Boston, MA - Head of Wildlife Smuggling Ring Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Carvings Made From Ivory, Rhino Horn and Coral

Guan Zong Chen (“Graham Chen”), an Australian citizen, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, on charges that he led a conspiracy to illegally export (smuggle) $700,000 worth of endangered and protected wildlife items made from rhinoceros horn, elephan

Jessica Jauch was indicted by a grand jury, arrested, and put in jail—where she waited for 96 days to be brought before a judge and was effectively denied bail. The district court found this constitutionally permissible. It is not. A pre-trial detainee denied access to the judicial system for a prolonged period has been denied basic procedural due process, and we therefore reverse the district cou

Treating Plaintiff–Appellant Timothy Patton’s petition for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing, the petition for panel rehearing is DENIED. The petition for rehearing en banc is also DENIED. The prior opinion, Patton v. Jacobs Eng’g Grp., Inc., 863 F.3d 419 (5th Cir. 2017), is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted:
Patton brought this American Disabilities Act (“A

Cincinnati, OH - Renewable Fuel Trader Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

The owner of a company that buys and sells renewable fuel and fuel credits pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to conspiracy for his role in a scheme that generated over $47 million in fraudulent EPA renewable fuels credits, and over $12 million in fraudulent tax credits connected to the

In this case we are called upon to decide whether the Establishment Clause is violated when a local government displays and maintains on public property a 40-foot tall Latin cross, established in memory of soldiers who died in World War I. The district court determined that such government action does not run afoul of the Establishment Clause because the cross has a secular purpose, it neither adv

Norman, OK - Defendant Pleads Guilty and Gets Deferred Sentence

The State of Oklahoma charged William Jay Stephens, age 55, with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: OPJ, PATTERN OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES, in violation of 21 O.S. 425
Date of Offense: 02/08/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Stephens, William Jay Disposed: DEFERRED, 10/23/2017. Nolo Contendere Plea
Cou

Plaintiff and appellant Paul Kendall's second amended complaint asserts several
types of class-wide claims that challenge the billing and collection practices of the health
facility operating an emergency room where he received care, defendant and respondent
Scripps Health (Scripps). As relevant here, Kendall seeks declaratory relief on contract
interpretation theories, and remedi

This appeal involves property insurance, damage to the insured’s property, the insurer’s attempt to adjust the claim, a dispute regarding the quantum of loss derived by the adjuster, a lawsuit filed by the insured against the insurer, an appraisal clause, the invocation of the appraisal clause by the insurer once suit was filed, an eventual appraisal, the purported tender of the appraised loss by

I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiffs and appellants Gisselle Morales-Simental, a minor, et al.1
appeal from
summary judgment granted in favor of defendant and respondent Genentech, Inc., one of
the defendants in this personal injury case. Morales-Simental alleges that she, with the
other named plaintiffs, suffered injuries and sustained damages as a result of the
negligence of d

Tulsa, OK - City of Tulsa, Oklahoma v. Eric Deatherage, Estate of Robert Lau, Marvin King, et al.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: CITY OF TULSA OKLAHOMA
Filed Date: 04/07/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE COMPANY OF WISCONSIN Disposed: JUDGEMENT ENTERED, 09/13/2017. Judge
Defendant: BOARD OF COUNTY C

Named plaintiffs James Thole and Sherry Smith (collectively, “plaintiffs”)1
brought a putative class action against U.S. Bank, N.A. (“U.S. Bank”); U.S. Bancorp;
and multiple U.S. Bancorp directors (collectively, “defendants”),2 challenging the
defendants’ management of a defined benefit pension plan (“Plan” or “U.S. Bank
Pension Plan”) from September 30, 2007, to December 31, 2010.

Class and collective actions are de-signed to provide an efficient vehicle to resolve the claims of a large number of plaintiffs in one fell swoop. They can offer benefits to both sides in a case: plaintiffs are able to aggregate resources in order to litigate small claims, and defendants can achieve a global resolution of the dispute. But class actions are
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not always the bes

Tulsa, OK - http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/atty.asp?f=Joseph&l=Bufogle&i=26483&z=74105

Issue # 1. Issue: BREACH OF AGREEMENT - CONTRACT (CONTRACT)
Filed By: EASTON, VICKIE KAY
Filed Date: 03/10/2014
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: AMERICAN NATIONAL PROPERTY AND CASUALTY COMPANY Disposed: DISMISSED - SETTLED, 09/08/2017. Dismissed- Settled
Defendant

Albuquerque, NM - Acoma Pueblo Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Assault Charge - Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women

Anthony Phillips, 27, an enrolled member and resident of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge. Under the terms of his plea agreemen

Class and collective actions are de-signed to provide an efficient vehicle to resolve the claims of a large number of plaintiffs in one fell swoop. They can offer benefits to both sides in a case: plaintiffs are able to aggregate resources in order to litigate small claims, and defendants can achieve a global resolution of the dispute. But class actions are
2 No. 16-3487
not always the bes

Wiseman Park, LLC (appellant) appeals from the judgment entered
following the trial court sustaining the demurrer of Southern Glazer’s Wine
and Spirits, LLC (respondent)1 to appellant’s complaint without leave to
amend. Appellant, the holder of a license to sell alcoholic beverages in its
restaurant, purchased alcoholic beverages from respondent, a licensed
wholesale distributo

Santiaga Herrera owned and lived in a house with a garage apartment. Herrera sold the property to Gloria Alejos, who financed the purchase with a note made to Herrera. After closing, Alejos’s daughter, Banesa Coronel, moved into the
2
house, and Alejos allowed Herrera to stay in the garage apartment, where she was
living at the time of the sale.
Alejos later tried to evict Herrera,

¶1 The dispositive issue is whether the terms of 36 O.S. 1981 § 3636 1 impose an affirmative duty upon insurers to provide an explanation of uninsured motorist coverage [UMC] to the named insureds as an indispensable precondition for a statutorily effective rejection. We answer in the negative.

¶2 Randall and Mikala Silver [insureds or the Silvers] were named insureds of an automobile ins

¶1 This is the second appeal by Berland's Inc. in this case. The decision in the first appeal appears in 378 P.2d 860 and reference is made thereto for a statement of the original controversy between the parties that was presented to this court. We will refer to Berland's Inc. as "Berland" and Northside Village Shopping Center, Inc. as "Northside."

¶2 As reflected by our earlier opinion,

The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42
U.S.C. § 12101, et seq., requires public accommodations,
including movie theaters, to furnish auxiliary aids and services,
which include qualified interpreters, to patrons with vision,
hearing, and speech disabilities. Plaintiff-Appellant Paul
McGann, who is blind and deaf, requested from Defendant-
Appellee Cinemark US

In this appeal, we must determine whether the District
Court properly exercised its power to dismiss a case pursuant
to the forum non conveniens doctrine when it dismissed
3
Appellant’s claims under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 30104
(2012), and general maritime laws for unseaworthiness,
negligence, and maintenance and cure. We shall affirm the
District Court in two steps

Three Laotian correctional officers, Va Ly, Travis Herr and Pao Yang, were
allegedly subjected to racial and national origin discrimination, harassment and
retaliation by their employer, the County of Fresno (County), and its employees. The
three filed suit against the County pursuant to the Fair Employment and Housing Act
2.
(FEHA), Government Code section 12900 et seq., whil

A New Mexico statute makes it illegal to “willfully interfere with the
educational process” at a public school. N.M. STAT. ANN. § 30-20-13(D). In
2009, an Albuquerque Police Officer assigned to a middle school as a School
Resource Officer (“SRO”) relied on that statute to arrest a thirteen-year-old for
skipping class. The main question before us is whether qualified immunity
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Fresno, CA - Pacific Western Bank Pays $1.75 Million To Resolve Firrea Allegations Relating To Kinde Durkee Embezzlement Scheme

Pacific Western Bank (“PacWest”) has paid $1.75 million to resolve allegations that First California Bank, which PacWest acquired in 2013, violated Section 951 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), codified at 12 U.S

John Sturgeon would like to use his hovercraft in a national preserve to reach moose hunting grounds. The State of Alaska is fine with that;1 the federal government is not. Sturgeon’s case turns on which entity—state or federal—gets to decide the matter. On remand from the Supreme Court, we again conclude that the federal government properly exercised its authority to regulate hovercraft use on th