that purported to market web-based children’s educational courses, but in

San Diego, CA - Father and Son Sentenced to Prison for Million-Dollar Fraud

A father and son who fraudulently won over $4 million of federal contracts using false financial statements and other lies were sentenced to prison today and ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution. The father also admitted to stealing more than half a million dollars from his consulting clients, and then

Congress enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) in 1938 in response to a national concern that the price of American development was the exploitation of an entire class of low-income workers. President Roosevelt, who pushed for fair labor legislation, famously declared: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide eno

Joe Whatley, Trustee of the wrongful death claimants' trust (WD Trust),appeals the district court's order finding that his claim under the CarmackAmendment, 49 U.S.C. § 11706, against Canadian Pacific Railway was untimely. Wereverse and remand for further proceedings.
I.BACKGROUND
On June 29, 2013, a train carrying crude oil left New Town, North Dakota,destined for an oil refinery near Sai

Mother is the biological mother of J.D.P., J.L.T., and T.K.C. Each child has a different father. In this appeal we are only concerned with the issue of the termination of Mother's rights. The record is extensive but a brief overview of the proceedings is helpful to an understanding of the issues on appeal. J.D.P., J.L.T., and T.K.C. were all adjudicated to be CINC in separate legal proceedings

On July 18, 2015, Saquisha Clark was with her friends Deirdre Dickerson, Artisha Dickerson, and Jodecie Jones. After leaving a bar, the four women were invited to a nearby establishment, the Hell's Lover's Motorcycle Club. Other than Deirdre, who was pregnant, the women had been drinking alcoholic beverages.

After staying a brief time inside the club, the women decided to leave and retu

More than twenty current and former
employees at the ConAgra microwave popcorn plant in
Rensselaer, Indiana sued various manufacturers and suppliers
of butter flavorings that contained the chemical diacetyl,
which if inhaled can cause a respiratory disease called “popcorn
lung.” All defendants were dismissed except Givaudan
Flavors Corporation (“Givaudan”), a long‐tim

Joe Ribakoff, a frequent attendee at meetings of the Long
Beach Transit Company Board of Directors, filled out a public
speaker’s card and spoke on agenda item 10 at the board’s
August 24, 2015 meeting for the three minutes allowed each
public speaker on an agenda item. When he rose to speak a
second time on the same agenda item, it was during the board’s
deliberation and v

In Commonwealth v. Perez, 477 Mass. 677, 688 (2017) (Perez I), we determined that the juvenile defendant, 2 Fernando Perez, received a sentence for his nonhomicide offenses that was presumptively disproportionate under art. 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights in that the time he would serve prior to parole eligibility exceeded that applicable to a juvenile convicted of murder. We th

} On August 31, 2017, Hernandez was indicted on seven counts of rape and
four counts of kidnapping. On September 14, 2017, Hernandez plead guilty to two
counts of sexual battery, one count of abduction and one count of gross sexual imposition.
Pursuant to the plea agreement, the remaining counts in the indictment were nolled and
the state stipulated that the abduction and g

Appellants and petitioners Richard Sander and the First Amendment Coalition
(Petitioners) challenge the trial court’s denial of their petition for writ of mandate seeking
to obtain information from the State Bar of California’s bar admissions database.
Specifically, Petitioners seek individually unidentifiable records for all applicants to the
California Bar Examination from 1972 t

On the evening of Saturday, January 7, 2006, Holly Michael, Becky Sittig,
Ashleigh Attig, and Harper hung out at Michael’s house in Fort Dodge beginning
at around 7:00 or 8:00 p.m.2 From then until the early morning hours of January
8, the group drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, and consumed cocaine. The group
left the residence to go to a nearby bar at which they arrived arou

Joe Ribakoff, a frequent attendee at meetings of the Long
Beach Transit Company Board of Directors, filled out a public
speaker’s card and spoke on agenda item 10 at the board’s
August 24, 2015 meeting for the three minutes allowed each
public speaker on an agenda item. When he rose to speak a
second time on the same agenda item, it was during the board’s
deliberation and v

Tulsa, OK - Catherine Lee Freeman sued Stanley Glanz, Vic Regalado, American Medical Response Ambulance Service, Inc. and Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. on civil rights violation theories.

Almost twenty years ago, a jury convicted Mr. Prade for the aggravated murder of
his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade. In 2013, a trial court found him actually innocent due, in large
part, to new DNA evidence. The court granted Mr. Prade’s motion for post-conviction relief, but
also found that he was entitled to a new trial “should [its] order granting post-conviction relief be
over

In the early morning of December 15, 2011, Mr. Spaulding shot and paralyzed
Patrick Griffin while he was leaving a house on Grant Street. Merely hours later, Mr. Spaulding
shot and killed both Erica Singleton and Ernie Thomas outside of the same house. Mr.
Spaulding was arrested the following day. After a jury trial, Mr. Spaulding was convicted of two
counts of aggravated mu

The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.
I
The pertinent facts are undisputed. In 1941, th

Wichita, KS - George Devora sued Ace American Insurance Company on a auto negligence insurance law theory.

The events that led to charges against Mukes began in September 2014. Mukes, age 20, and two of his sisters, Jasmine, 30, and S., 12, were living with his mother, an aunt, and an uncle. Early one morning, as Jasmine was walking to the bathroom, she noticed a shadow moving in the bedroom where S. was sleeping. Jasmine turned on the bedroom light and went in. She found her younger brother, Mukes, ly

Great American Chicken Corp, Inc. (“GAC”), which does business in
California as Kentucky Fried Chicken, appeals the district court’s remand of
plaintiff Celena King’s putative class action to Los Angeles Superior Court. The
action was originally filed in that court and removed to federal court by GAC
under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”). It is undisputed that removal
un

This appeal calls on us to consider the scope of federal
court abstention under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971).
In particular, we consider whether federal courts should
abstain from exercising jurisdiction over a constitutional
challenge to a state criminal statute while there are ongoing
state court protection order proceedings arguably related to
the challenge to t

Antonio Garcia-Lopez (“Garcia-Lopez”) appeals the district court’s denial of his Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea (“Motion to Withdraw”). He contends we should reverse because (1) he did not have an interpreter in his native tongue, Zapotecan, at his plea hearing and did not fully understand the proceedings, and (2) the Supreme Court’s decision in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), and

The Petitioner was convicted of second degree murder for the killing of his wife, Amy Lewis, “whose body was found inside the couple’s home on August 1, 2010.” State v. Christopher Lewis, No. M2013-00212-CCA-R3-CD, 2013 WL 6199278, at *1 (Tenn. 09/07/2018 -2 Crim. App. Nov. 27, 2013), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Apr. 10, 2014). The trial court imposed a fifteen-year sentence for the conviction. I

The defendant was employed in California by the plaintiff company, which is headquartered in Massachusetts. 2 As a condition of employment, he signed a confidentiality, nonsolicitation, and noncompetition agreement (agreement) that declared that the agreement would be governed by the laws of Massachusetts and that all lawsuits arising from the agreement would be brought in a Massachusetts co