Cedar Rapids, IA - Maquoketa Man Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Federal Prison for Illegally Trafficking in Black Rhino Horns

A man who illegally bought and transported black rhino horns from Oregon to Iowa was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.

James Hess, age 39, from Maquoketa, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 13, 2015, guilty plea to one count ... More...   $0 (10-25-2015 - IA)

Madison, WI - Chicago Man Sentenced to 78 Months for Gun Crime

Paul Williams, 29, Chicago, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 78 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Williams pleaded guilty to this charge on July 24, 2015.

Williams was arrested on October 9, 2014, after a high speed police chase in Madison, which ended whe... More...   $0 (10-20-2015 - WI)

Ray Clifton (“Clifton”) and his son Darryl Clifton (“Darryl”) lived together and were very close. Darryl helped take care of his father. On August 3, 2012, fifty-one-year-old Darryl left home on his moped at approximately 11:15 a.m. Shortly after, around 11:28 a.m., Ruby McCammack negligently turned left in front of Darryl, who struck McCammack’s car and suffered fatal injuries. Immediately after ... More...   $0 (10-20-2015 - IN)

The issue on appeal is a threshold one: whether Amanda Valencia’s (Valencia) claims that SCIS Air Security Corporation (SCIS) violated California meal and rest break laws and wage laws are preempted by the federal Airline Deregulation Act (FADA). The trial court granted summary adjudication finding that Valencia’s claims are preempted and, based on that ruling, denied Valencia’s motion to certif... More...   $0 (10-18-2015 - CA)

Pierre, SD - Man Sentenced for stealing a pickup

KT Burgee, a/k/a K.T. Burgee, age 21, was sentenced to time served, 2 years of supervised release, $4,500 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

Burgee was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 1, 2015. He pled guilty to the indictment on July 20, 2015.

The conviction arose ... More...   $0 (10-15-2015 - SD)

Plaintiff Jeffrey Weinman is the Chapter 7 Trustee for Adam Aircraft Industries
(“AAI”).1 Defendant Joseph Walker was an officer of AAI and served as its president
and as a member of its Board of Directors (the “Board”) from 2004 through early
2007. Throughout his employment, Walker had neither a written employment
contract nor a severance agreement with AAI.
In February 2007, ... More...   $0 (10-15-2015 - CO)

Alexandria, LA - Ethiopian national sentenced to 27 months in prison for resisting deportation orders

An Ethiopian national was sentenced to 27 months in prison for refusing to leave the country twice after being ordered to depart.

Henok Dejene Retta, 30, of Addis, Ethiopia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell on two counts of failure to depart. Retta was found guil... More...   $0 (10-14-2015 - LA)

Helicopters, Inc., filed a petition for review
asking this court to order the National Transportation Safety
Board to rescind or withhold reports on a crash involving a
helicopter operated by the company. We conclude that the
Board’s reports are not final orders subject to our review, and
thus we dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction.
2 No. 15-3028
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In Marc... More...   $0 (10-13-2015 - IL)

Basically, plaintiffs are upset because they think four
ANR&P articles — published between December 2009 and March 2011 —
contained false and defamatory statements. Discussing a train
derailment on a Springfield-owned rail line, the first article —
after relying on reports in leading newspapers — quoted a state
official as saying the accident was "'perfectly predictable'"... More...   $0 (10-13-2015 - ME)

Today's appeal centers on a district judge's decision
kicking out this battle-scarred defamation case on summary
judgment. By way of introduction, plaintiffs are David Andrew
Fink, Pan Am Systems, Inc., and Springfield Terminal Railway
Company. Fink is the former President and CEO of Pan Am, the
parent corporation of Springfield. Defendants are Chalmers
Hardenbergh and Atla... More...   $0 (10-12-2015 - ME)

New Indictment Adds Bank Fraud and Financial Aid Fraud Charges Against Two Orange County Men Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
Two Orange County men who were indicted in June 2015 for conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been indicted for additional charges involving bank fraud and financial aid fraud.
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Albuquerque, NM - Federal Jury Finds Kevin Folse Guilty on Carjacking and Firearms Charges

Prosecution Pursued Under Federal “Worst of the Worst” Anti-Violence Initiative

A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a verdict finding Kevin Folse, 30, guilty on carjacking and firearms charges after a four-day trial. The verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Ma... More...   $0 (10-08-2015 - NM)

Wichita, KS - Pilot of Plane Loaded With Marijuana Sentenced on Federal Drug Charge

A Denver man who flew a plane loaded with marijuana into an airport in Iola, Kan., was sentenced to a year in federal prison followed by a year on supervised release, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, the Drug Enforcement Administration administratively forfeited his plane, more than $450,000 ... More...   $0 (10-05-2015 - KS)

The plaintiff, an inmate of a Wisconsin
state prison, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against
the prison’s warden (Foster) and a prison guard (Schneider),
alleging in his complaint that Schneider had inflicted cruel
and unusual punishment on him. The district court dismissed
the complaint at “screening,” 28 U.S.C. § 1915A—
which is to say before any response by the defend... More...   $0 (10-02-2015 - WI)

Houston, TX - Women Head to Prison for Stealing and Using Patient Information to Create Fraudulent Bank Accounts

With the sentencing of Leatrice Reynaud, 45, three Houston women have now been held accountable for their crimes of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Reynaud previously pleaded guilty as did Houston cousins, Tonya Beverly... More...   $0 (10-01-2015 - TX)

This lawsuit arose out of a fatal helicopter crash that occurred on August 31, 2010, in Kamiah, Idaho. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (Department) had contracted with Leading Edge Aviation, LLC, to fly two Department employees from Clarkston, Washington, to the Selway River in Idaho in order to collect data on salmon spawning. The pilot of the helicopter was Perry J. Krinitt, Jr., the son... More...   $0 (09-26-2015 - ID)

New York, NY -Former German Soldier Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Murder A DEA Agent And Conspiring To Import Cocaine

DENNIS GOGEL, a former member of the German Army and a trained sniper, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to murder a Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) agent and a confidential info... More...   $0 (09-25-2015 - NY)

Tulsa, OK - Personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defenant on auto negligence theories claiming:

Plaintiffs allege and state:
1. Plaintiffs Donald, Nathan and Nolan Ackenhausen were at all material times residents of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
2. Defendants Ernest Soto and Tamara Branson-Soto were at all material times upon information and belief residents of Tulsa C... More...   $2300 (09-22-2015 - ok)

Tulsa, OK - Rachel Garcia sued Linda Copeland on an auto negligence theory claiming:

1) Plaintiff, Rachel Garcia, is a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, at all times
material to the events described herein.
2) Defendant, Linda Copeland is a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma and was at all times material to the events described herein.
3) That the events described herein oc... More...   $1 (09-22-2015 - Ok)

In this products liability action, Hyundai Motor Company, Ltd., and Hyundai Motor America, Inc. (Hyundai) appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of Keith Allen Duncan and Vanessa Duncan, Guardians and Conservators for Zachary Gage Duncan (Gage), and Keith Allen Duncan and Vanessa Duncan, Individually.1 Hyundai contends the circuit court erred in admitting the opinion testimony ... More...   $0 (09-20-2015 - VA)

Greenbelt, MD - IT Professional Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Installing and Activating Malicious Code

Used the Malicious Code to Crash The Website Of A Former Employer On Three Separate Occasions

U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Anand Venkatraman, age 41, of Clarksburg, Maryland to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for in... More...   $0 (09-18-2015 - MD)

In  addition  to  reconstruction  costs,  WTCP  and  7WTCo.  also  seek 2  
consequential damages. The district court heard testimony about the proper way to allocate the 8  
insurance recoveries between the different types of insurance claims Plaintiffs 9  
submitted, and heard the opinions of two economists — Professor Steven Shavell 10  
for  the  Plaintiffs  and  Professor  D... More...   $0 (09-18-2015 - NY)

In February 2008, Ray Sink Pipeline Company (“Ray Sink”) was acting as general
contractor for a project on Route 419 in Roanoke County. The Route 419 project required Ray
Sink to lay water lines along the right edge of Route 419’s southbound lanes. To accomplish this
task, Ray Sink needed to cut a channel in the existing asphalt at the road’s edge.
Ray Sink hired S.R. Draper ... More...   $0 (09-18-2015 - VA)

San Diego, CA - Broker Immediately Remanded into Custody to Begin Serving 33 Month Sentence

Stock broker Sunil Sharma of Carlsbad was sentenced in federal court today to 33 months in custody for stealing more than $6 million from local investors by falsely claiming their funds were safely placed in conservative investments when, in reality, he was pursuing a risky day trading strategy th... More...   $0 (09-15-2015 - CA)

In 2001, Aldo Vera, Jr., acting as representative of his father Aldo Vera, 
Sr.’s estate, invoked the terrorism‐exception provision of the Foreign Sovereign 
Immunities Act (“FSIA”) to sue the Republic of Cuba in Florida state court for 
money damages resulting from his father’s 1976 murder in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  
See 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(7); Final Judgment at 1–4, Vera v.... More...   $0 (09-13-2015 - NY)