This is an accelerated appeal from an order denying a special appearance. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiffs sued numerous defendants complaining of tax investment strategies marketed to plaintiffs for use on their federal tax returns for the tax years 2000 through 2005 (“Investment Strategies”). Defendant Financial Strategy Group (“Financial Strategy”) filed a special appearance, w... More...   $0 (01-27-2015 - TX)

The question before us is whether the attorney-client privilege applies to intrafirm communications between attorneys concerning disputes with a current client, when that client later sues the firm for malpractice. We conclude that when an attorney representing a current client seeks legal advice from an in-house attorney concerning a dispute with the client, the attorney-client privilege may appl... More...   $0 (11-25-2014 - CA)

RALEIGH – United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ANDREW WAYNE LANDELLS , 47, of Jamaica, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.

LANDELLS was named in a three count, Criminal Indictment filed on May 15, 2013 charging him with one count of Conspiracy to Lau... More...   $0 (11-19-2014 - NC)

ATLANTA, GA – Heriberto Almonte-Reyes, the last of nineteen defendants in a large-scale money laundering organization, has been sentenced for his part in a conspiracy that laundered drug proceeds from Mexico, Australia, England, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Guatemala, Miami, New York, and Puerto Rico.

“International drug trafficking is a sophisticated business,... More...   $0 (10-29-2014 - GA)

Seattle, WA - Man with known gang ties was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 101 months in prison following his conviction at trial for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. JIMMY GENE MILLER, 29, was arrested on June 13, 2013 after Seattle Police responded to reports of a beating behind a nightclub in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood... More...   $0 (09-19-2014 - WA)

Indiana and Wisconsin are among the shrinking majority of states that do not recognize the va-lidity of same-sex marriages, whether contracted in these states or in states (or foreign countries) where they are law-ful. The states have appealed from district court decisions invalidating the states’ laws that ordain such refusal.
Formally these cases are about discrimination against the small ... More...   $0 (09-04-2014 - WI)

WILMINGTON, NC – United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that fourteen individuals from Wilmington have been charged in Criminal Indictments in connection with drug trafficking offenses. VICTOR FRANCISO VALLADARES, 32, JUSTICE DEVON PRICE, 24, SHAMIKA TARONA FENNELL, 27, TONY SHAHEEN DAVIS, 37, VICTOR MANUEL DAVILA, 55, DEMOND NAKAI FLOWERS, 42, PEARLIE ARMSTRONG, 48, RONALD LE... More...   $0 (09-03-2014 - NC)

Health and Safety Code section 1278.5 prohibits a health facility from retaliating against any of its employees for complaining about the quality of care or services provided by the facility. The statute further provides that an employee who has been improperly retaliated against “shall be entitled to reinstatement, reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by the acts of the employe... More...   $0 (08-21-2014 - CA)

Appellants, Iradj R. Farkooshi, Parvaz Group, Inc., and Pars Shell, Inc. appeal a final judgment in a breach of contract suit, awarding damages and attorney’s fees to Appellees, Afisco Interest, LLC f/k/a Afisco Industries, Inc. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On November 30, 2001, Afisco Industries, Inc. (“Industries”) entered into a contract with Parvaz Group, entitled Petroleum Supply Ag... More...   $0 (08-21-2014 - TX)

This is an appeal out of Ada County by Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center from a jury verdict awarding damages totaling $52,084,513 against it for breach of contract and tortious conduct regarding MRI Associates, LLP, and its two limited partnerships that owned and operated magnetic resonance imaging scanners. The respondents also cross-appealed the $4.6 million judgment obtained by Saint Alp... More...   $0 (08-04-2014 - ID)

Via various state statutes and a state constitutional amendment, Virginia prevents same-sex couples from marrying and refuses to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Two same-sex couples filed suit to challenge the constitutionality of these laws, alleging that they violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court granted the couples... More...   $0 (07-28-2014 - VA)

Tulsa, OK - The former president and chief executive officer of BizJet International Sales and Support Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG with headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that provides aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, pleaded guilty today for his participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials.

Assistant Attorney General L... More...   $0 (07-25-2014 - OK)

Plaintiff James Demetriades, who operates restaurants in Mammoth Lakes, filed a complaint seeking an injunction under the Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200 et seq. (UCL)) and False Advertising Law (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17500 et seq. (FAL)) to prevent defendant Yelp, Inc. (Yelp), the operator of a popular online website that contains customer reviews of businesses, from making cl... More...   $0 (07-24-2014 - CA)

GREENEVILLE, TN – Garry Lee Brown, 25, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 150 months in federal prison, for his conviction of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.

Beginning in 2011, law enforcement began investigating a large-scale crack cocaine conspiracy originating out of Chattanooga. As part of the conspiracy... More...   $0 (07-23-2014 - TX)

LAS VEGAS, NV – A Las Vegas man well-known to local police because of his lengthy criminal history and street gang affiliations, was sentenced today to 155 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

Ryan Walton, aka Ryan McLemore, 32, of Las Vegas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge And... More...   $0 (07-23-2014 - NV)

Guillermo Benavides Garza Investment Co., Manuel A. Benavides, and Norma Z. Benavides appeal the trial court’s order granting a temporary injunction. Because the applicant, Guillermo Benavides, Z., did not show that he would suffer irreparable harm or that any judgment he obtained would be rendered ineffectual in the absence of a temporary injunction, we hold the trial court abused its discretio... More...   $0 (07-09-2014 - TX)

We must decide in these cases whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 107 Stat. 1488,42 U. S. C. §2000bb et seq., permits the United StatesDepartment of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demand that three closely held corporations providehealth-insurance coverage for methods of contraceptionthat violate the sincerely held religious beliefs of thecompanies’ owners. We hold... More...   $0 (06-30-2014 - DC)

Fayetteville, AR - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that six defendants were sentenced this week as a result of drug- trafficking charges. The six individuals sentenced were originally charged in a 7-count indictment filed on July 31, 2013. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencings in the United States District Court in Fay... More...   $0 (06-18-2014 - AR)

This is an appeal out of Ada County by Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center from a jury verdict awarding damages totaling $52,084,513 against it for breach of contract and tortious conduct regarding MRI Associates, LLP, and its two limited partnerships that owned and operated magnetic resonance imaging scanners. The respondents also cross-appealed the $4.6 million judgment obtained by Saint Alp... More...   $0 (06-17-2014 - ID)

DALLAS, TX — At a hearing concluding late Friday afternoon, Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Duc Luu, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Vietnam, to 14 years in federal prison for laundering monetary proceeds from sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

During the hearing, Chief Judge Fitzwater noted the horrific ... More...   $0 (06-16-2014 - TX)

Appellants Mohamad Mooti and Ilham Elsaleh d/b/a Bryan Auto Body & Auto Sales and Brazos Valley Collision Center appeal the trial court’s award of prejudgment interest, attorney’s fees, and costs to Appellee Ahmad Aldirawi in this partnership dissolution case. Mooti and Elsaleh complain that the trial court should have instead awarded them attorney’s fees and costs because they were the prev... More...   $0 (06-13-2014 - TX)

In this appeal from the denial of a post-judgment turnover order, we consider whether (1) the trial court’s order is final and appealable, and (2) the trial court

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erred in denying appellant’s request that certain property be turned over to a receiver appointed to collect a judgment on his behalf. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

The Underlying Suit

In 2006, Elgohary a... More...   $0 (06-05-2014 - TX)

¶1 Following a criminal jury trial, Frank and Joan Steed (the Steeds), husband and wife, were each convicted of three counts of failure to render (file) a proper tax return and one count of engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity. They were acquitted of four counts of tax evasion and two additional counts of failure to file a proper tax return. The failure-to-file statute required proof that t... More...   $0 (05-16-2014 - UT)

DENVER, CO – James P. Burg, age 63, formerly of Fairplay, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 90 months in federal prison for mail fraud and failing to file an income tax return, federal law enforcement authorities announced. Following his prison sentence, Burg was ordered to spend 3 years on supervised release. Judge Kane also ordered him to pa... More...   $0 (05-16-2014 - CO)

This case involves claims of tortious interference and the Real Estate License Act (“RELA”). In two issues, James Murphy, a licensed real estate broker, asserts the trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of Reed Williams because RELA does not preclude his tortious interference claims and he raised a fact issue on these claims. Because Williams is not a licensed broker and did ... More...   $0 (05-06-2014 - TX)