The California Military Whistleblower Protection Act, Military and
Veterans Code section 56 (Section 56), affords certain rights and protections to service
members of the California National Guard who face actual or threatened adverse
personnel actions in retaliation for reporting waste, fraud, abuse of authority, violation of
law, or threats to the public health and safety. A serv

A surety posted a $50,000 bail bond for a misdemeanor defendant.
Throughout the case, defendant’s attorney appeared on his behalf: “In all cases in which
the accused is charged with a misdemeanor only, he or she may appear by counsel
only . . . .” (Pen. Code, § 977, subd. (a)(1).)1 The trial court granted defendant
probation, continued several probation violation hearings, and even

The facts material to our analysis are straightforward. In Kinder's petition for our review of the Court of Appeals' decision under K.S.A. 20-3018(b), he agrees with the panel's recitation as follows:

"On July 29, 2013, the State charged Kinder with one count of mistreatment of a dependent adult, a severity level 8 person felony. According to the complaint, Kinder had been acting as a c

On January 17, 2014, while traveling on Interstate-10, near the Williams
Boulevard and Loyola Street exits in Kenner, Louisiana, Ms. Deshotel’s vehicle
rear-ended Mr. Chanthasalo’s truck (“Accident No. 1”). After the collision, Mr.
Chanthasalo and Ms. Deshotel pulled their respective vehicles onto the shoulder of
the road to assess property damages and report the accident to t

Officer Roger Jones fatally shot Kenneth Smith, who was
then age 20. A jury awarded Smith’s estate $5,500,000, which the district court reduced to
$4,000,000. Jones appeals, arguing, among other things, that Smith’s claims are time-barred and
that the district court made various errors during the trial. We reject his arguments and affirm.
I.
In the early morning of March 10, 20

On the night of June 23, 2010, Fairley was at his home in Evansville with
Summer Jones (“Jones”). Jones had previously been in a relationship with
Fairley, and the two were in bed. At some point late that night or early the next
morning, someone began to pound on the door and walls of Fairley’s home.
Jones figured that the person causing the commotion was Fairley’s ex
girlf

Tulsa, OK - Defendant Sentenced to Ten Years In Prison for Role in Fatal DUI Crash

The State of Oklahoma charged Timothy Daniel Harris, age 75, with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM2, MANSLAUGHTER - 1ST DEGREE - AUTOMOBILE- DUI, in violation of 21 O.S. 711
Date of Offense: 10/15/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
HARRIS, TIMOTHY DANIEL Disposed: CONVICTION,

New York, NY Plaintiff‐appellant Wandering Dago, Inc., (“WD”) operates a food truck and
32 brands itself and the food it sells with language generally viewed as ethnic slurs.
33 Defendants‐appellees are officials within the New York State Office of General Services
* Judge Carol Bagley Amon, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
New York, sitti

New York, NY - Turkish Banker Convicted Of Conspiring To Evade U.S. Sanctions Against Iran And Other Offenses
Unanimous Manhattan Jury Finds That the Defendant Also Used His Position at Turkish Bank to Facilitate Access to the U.S. Financial System and to Conceal International Financial Transactions for Iranian Entities in Violation of U.S. Sanctions

MEHMET HAKAN ATILLA was found guil

Plaintiff and appellant, J. Brent Arave, brought several claims under the California
Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) (Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.) against his
former employers, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (Merrill Lynch), Bank of
America (BoA), his supervisor Joseph Holsinger, and a human resources supervisor,
Katherine Anderson (collectively, defendants). He

The underlying cause of action in this appeal stems from a business dispute among Juan Acra, Giovanni Bonaudo, and Bonaudo’s wife, Maria Jilma Maldonado. The dispute concerns services Bonaudo provided Acra and the corporate appellants, businesses controlled by Acra. The final judgment awards Giovanni Bonaudo, in relevant part, $403,488.72 in compensatory damages. The judgment is against appellants

Vialpando was shot nine times while sitting in a vehicle with his spouse and
3 three children and died from the injuries he sustained. The State charged Ramirez
4 with one count of first-degree murder, NMSA 1978, § 30-2-1(A)(1) (1994); one count
5 of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, NMSA 1978, § 30-28-2 (1979), § 30-2
6 1(A)(1); one count of shooting at or from a motor ve

The facts of this case are relatively straightforward and, in large measure, undisputed. Ms. Riddle deposited a $4,000 check in a joint account that she held with her son, Dalton. The check was written on the account of her mother-in-law, and was made payable to Dalton Riddle. The signature on the check indicated that it had been executed by the mother-in-law.
[¶4] The mother-in-law learne

Mr. McLaren owned 57 cats. He and his girlfriend, Jennifer Evans, referred to the cats as their “kids” or “the kid.” On March 10, 2014, one of Mr. McLaren’s exotic Savannah kittens, Cameo, was sick, so he and Ms. Evans took it to a veterinary clinic for treatment. Mr. McLaren testified that he had injected “somewhere between a quarter and a third of a gram” of methamphetamine right before he no

10 Amritpal Singh appeals from Judge Furman’s dismissal of his complaint
11 for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. The complaint, relying on the
12 Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., challenged the
13 denial by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) of
14 jurisdiction over Singh’s application for an adjustment of his immigratio

Holt was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the death of Kenton Shoffner. The facts of the underlying conviction in this case are fully documented in State v. Holt, 285 Kan. 760, 176 P.3d 239
2

(2008), and we need not repeat them here. Following his direct appeal, Holt timely filed a pro se K.S.A. 60-1507 motion alleging th

Appellant was charged by indictment with criminal mischief, burglary of a building, and two counts of theft of copper. He pleaded “not guilty,” and the matter proceeded to a bench trial. At trial, the evidence showed that a break-in occurred at the clubhouse of the Pines Gun Club in Lufkin. A television was stolen from the clubhouse. Copper cables were removed from one of the target machines

Appellant was charged by indictment with aggravated robbery. He pleaded “not guilty” and the matter proceeded to a jury trial. During voir dire, the State sought to exercise a peremptory strike against Venire Member Number 21, who is African American. Appellant objected to this strike pursuant to Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 86, 106 S. Ct. 1712, 1717, 90 L. Ed. 2d 69 (1986).1 The State res

Appellant was charged by indictment with capital murder and pleaded “not guilty.” The matter proceeded to a jury trial. The jury was instructed that Appellant could be found “guilty” of capital murder either as the primary actor, an accomplice, or as a conspirator. Ultimately, the jury found Appellant “guilty” as charged. Thereafter, the trial court sentenced Appellant to imprisonment for life

This is an appeal from a take-nothing judgment entered after a jury trial in a medical malpractice case. Carolyn Jackson sued Daniel Garber Stroud, M.D., over the death of her husband, which occurred shortly after Stroud performed surgery
2
on him. During voir dire, Stroud, who is Caucasian, used three of his peremptory strikes to remove all black panelists from the panel of potential juro

Charlotte, NC - EmCare, Inc. to Pay $29.8 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

The Department of Justice on December 19, 2017 announced a settlement with Dallas based EmCare, Inc. a subdivision of Envision Healthcare Corporation that provides physicians to hospitals to staff their Emergency Departments (EDs). EmCare agreed to pay $29.8 million to resolve claims that, from 2008

Columbia, SC - Illegal Alien Sentenced to 15 Months in Federal Prison

Olvin Humberto Matute-Lopez, a/k/a “Humberto Lopez-Barralaga,” a/k/a “Fernando Dolero-Juarez,” a/k/a “Juan Carlos Matute,” a/k/a “Juan Lopez,” a/k/a “Humberto Lopez,” age 36, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Illegal Re-entry into the United States after Dep

Rock Island, IL - Geneseo Man Sentenced to Eight Months in Prison for Stolen Valor Offenses

U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow today ordered William R. Jones, 68, of Geneseo, Ill., to serve eight months in federal prison for theft of government funds and making false statements about his military service to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Jones was also ordered to pay a fine of $

After a jury trial, Jenkins was found guilty and sentenced to twenty-five years of
imprisonment. On appeal, he argues the trial court did not have jurisdiction over his case because
the charging instrument was fatally defective. According to Jenkins, the charging instrument failed
to conform to the Texas Constitution’s definition of an indictment because it did not name “a
pers

In the early morning of March 7, 2014, a delivery driver discovered the bodies
of Brittney Cosby, Cosby�s daughter, and Crystal Jackson, Brittney�s girlfriend,
behind a convenience store dumpster on the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County,
Texas. The convenience store is approximately one mile from the ferry that connects
the Bolivar Peninsula to Galveston Island. The vic