Plaintiffs-Appellants—Bushco Corp; Companions, L.L.C.; and TT II, Inc. (“Appellants�)—are escort services licensed as sexually oriented businesses. Defendant-Appellee is the Attorney General of the State of Utah (“Attorney General�).1

Appellants brought a lawsuit in federal district court for the district of Utah, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. They claimed that cer... More...   $0 (09-09-2013 - UT)

Norman, OK - State of Oklahoma vs. Katrina Marie Madden:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: DU8IV, poss of cds, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-402
Date of Offense: 01/20/2013
Party Name Disposition Information
Madden, Katrina Marie Disposed: DEFERRED, 08/29/2013. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: poss of cds(DU8IV)
Violation of 63 O.S. 2-402


Count # 2. Count as Fil... More...   $0 (08-29-2013 - OK)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. LEISA MICHELLE KARNES

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: DU8II, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DRUG - METHAMPHETAMINE , in violation of 63 O.S. 2-402
Date Of Offense: 10/19/2012

Party Name: Disposition Information:

KARNES, LEISA MICHELLE
Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/21/2013. Guilty Plea.
Count as Disposed:UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED... More...   $0 (06-21-2013 - OK)

The State of New York charged Vincent George, Sr. and Vincent George, Sr. with promoting prostitution, money laundering and sex trafficking.

New York Penal Law Secton 230.34 Sex Trafficking provides:

A person is guilty of sex trafficking if he or she intentionally
advances or profits from prostitution by:
1. unlawfully providing to a person who is patronized,... More...   $0 (06-20-2013 - NY)

Evelin Solis-Gonzalez petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge’s decision to deny her asylum application. We deny the petition. Solis-Gonzalez is a native and citizen of Guatemala. She entered the United States without inspection in January 2010. Days later, the government charged her as removable for being present in the United States w... More...   $0 (06-19-2013 - )

The United States of America charged Tarran Arnell Brinson, age 24, with attempted sex trafficking of children in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1591; interstate travel and transportation in aid of racketeering enterprise in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1952; sex trafficking of children in violation of 18 U.S.C. 191 and 18 U.S.C. 1594; attempted sex trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951; coercion and entic... More...   $0 (05-28-2013 - OK)

The issue presented for our review is whether a municipal ordinance criminalizing “loitering with intent to commit prostitution� is facially unconstitutional. We find that the ordinance is overbroad and vague, and as such, we affirm the trial court which correctly found this ordinance unconstitutional.

Appellee was charged with violating the City of West Palm Beach ordinance regarding â... More...   $0 (05-08-2013 - FL)

In this appeal, appellant Christopher R. Coker challenges the denial of his petition for provisional discharge from civil commitment. Coker was indeterminately committed in 2000 as a Sexually Dangerous Person as a result of a series of sex offenses involving 15 to 17-year-old girls. Coker petitioned for provisional discharge from civil commitment. After weighing the evidence presented by Coker and... More...   $0 (05-01-2013 - MN)

Statutory language is important. It takes on added significance when a person‘s freedom is at stake. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigration offi-cials ―shall take into custody any‖ deportable alien who has committed various crimes ―when the alien is re-leased‖ from detention for those crimes. 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c)(1). The Act requires officials to hold such aliens without a... More...   $0 (04-25-2013 - NJ)

A jury convicted Rodney Goodwin of attempted transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity, under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) and (e). He challenges the sufficency of the evidence and the jury instructions. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.

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In June 2010, Goodwin began an online relationship with 16-year-old J.B. through Mbuzzy, a so... More...   $0 (04-18-2013 - ND)

The State of Oklahoma charged Clarence F. Holden with:

ount # 1.
Count as Filed: HT, HUMAN TRAFFICKING , in violation of 21 O.S. 748
Date Of Offense: 01/29/2013

Party Name: Disposition Information:

HOLDEN, CLARENCE F
Disposed: DISMISSED, 03/06/2013. Dismissed- Request of the State.
Count as Disposed:HUMAN TRAFFICKING (HT)
Violation of 21 O.S. 748<... More...   $0 (04-17-2013 - OK)

The State of Oklahoma charged Clarence F. Holden with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: HT, HUMAN TRAFFICKING , in violation of 21 O.S. 748
Date Of Offense: 01/29/2013

Party Name: Disposition Information:

HOLDEN, CLARENCE F
Disposed: DISMISSED, 03/06/2013. Dismissed- Request of the State.
Count as Disposed:HUMAN TRAFFICKING (HT)
Violation of 21 O.S. 74... More...   $0 (04-17-2013 - OK)

Beleal Garcia-Gonzalez (“Garciaâ€�) appeals his conviction and sentence of 360 months of imprisonment and $600 in assessment fees, challenging: (1) the propriety of a supplemental jury instruction and the sufficiency of the evidence in support of his jury convictions on three counts of child sex trafficking; (2) the calculation of his sentence under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines; and (3) three ... More...   $0 (04-17-2013 - TX)

At his trial in 2009, Defendant-appellant Israel Weingarten was convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (John Gleeson, Judge) of two counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), and three counts of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, in violation ... More...   $0 (04-16-2013 - NY)

Defendant-appellant Mi Sun Cho was convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kimba M. Wood, Judge) of one count of conspiring to violate sex trafficking laws in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2422 and two substantive sex trafficking counts in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2. Cho raises several challenges to her conviction. First, sh... More...   $0 (04-16-2013 - NY)

Richard Bensinger produced and screened a film about Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC. Claiming the film conveyed several defamatory statements, Spacecon filed suit against Bensinger in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, based on diversity jurisdiction, asserting a state-law claim for defamation per se. The district court granted Bensinger’s motion for summary judg... More...   $0 (04-16-2013 - CO)

A jury found appellant Adriana Morales Hutson guilty of prostitution. The trial court sentenced Hutson to 180 days’ confinement in the Harris County Jail, suspended the confinement, and placed Hutson on community supervision for two years. In one issue on appeal, Hutson contends the evidence is insufficient to support her conviction. We affirm.

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On December 19, 2010, Offi... More...   $0 (04-04-2013 - TX)

11 Plaintiffs Kent Singer, Thomas Nollner, and Jonathan
12 Decker appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court
13 for the Northern District of New York (David N. Hurd, Judge)
14 granting summary judgment to the defendants on the plaintiffs'
15 First Amendment retaliation claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C.
16 § 1983. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants, wh... More...   $0 (04-02-2013 - )

In 1992, a Tennessee jury convicted Petitioner-Appellant Henry Hodges of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death.

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No. 09-5021 Hodges v. Colson Page 2

The state courts upheld the conviction and sentence on appeal and denied Hodges’s petition for post-conviction relief. Hodges then petitioned for federal habeas relief, which the district court denied. Hodges now appea... More...   $0 (03-26-2013 - TN)

A jury found defendant and appellant Russell Mecano, a police officer, guilty of solicitation of prostitution, sexual battery by restraint, sexual penetration by force or duress, and sexual penetration under threat by a public official. In the published portion of this opinion, we consider and reject Mecano‟s contention that because he never explicitly requested sex for money, there was insuffic... More...   $0 (03-22-2013 - CA)

In 2005, William Scott MacDonald was convicted after a bench trial in the Circuit Court of the City of Colonial Heights, Virginia, of two offenses: the misdemeanor offense of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, in contravention of Virginia Code section 18.2-371; and the felony offense of violating the Commonwealth’s criminal solicitation statute, found in section 18.2-29. The criminal so... More...   $0 (03-13-2013 - VA)

The United States of America charged Currea Garcia, Gloria N. "Diana" Giammalva, Ignacio Ijom-Brito, Juan "Fernando" Rosales Garza, Semaias Samuel Sanchez-Ajin, Dovereyne "Tony" Velasquez-Lopez, and Isr4ael Velaquez-Ramirez with sex trafficking conspiracy and enticing and coercing others in engage in prostitution.

The Government claimed that defendants illegally imported women Mexico and ... More...   $0 (03-13-2013 - OK)

Tulsa criminal defense lawyer Mike Manning represented Rhoda Marie Holbrook who was charged by the State of Oklahoma with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: PROS, ENGAGING IN PROSTITUTION WITHIN 1000FT OF SCHOOL / CHURCH , in violation of 21 O.S. 1031 D
Date Of Offense: 12/21/2012More...   $0 (02-28-2013 - OK)

Appellant, Bryan S. Foster doing business as Jaguar’s Gold Club (Foster),[1] appeals the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of the City of El Paso, Appellee, stemming from Foster’s challenge to the constitutionality of the City’s sexually-oriented business ordinance. Foster also appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to strike the City’s expert testimony.

BACKGROUN... More...   $0 (02-21-2013 - TX)

The issue before this Court is whether Florida’s absolute privilege, which shields judges, counsel, parties, and witnesses from liability for alleged defamatory statements made in the course of a judicial proceeding, extends to statements made by an attorney during ex-parte, out-of-court questioning of a potential, nonparty witness while investigating matters connected to a pending lawsuit. In D... More...   $0 (02-14-2013 - FL)