On December 2, 2014, Todd Jones ("Mr. Jones") submitted to Secretary of State
Jason Kander ("Secretary of State") an initiative petition sample sheet proposing to amend
article VIII of the Missouri Constitution by adding section 23 ("Proposed Measure"). Mr.
Jones is the Deputy Treasurer of Returning Government to the People, a campaign
committee organized under the laws of the... More...   $0 (09-15-2016 - MO)

Fayetteville, AR - Rogers Man Sentenced to Maximum of 20 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking

Francisco Sanchez, age 37 of Rogers, was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. Sanchez was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided... More...   $0 (09-13-2016 - AR)

Los Angeles, CA - Three Lead Defendants in Large Racketeering Case Targeting Crips Gang Plead Guilty to Federal Charges, Including Murder Conspiracy

With guilty pleas by a leader of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC), the three lead defendants in the largest racketeering case currently pending in Los Angeles have now pleaded guilty.

Tyrine Martinez, also kn... More...   $0 (09-10-2016 - CA)

ATLANTA - Major Cyber-Criminal Extradited From Czech Republic to Face Charges in Atlanta
Ukrainian National Charged as the Lead Casher in the 2008 Hack of RBS WorldPay

Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a/k/a Vinchenco, a/k/a Vinch, a/k/a M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R., 31, of Nikolaev, Ukraine, was arraigned before Catherine M. Salinas, United States Magistrate Judge, on federal charges of conspiracy to... More...   $0 (08-05-2016 - GA)

Tulsa, OK - Former Community College Employee Sentenced

The United States of America charged Martell Edwar Alexander, ag3 32, with student assistance fraud in violation of 20 U.S.C. 1097, wrongful destruction of records in violation of 20 U.S.C. 1097 and making a false statement in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001.

The Government claimed that Alexander altered school records for 43 s... More...   $0 (07-28-2016 - OK)

This matter comes before the Court on the Petitions for Review of Final Agency Action filed separately in each of these consolidated actions, challenging the Bureau of Land Management's issuance of regulations applying to hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands. The Court, having considered the briefs and materials submitted in support of the petitions and the oppositions thereto, includi... More...   $0 (06-23-2016 - WY)

Fairfax, VA - ISIL-Linked Hacker Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support

Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and accessing a protected computer without authorization and obtaining information.

“Ferizi admitted to st... More...   $0 (06-15-2016 - VA)

Alexandria, VA - Romanian Hacker “Guccifer” Pleads Guilty to Computer Hacking Crimes

Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” pleaded guilty to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.

“Cybercriminals like Marcel Lazar believe they can act with impunity from safe havens abroad, but the Justice Dep... More...   $0 (05-25-2016 - VA)

With the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, Congress created Amtrak, a for-profit corporation indirectly controlled by the President of the United States. This public venture into private enterprise was, and remains, unprecedented. With the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA), Congress piled anomaly on top of anomaly. See 122 Stat. 4907. It endowed this wholly unique ... More...   $0 (05-02-2016 - DC)

The facts are drawn from the Complaint, the operative limited partnership
agreements, other documents that are integral to the Complaint and matters of
which the Court may take judicial notice. a. The Parties
Plaintiff Peter Brinckerhoff (“Brinckerhoff” or “Plaintiff”), individually and
as trustee of the Peter R. Brinckerhoff Rev. Tr. U.A. DTD 10/17/97 (the “Trust”),
bring... More...   $0 (04-29-2016 - DE)

Sentences Imposed in Township 37 Marijuana Grow Case

Contact: Joel Casey
F. Todd Lowell
Assistant United States Attorneys
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Malcolm French, 54, of Enfield; Rodney Russell, 52, of South Thomaston; and Kendall Chase, 59, of Bradford; were sentenced today in U.S. District Court... More...   $0 (04-21-2016 - ME)

In our previous opinion in this case, we affirmed the decision of the district court and held that North Carolina’s specialty license plate program violated the First Amendment. See ACLU v. Tata, 742 F.3d 563 (4th Cir. 2014). The State sought review by the Supreme Court, which vacated our decision and remanded the case to us for reconsideration in light of the Court’s decision in Walker v. Texas D... More...   $0 (03-04-2016 - NC)

Dylan was a 24-year-old resident of Oberlin. At the time of this incident, he was in a sexual relationship with Sarah Campbell, who was also seeing Corey Cook. Sarah was staying with Dylan's close friends, Everett and Jordan Urban. Of note, Jordan had previously dated Corey.
In early October 2011, Corey was in town on leave from the Air Force. Sarah decided to tell Corey about her relationsh... More...   $0 (02-28-2016 - KS)

Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 34, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire (Barbadoro, J.) certified to us the following questions of law:
1. Whether sections 354-A:2 and 354-A:7 of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes impose individual employee liability for aiding and abetting discrimination in the workplace.
2. Whether section 354-A:19 of the New Hampshir... More...   $0 (02-23-2016 - NH)

In May 2014, motor vehicle manufacturer Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan)
and prospective Nissan dealer Stephen McDaniels1 sought to relocate a Nissan dealership
from Bloomington to a location 7.6 miles from a dealership operated by appellant
Wayzata Nissan, LLC (Wayzata). Wayzata challenged the relocation under the
Minnesota Motor Vehicle Sale and Distribution Act (MVSDA), ... More...   $0 (02-17-2016 - MN)

Beginning in the 1970s, the Service entered into CFAs with farmers to manage public lands in the National Wildlife Refuge System for the conservation of migratory birds and wildlife, including at the Umatilla and McNary Refuges in the Pacific Northwest.1 See id. at 469–70.
1 The Umatilla Refuge covers more than 22,000 acres “within the upper reach of Lake Umatilla in Benton County, Washing... More...   $0 (01-31-2016 - DC)

Tulsa, OK JOSEPH ROMANO SUED ALAN ARMSTRONG, H BRENT AUSTIN, RORY MILLER, LAURA A SUGG,
DONALD R CHAPPEL, ALICE M PETERSON, JAMES E SCHEEL, WILLIAMS PARTNERS LP, WILLIAMS PARTNERS GP LLC,
WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC, ACCESS MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP, ACCESS MIDSTREAM PARTNERS GP LLC,
VHMS LLC ON A CLASS ACTION THEORY CLAIMING:


Plaintiff Joseph Romano ("Plaintiff''), by his attor... More...   $0 (01-27-2016 - OK)

In 2008, oil and gas companies descended on east Texas and Louisiana seeking to acquire
leases to exploit the Haynesville Shale formation, which they viewed as having enormous
potential. The atmosphere created by these companies was described as “unreal,” “a land rush,”
and comparable to a gold rush. David Deffenbaugh, Petrohawk Properties, L.P.’s, vice president
of land—midc... More...   $0 (01-25-2016 - TX)

In this case we must decide whether Texas partnership law requires a plaintiff seeking to
enforce a partner’s liability for a partnership debt to sue the partner within the limitations period on
the underlying claim against the partnership. Here, a judgment creditor attempted to collect from a
partnership after litigating a contract claim for over a decade and a half, only to find the ... More...   $0 (01-24-2016 - TX)

This case affords a fascinating window into the world of private hedge funds, more particularly those operated to invest in non-equity instruments, and even more particularly, one fund, RRF, established by Ms. Nancy Zimmerman to capitalize on opportunities created by Russia’s 1998 default on its sovereign debt. The court heard from nine fact witnesses and five experts who made up an interesting a... More...   $0 (01-17-2016 - )

Los Angeles, CA - Mexican Mafia Member who Oversaw Latino Street Gangs in Orange County for Decades Found Guilty of Federal Racketeering Offenses

A longtime member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who exerted control over Latino street gangs in Orange County for 30 years was convicted of federal racketeering offenses, with a jury finding that he ordered murders and assaults while incarcer... More...   $0 (01-13-2016 - CA)

NEW BERN – United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced CHARLES ROBERT DOWD, 27, of Beaufort, North Carolina, to 41 months of imprisonment and 3 years supervised release and was ordered to pay $18,994.00 in restitution. On September 16, 2015 DOWD entered a guilty plea to making false distress calls to the ... More...   $0 (01-06-2016 - NC)

TJ, a family business, sold ceramic, tile, marble, granite, and other related
products from the time of its incorporation on January 2, 1962, through January 2011.
Around 1975, Philip Mularoni (“Mr. Mularoni”) and his brother, Richard Mularoni, purchased TJ from their parents, and, in 1991, Mr. Mularoni became the company’s sole owner and president. (PM Dep. 13:7-18, 14:7
13.) In ... More...   $0 (01-01-2016 - NY)

In March 2011, two sophisticated investors (the “Walnut Investors”) acquired
preferred units in PECO Logistics, LLC (“PECO” or the “Company”) and became parties
to an LLC agreement that afforded them the voluntary right to sell their preferred units
back to PECO three years later (the “Put Right”). The LLC agreement provides that,
upon exercise of the Put Right, the Company mu... More...   $0 (01-01-2016 - DE)

In 2004, SIGA acquired technology for ST-246, an antiviral drug for the treatment of smallpox. At that time, the viability, potential uses, safety, and efficacy of the drug, as well as the likelihood of SIGA obtaining regulatory approval or making sales to the government, were, as is typical in this industry, uncertain. By late 2005, SIGA was running out of money, its largest shareholder, MacAndr... More...   $0 (12-23-2015 - DE)