Renee Credeur was employed by the Office of Attorney General for the State of Louisiana (“DOJ”) as a litigation attorney. During the course of her employment, she developed serious health problems due to complications from a kidney transplant. On account of her illness, the DOJ granted her temporary accommodations to work from home with the goal of eventually reintegrating her into the office. Aft

Houston, TX - Former Energy Company Executive Sentenced in Embezzlement Scheme

The former CEO of Chase Power Development was ordered to federal prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. John David Upchurch, 54, of Spring, pleaded guilty Jan. 6, 2017.

Houston-based Quintana Capital Group created Chase Power in order to head start an energy proje

The instant charges arose out of a roadway encounter between two drivers going
northbound on Interstate 35 between San Marcos and Austin, near Kyle. Jack Drewien, driving a
red truck, was driving in the left of the three highway lanes. As he began to approach an 18-wheeler
truck driving in the center lane, he saw a white car in his rearview mirror. As he passed the truck,
he not

Appellant Jefferson County, Texas appeals from two orders of the trial court
denying its plea to the jurisdiction and granting appellee Victor Stines’s request for
a declaratory judgment and writ of mandamus to compel the County to submit to
arbitration. In five issues, the County argues that: (1) Stines failed to plead and prove
a valid waiver of the County’s immunity from suit; (

and HHH Farms, LLC (HHH) (collectively Appellants), defaulted on the payment due on two of their loans from Lone Star, PCA (Lone Star), they sold cattle securing the loans without paying the proceeds to Lone Star. After learning of the cattle sales and that some of the proceeds were used to pay other creditors, Lone Star sued Appellants for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion,

On April 30, 2014, a little after 6 p.m., McDuffie and his then-fiancé, Kaila Pollman, brought Pollman's 23-month-old son, E.J.A., to the local hospital in Garden City, Kansas. McDuffie, who had been watching E.J.A. all day while Pollman worked, explained to the doctors that E.J.A. had been suffering from seizures for well over an hour. In addition to the seizures, tests revealed that E.J.A. was s

Plaintiffs, families with children enrolled in the Douglas County School
District RE-1 (“DCSD”) and the American Humanist Association (“AHA”), filed this
action challenging various DCSD practices as violations of the Establishment Clause
and the Equal Access Act (“EAA”). They contend that DCSD has engaged in a
pattern and practice of promoting Christian fundraising efforts and perm

This appeal arises out of the
state prosecution of Vladek Filler in 2009. He was initially
indicted on five counts of gross sexual assault and two counts of
assault of his then-wife Ligia Arguetta Filler. After two trials
-- and two appeals to the Maine Law Court -- he was convicted only
of one misdemeanor assault count, which he is still challenging.
In the wake of these e

On May 23, 2015, Mr. Broussard and Keevin Ware went to Kayla Walker’s apartment. According to Ms. Walker, Mr. Broussard was upset with her because she did not give him a ride the previous evening. Angered by their discussion, Mr.Broussard pulled out a gun, put it to Ms. Walker’s head, and demanded that she give him money. Ms. Walker told him that her money was in her car. Mr. Broussard preceded

Between February 29, 2012, and March 10, 2012, Chris Gillespie used a domain name registrar to acquire 763 domain names that included the word “google.” Each of these domain names paired the word “google” with some other term identifying a specific brand, person, or product—for example, “googledisney.com,” “googlebarackobama. net,” and “googlenewtvs.com.”
4 ELLIOTT V. GOOGLE
Google, Inc. (

The defendant’s conviction relates to the June 16, 2014 robbery of the Grocery and Tobacco Market on Maryville Pike in Knoxville. On that date, Anthony
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Smith robbed the store clerk, Mohammed Islam, at gunpoint. Mr. Islam described the offense at trial:
What actually happened is I am working and my employee called me, I was talking to them. And one guy – with the bandana, he pull

After homeowners Guy and Janet Dankel sued Bobby Elbert Miller, Jr.
d/b/a Miller Construction for using defective concrete in constructing a driveway
and concrete slab on their property, Miller Construction filed a third-party action
1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
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against the concrete manufacturer, Appellant RDJRLW, Inc. (RDJ), for statutory
indemnity under chapter 82 of the

On the night of September 14, 2015, two men wearing masks robbed a Dollar
General store in Marion, taking approximately $700 in cash. One of the men, who was
wearing a green-and-white-striped shirt, had a gun and hit the assistant manager in the head
during the robbery. Witnesses were unable to identify the perpetrators, apart from being
able to describe them as African-Amer

Daniel S. Hentschke; Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, Michael G. Colantuono
and Eduardo Jansen for California Association of Sanitation Agencies, California State
Association of Counties and League of California Cities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of
Defendant and Respondent.
Plaintiffs and appellants Eugene G. Plantier, as Trustee of the Plantier Family
Trust (Plantier); Progres

San Antonio, TX - Union Treatment Center to Pay $3 Million and Be Permanently Excluded from Federal Health Care Programs under False Claims Act Settlement

Union Treatment Center (“UTC”), a medical and physical therapy provider with clinics in Austin, Killeen, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi, will pay $3 million to settle civil health care fraud allegations. The settlement partially resolv

Casiopea Bovet, LLC (Casiopea) appeals a judgment on the pleadings granted in
favor of the California State Controller (Controller) on the basis Casiopea could not claim
escheated property under the Unclaimed Property Law (Code of Civ. Proc., § 1500 et
seq.)1 as an assignee of Financial Title Company (Financial Title) because Financial Title
was a suspended corporation (Rev. & Tax.

Tulsa, OK - Jury Convicts Defendant of Assault and Battery With a Dangerous Weapon

The State of Oklahoma charged Jestin Tafolla with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABDGR, ASSAULT & BATTERY WITH A DANGEOUS WEAPON, in violation of 21 O.S. 645
Date of Offense: 04/05/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
TAFOLLA, JESTIN
Count # 2. Count as Filed: WE1, CARRYING W

At approximately 2:48 a.m. on April 13, 2014, 911 dispatch received a call from a man named Jeremy who stated that he was being followed by a black SUV and the occupants of the SUV were waving a handgun at him. Jeremy reported that he was driving a green Ford Expedition
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and was northbound on 24th Street. He then provided an update to dispatch that he was westbound at 30th Street an

Lubbock, TX - Las Vegas Man Sentenced For Interfering with a Flight Crew

Jerry Ba Nguyen, 25, of Las Vegas, was sentenced to 36 months in federal custody for interfering with flight crew members and attendants.

Nguyen pleaded guilty in February 2017 to one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants. Nguyen has been in custody since his arrest in September 2016.

Brothers Camil and Samir Kreit appeal the trial court’s final judgment confirming an arbitration award in favor of Brewer & Pritchard, P.C. for fees due under a contract for legal services. Camil and Samir argue the trial court erred in confirming, rather than vacating, the award because they did not agree to arbitrate disputes with Brewer & Pritchard, P.C. in their individual capacities. For the

These three appeals arise from two cases that concern the passage,
implementation, and alleged effects of Amendment 64 to the Colorado Constitution,
Colo. Const. art. XVIII, § 16. Amendment 64 repealed many of the State’s criminal and
civil proscriptions on “recreational marijuana,”1 and created a regulatory regime designed
to ensure that marijuana is unadulterated and taxed, and t

Parish Carter was charged with two counts of first degree murder, bribing a
witness, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, intimidation of a witness, and
unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, all in connection with the drive-by
shooting deaths of Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancée Vivian Wolfe, the week before
Marshall-Fields was to testify in a prosecution of

Tulsa, OK - City of Tulsa v. Larry Wheeler, et al.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: CITY OF TULSA
Filed Date: 08/10/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: ONEOK INC Disposed: DISCLAIMER, 09/16/2016. Other
Defendant: CONOCO PHILLIPS COMPANY Disposed: DISMISSED, 09/20/2016. Other
Defendant: PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY Disposed: DISMI

Justice Department, with FTC, Wins Largest-Ever Telemarketing Penalty Against Dish Network

As the result of long-running litigation to redress invasion of consumer privacy, most notably through violation of the National Do Not Call Registry brought by the U.S. Department of Justice as well as the States of California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio, a federal court in Illinois has ord

Chicago, IL - Justice Department and City of Des Plaines, Illinois Settle Lawsuit Over Alleged RLUIPA Violations

The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the City of Des Plaines, Illinois, to resolve allegations that the City violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied a rezoning application to allow The Society of Amer