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Jane Doe v. Vigo County, Indiana

Jane Doe seeks to hold Vigo County,
Indiana, liable for the sexual misconduct of its employee, David
Gray. Gray allegedly confined and sexually assaulted Doe
while she volunteered at the park where he worked. The district
court granted summary judgment in favor of Vigo
County, finding that it was neither vicariously liable for
Gray’s wrongs nor directly liable for permittin

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State of Tennessee v. Shawn Nelson Smoot





This appeal arises as the result of the victim’s death on October 15, 2011. The evening of October 14, 2011, the victim left her car in the parking lot of Altruda’s Restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee and spent the nigh

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Donna Fox v. James R. Mize and Van Eaton Ready Mix, Inc.

¶1 This cause arises from a motor vehicle accident between Ronald J. Fox and James R. Mize that occurred on July 29, 2015, near Sunnylane Road and Indian Hills Road in Norman, Oklahoma. Mr. Mize was traveling northbound on Sunnylane Road in a tractor-trailer owned by his employer, Van Eaton Ready Mix, Inc., when he made a left turn onto Van Eaton's property. According to the traffic collision repo

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STATE OF OHIO - vs - DUSTIN LAWRENCE





Appellant, Dustin Lawrence, appeals his conviction for domestic violence,
gross sexual imposition, and three counts of rape. Counsel appointed to represent
Lawrence in this appeal filed a brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct.

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YVENS GLEMAUD vs. METROHEALTH SYSTEMS







Glemaud originally filed this action in November 2012, alleging racial and
national origin discrimination, specifically disparate treatment, under R.C. 4112.02(A),
which pr

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State of Ohio v. William E. Smith

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On April 7, 2016, Smith was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by
Toledo police officers, David Ford and Justin Sciplin. The officers obse

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Jimmy Joe Small v. State of Indiana





Following a tip that Small possessed a firearm, several detectives of the
Evansville Police Department’s drug task force conducted a “knock and talk”
on Small’s motel room. Small, who was joined in the room by Brittany Harper,

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Jeffery Solomon v. The State of Texas







Appellant was charged with the murder of complainant Darius Gatlin. At trial, the State adduced the following evidence through testimony and exhibits. Complainant, a man, sometimes dressed as a woman and worked as a prostitute. Complainant lived in an apar

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Michael J. Palardy, Jr. v. Township of Millburn; Timothy P. Fordon





Michael Palardy, a retired police officer of Township of Millburn, New Jersey, alleges that the Township’s business administrator, Timothy Gordon, unlawfully prevented him from becoming Chief of Police because Gordon opposed Palardy’s union membership and activity. The district c

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Manny Villanueva v. Fidelity National Title Company

In their first appeal (case No. H041870), both plaintiff Manny Villanueva,
individually and as class representative, and defendant Fidelity National Title Company
(Fidelity) appeal from a judgment following a bench trial in this class action lawsuit
alleging violations of the Unfair Competition Law (UCL) (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 17200
et seq.). Villanueva and the class (jointly Plain

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STATE OF KANSAS v. SYLVESTER PROVENCIO












On the afternoon of April 21, 2015, Provencio drove his mother's Toyota pickup truck to pick up his friend, Austin Town

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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.) V. HON. BRIAN C. EDWARDS, JUDGE AND REV. ERIC HOEY







The Presbyterian Ministry Agency (PMA) hired Reverend Eric Hoey as the
Director of Evangelism and Church Growth. During his tenure in that
position, Hoey acted with other ministers to incorporate an entity separat

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STATE OF OHIO - vs - VERL D. GIBSON






On March 31, 2017, Detective James Robbins and Patrolman Shawn
Crank, of the Niles Police Department, visited appellant’s residence in Cortland, Ohio.
Upon answering the door, Det. Robbins asked appellant if he would meet them at the
Niles Police

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State of Ohio v. Eric L. Powell







All charges against appellant arose out of incidents occurring on the night of December 15, 2015, at 393 South Harris Avenue (the "South Harris house") in Columbus, Ohio, a location identified by all who testified as a drug house. An escalating dispute bet

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State of Iowa v. Imere Hall






Hall testified at his trial. There, he told the jury the following transpired the
night Collin Brown was murdered.
In the lat

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Bob Glasscox v. City of Argo, David Ramsay Moses




Bob Glasscox was driving his pickup truck down the interstate in Alabama when he experienced an episode of diabetic shock. Physically unable to control his truck, Mr. Glasscox began driving erratically at high speeds. Concerned motorists reported Mr. Glasscox’s driving to law enforcement,

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Jared Eugene Wilson v. The State of Texas

The State charged Appellant with the murder of Tommy Wilson by shooting Tommy with a firearm. Appellant pleaded “not guilty.” At trial, the record demonstrated that the shooting occurred at the Royal Inn and Suites. Amanda Hall testified that, on July 4, 2016, Appellant allowed Hall and her children to stay in his motel room. Hall owned a firearm, which she placed in the nightstand drawer. S

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Joe R. Whatley v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company District of North Dakota Federal Courthouse - Bismarck, North Dakota Morelaw Internet Marketing National Find A Lawyer Directory 888-354-4529

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

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Harley-Davidson, Inc. v. Franchise Tax Board

Plaintiff Harley Davidson and its subsidiaries (Harley-Davidson) form a multistate
enterprise with numerous functionally integrated subsidiary corporations. It contends
that defendant California Franchise Tax Board's (Board) tax scheme violates the
commerce clause of the federal Constitution (U.S. Const., art. I, § 8, cl. 3), claiming that
it burdens interstate enterprises by provi

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COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSHUA ROSADO MoreLaw Suites - The Best Place In Tulsa To Practice Law

The issue on appeal concerns the scope of the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing. In Commonwealth v. Edwards, 444 Mass. 526, 540 (2005), we held that a defendant forfeits the right to object to the admission in evidence of an unavailable witness's out-of-court statements on both confrontation and hearsay grounds if the Commonwealth proves by 2 a preponderance of the evidence that "(1) the

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United States of America v. Daniel Sullivan District of New Hampshire Federal Courthouse - Concord, New Hampshire

Concord, NH - Manchester Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Illegal Possession of Firearms

Daniel Sullivan, 35, of Manchester, was sentenced to 168 months (14 years) in federal prison for the illegal possession of firearms.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2015 and 2016, Sullivan purchased and traded several firearms in New Hamps

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Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. District of Massachusetts Federal Courthouse - Boston, Massachusetts

Jane Doe's insurer, Harvard
Pilgrim Health Care ("HPHC"), deemed part of the time Doe spent at
a mental health residential treatment facility not medically
necessary under the health care benefits plan established by the
employer of Doe's parent. HPHC therefore denied coverage for that
portion of the treatment. After several unsuccessful
administrative appeals, Doe sued HPH

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Harmun Takhar v. The People ex rel. Feather River Air Quality Management District

This appeal challenges the trial court’s denial of a special motion to strike
pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, the anti-SLAPP statute,1 directed at a
cross-complaint asserting causes of action arising from a civil enforcement action
brought by Feather River Air Quality Management District against Harmun Takhar for
multiple violations of state and local air pollut

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Amanda Kondrat'Yev v. City of Pensacola, Florida United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Federal Courthouse - Pensacola, Florida

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.
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The pertinent facts are undisputed. In 1941, th

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AMY GONZALEZ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DAVID MATUSIEWICZ

David Matusiewicz1 and Christine Belford were married from 2001 to 2006, during which time they had three children, L.M.1, L.M.2, and K.M.1 (the “children”). The couple and their children also lived with Belford’s one child from a previous marriage, K.M.2.2 After their divorce, Belford and David engaged in a bitter custody dispute, during which David accused Belford of being an unfit mother and

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