Plaintiff, Mary Anna Whitehall, was a social worker for the San Bernardino
County Children and Family Services (CFS or the County) who sought legal advice
pertaining to any liability she might have for submitting misleading information and
doctored photographs to the juvenile court at the direction of her superiors. Her counsel
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prepared a filing for the juvenile court to app

Baker was charged with eight counts: count I, first
degree murder, a Class IA felony, for the killing of Richey;
count II, use of a firearm to commit a felony, a Class IC felony;
count III, first degree murder, a Class IA felony, for the killing
of Johnson; count IV, use of a firearm to commit a felony,
a Class IC felony; count V, attempted first degree murder,
a Class II f

Lucy Munoz testified that on February 15, 2013, she and her threeyear-old son were living with her parents and younger brother at their home in Jackson. Lucy recalled that she had gone home in the early afternoon for her lunch break that day. When she pulled into the driveway, Lucy noticed that no one appeared to be home but that the garage door “was probably one-fourth open.” Lucy opened the g

Oklahoma City, OK - Former Republican State Senator Pleads Guilty To Sex Trafficking

The United States of American charged Ralph Lee Shortey, age 35, with child sex trafficking for offering to pay a 17-year-old boy for sexual "stuff" in March of 2017.

Shortely was noteworthy for his right wing religiously inspired legislative positions.

Artur Hefczyc appeals from an order denying his motion for class certification in
his lawsuit against Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego (Rady). On behalf of a proposed
class, Hefczyc seeks declaratory relief to establish that Rady's form contract, signed by
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patients or guarantors of patients who receive emergency room care, authorizes Rady to
charge only for the reasonable

Tracy Conley was ensnared in a now familiar government set up in which a government ac-tor, pretending to be a criminal, presents the defendant with an opportunity to be part of a robbery of an illegal drug stash house. The stash house is fictional, of course, and so the government decides which and what quantity of drugs it will have (in this case, fifty kilograms of cocaine) and how high or low

Dallas, TX - Two North Texas men sentenced for roles in a $6.4 million diamond investment fraud scheme

Craig Allen Otteson, 65, of McKinney, Texas, and Jay Bruce Heimburger, 59, of Dallas, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and were sentenced for their roles in a diamond investment scheme.

Otteson and Heimburger both pleaded guilty in July 2017

* Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 8.1110, this opinion is certified for
publication with the exception of part III.C.

McMillin Management Services, L.P. and Imperial Valley Residential Valley
Residential Builders, L.P. (collectively "McMillin")1 filed this action against numerous
insurance companies, including respondents Lexington Insurance Company (Lexington)

In the early morning hours of November 6, 2009, Henry Vargas was shot outside Club
Platinum, a nightclub on Broad Street in Providence; and, tragically, he died as a result. His
girlfriend, Carmelina Bueno, was an eyewitness to that shooting.

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On January 15, 2010, a Providence County grand jury indicted defendant on two counts:
Count One, the first-

Substitute information charging the defendant with the crime of assault in the third degree, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of New Britain, geographical area number fifteen, where the defendant was presented to the court, Baldini, J., on a plea of guilty; judgment of guilty; thereafter, the court, Keegan, J., granted the state’s motion to dismiss the defendant’s petition fo

Respondent Dr. Tuan Nguyen (“Physician”) filed a third-party complaint
against Petitioner Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation (the “Hospital”) and
alleged it discriminated and retaliated against him for reporting patient safety concerns;
he alleged violations of the West Virginia Patient Safety Act (the “Act”),1 retaliatory
discharge, and intentional infliction of emotional

This appeal concerns a dispute between the West Virginia State Lottery, the
Lottery Commission, the Lottery Director,1 (collectively, the State Lottery) and certain
entities (Permit Holders) who were issued permits to operate limited video lottery game
terminals (LVL terminals). The dispute arose after the State Lottery instructed the Permit
Holders that they would be required to u

Eighteen years after the murder of Louinas Lucas, a Miami grocery store
owner, Joseph Phelps was convicted of first degree murder and attempted robbery
with a firearm. Louinas Lucas had closed his store for the night and was carrying
home the day’s receipts when he was shot in his front yard during an armed
robbery. In 2011, an accomplice to the murder, Donald Merelus, who had

During the early morning hours of April 18, 2013, four people were murdered in
the basement of an apartment on Kimlyn Circle in Akron. R.R., one of the victims, resided at the
apartment and had received a sizeable amount of heroin the night before his murder. The three
other victims found alongside him were K.W., his girlfriend; M.N., a female friend of K.W.; and
K.D., a mal

} On December 1, 2015, a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted Weakley on
34 counts of a 45-count indictment for his role in the fraudulent credit scheme as follows:
• one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity (Count 1);

• two counts of conspiracy (Counts 2 and 3);

• 13 counts of identity fraud (Counts 4, 5, 13, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29, 31, 35, 39, 41 and

New York, NY - Former Chief Financial Officer Of American Realty Capital Partners Sentenced For Accounting Fraud

Brian Block, the former chief financial officer of the publicly traded real estate investment trust (“REIT”) formerly known as American Realty Capital Partners (“ARCP”), was sentenced to 18 months in prison for inflating a key metric used to evaluate the financial performance o

Around two in the morning, undercover officers saw Hamilton’s Malibu
park three feet from the curb outside a Sioux City house they suspected of
hosting illicit drug activity. The Malibu’s four occupants went inside the house for
about fifteen minutes. The undercover officers, driving an unmarked car,
followed the Malibu when it pulled away. Officer Dan Wagner recalled Hamilt

Boston, MA - Member of Lawrence Kidnapping Crew Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

A member of a Lawrence-based kidnapping crew was sentenced on November 9, 2017 in federal court in Boston for his role in a 2012 kidnapping.

Thomas Wallace, 29, of Raymond, N.H., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 13 years in prison and three years of supervised release.

This case presents the issue whether a superior court can impose a hefty daily
monetary sanction on a party who steadfastly refuses to comply with a discovery order.
Here, the court ordered Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
(Watchtower) to produce documents responsive to a specific request for production. Per
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the court's order, the documents would be redac

Defendant committed the aggravated rape and the sexual battery of Z.V., a
child under the age of thirteen.2 The victim was the daughter of Defendant’s
friends, his next door neighbors.
ERRORS PATENT and PRO SE ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR NUMBER THREE:

In accordance with La.Code Crim.P. art. 920, all appeals are reviewed by
this court for errors patent on the face of the rec

Peter Belmont, a resident of Wyandotte County, habitually picked up young African-American men in Kansas City, Missouri. Belmont had befriended several men this way. They would do odd jobs and yard work at his home. They would help him with his dogs. Three men became long-term friends: Michael Griffin, Raymond Miller, and Quincy Coleman. Some men Belmont would pick up and take back to his home, an

¶1 The oil and gas industry is a major economic force in the Uintah Basin. This industry relies, to some extent, on access to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation of the Ute Indian Tribe. The plaintiffs allege that, through its ability to restrict the industry’s access to tribal lands, the tribe has held hostage the economy of the non-Indian population.
¶2 Ryan Harvey, a plaintiff and part owner o

Thomas Rael appeals the district court’s dismissal of his state law tort claims
as preempted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (“LMRA”),
29 U.S.C. § 185(a). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.
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I. Factual Background
Rael worked for Smith’s Food and Drug Centers as a meat cutter for 25 years
until he resigned in December 2014. The terms o

These matters are before the court on the respondent's Petition for Panel
Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc. We also have responses from the petitioner and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, in addition to amici curiae briefs from the
United States and The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. We also have several motions pending
seeking to file additional amici curiae briefs.
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ORS 408.230(2)(c) requires a public employer to
“devise and apply methods” of giving veterans and disabled
veterans “special consideration” in the employer’s hiring
process when that hiring process does not rank applicants
by means of a score. The issue in this case is whether the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (county) complied with
that requirement when it failed to pr