This is an interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction that was sought by the State and the City of Houston to abate a common nuisance at Treasures, a gentlemen’s club, pursuant to Chapter 125 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §§ 125.001—.047. Appellants raise five issues challenging the propriety of the temporary injunction order and some of... More...   $0 (01-13-2013 - TX)

The Plaintiff-Appellant JSLG, Inc. (“JSLG”) brought suit against the Defendants-Appellees, the City of Waco (“the City”) and Randy Childers,1 Building Official for the City, raising constitutional challenges to an ordinance governing sexually oriented businesses. The district court granted summary judgment for the City and denied JSLG’s request for a preliminary injunction. Finding no re... More...   $0 (01-11-2013 - TX)

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Sunny Rae Schonholtz 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: 01/03/2013

Party Name: Disposition Information:

SCHONHOLTZ, SUNNY RAE
Disposed: DEFERRED, 03/26/2013. Guilty Plea.
Count as Disposed:ENGAGING I... More...   $0 (01-08-2013 - OK)

Plaintiffs-Appellants Randy Alman (“Alman”), Michael Barnes (“Barnes”), and the Triangle Foundation sued several Michigan law enforcement officials, the City of Westland, and Wayne County for their respective involvement in Alman’s arrest and the seizure of Barnes’s vehicle during an undercover operation. The district court granted the Defendants’ motion for summary judgment after fi... More...   $0 (01-08-2013 - MI)

27 The defendants, the United States Department of Justice
28 ("DOJ"), the United States Department of Health and Human
29 Services ("HHS"), and the United States Agency for International
30 Development ("USAID"), appeal from a judgment of the United
31 States District Court for the Southern District of New York
2
1 (Victor Marrero, Judge) granting a motion for summary judg... More...   $0 (09-19-2012 - NY)

Defendant-Appellant Tracy Harris (“Harris”) was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) of conspiracy to commit a racketeering offense in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), and sentenced to 188 months in prison. On appeal, he challenges the substantive correctness of the jury instructions on the elements of § 1962(d) conspiracy; the sufficiency of t... More...   $0 (09-19-2012 - KS)

Phoenix, Arizona civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued the City of Phoenix on a planning and zoning theory.

¶1 This case involves the intersection of municipal zoning regulations and the right of tattoo artists to ply their trade. After the City of Mesa denied Ryan and Laetitia Coleman a permit to operate a tattoo parlor, the Colemans filed this action alleging violation... More...   $0 (09-07-2012 - AZ)

State of Oklahoma v. Hannah McDonell

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: PAN, PROCURING FOR PROSTITUTION , in violation of 21 O.S. 1081
Date Of Offense: 06/19/2012

Party Name: Disposition Information:

MCDONELL, HANNAH
Disposed: DEFERRED, 08/06/2012.
Count as Disposed:PROCURING FOR PROSTITUTION (PAN)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1081

Count # 2.
Co... More...   $0 (08-06-2012 - OK)

26 This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment against the plaintiff
27 and its prior grant of a motion to dismiss one count of the amended complaint. Plaintiff-
28 Appellant Linda Velez (“Velez”) brought this action against Betsy Sanchez (“Sanchez”),
29 Sanchez’s sister Shari Munoz, and Sanchez’s and Shari’s mother Yolanda Munoz under the
... More...   $0 (07-31-2012 - NY)

Daniel Gomez appeals the trial court's judgment granting a directed verdict in favor of appellees Ron Brackett and Rose Rocha on his intentional infliction of emotional distress claim. On appeal, Gomez argues (1) the trial court lacked personal and subject matter jurisdiction over appellees' counterclaims against him and his girlfriend, Amy Dill, (2) the evidence negates appellees' right to judgme... More...   $0 (07-27-2012 - TX)

The State of Oklahoma charged Donna Marie Beaty with:

Count # 2.
Count as Filed: PWSD, OPERATE PLACE OF PROSTITUTION W/ IN 1000FT OF SCHOOL , in violation of 21 O.S. 1031
Date Of Offense: 05/01/2012

Party Name: Disposition Information:

BEATY, DONNA MARIE
Disposed: CONVICTION, 07/26/2012. Guilty Plea.
Count as Disposed:ENGAGING IN PROSTITUTION (PWSD... More...   $0 (07-26-2012 - OK)

¶1 Eighteen-month-old Wonzie Barrientos’s mother, Jessica Nelson, was killed in a car accident, the tragic result of a high-speed chase in which an Ogden City police officer pursued a speeding car that ultimately crashed into Nelson’s car. Plaintiff sued the police officer and Ogden City for negligence. Ogden City defended the case on the ground that it had governmental immunity and, if it di... More...   $0 (06-08-2012 - UT)

The State of Oklahoma charged Sandra Leanne Price with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: COMPU, VIOLATION OF OK STATUTE VIA COMPUTER , in violation of 21 O.S. 1958 Date Of Offense: 03/02/2012

Party Name: Disposition Information: PRICE, SANDRA LEANNE Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/01/2012. Guilty Plea. Count as Disposed:VIOLATION OF OK STATUTE VIA COMPUTER (COMPU) Violation of 21 O.S. 1958<... More...   $0 (06-01-2012 - OK)

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Joseph P. Ebbing (Ebbing), appeals pro se from a decision of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas which declared his property a public nuisance and ordered the demolition of buildings located at 419 and 423 Sycamore Street (rear) Hamilton, Ohio. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the judgment as modified.

{¶ 2} Plaintiff-appellee, the city of Hamilton... More...   $0 (05-21-2012 - OH)

Id. 5/14-1(d). The offense is normally a class 4 felony but is elevated t... More...   $0 (05-08-2012 - IL)

The plaintiff, Robert Pelkey, appeals the decision of the Superior Court (Garfunkel, J.) granting the motion for partial summary judgment of the defendant, Dan’s City Used Cars, Inc. d/b/a Dan’s City Auto Body. We reverse and remand.

I. Background

The following facts are drawn from the record. In March 2009, the plaintiff brought suit against both his landlord, Colonial Village, ... More...   $0 (04-10-2012 - NH)

The State of Oklahoma charged Amber Renee Bennett with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: DU8II, UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED DRUG - METHAMPHETAMINE , in violation of 63 O.S. 2-402
Date Of Offense: 01/04/2012

Party Name: Disposition Information:

BENNETT, AMBER RENEE
Disposed: DEFERRED, 03/05/2012. Guilty Plea.
Count as Disposed:UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF... More...   $0 (03-05-2012 - OK)

Appellants Matlock Place Apartments, L.P., JR TX 1, LLC, Hagop Kofdarali, Individually, and Robbie L. Sebern Burns, Individually appeal the trial court’s judgment rendered on a jury’s verdict in favor of Appellee Jeffry Druce Properties, LLC (Druce Properties).[1] Appellants contend in four issues and numerous sub-issues that the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the j... More...   $0 (01-12-2012 - TX)

Billy Joe Sowell was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death by a three-judge panel in 1983. At sentencing, counsel’s mitigation strategy was to portray Sowell as a good person who lost his temper under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Counsel pursued this strategy despite having available the reports of several court-appointed mental health experts, which hinted at Sowell’s d... More...   $0 (11-15-2011 - OH)

This is a tragic case all around, for the defendant and his victims. When Matthew Steffes was just fourteen years old, he ran into Joshua Howard, the former boyfriend of a cousin. Howard was twenty-one. Steffes left an abusive, dysfunctional family when Howard invited Steffes to live with him, but the price was steep as Howard prostituted Steffes to have sex with an older man. Howard was in a sex... More...   $0 (11-04-2011 - IL)

Jeffrey S. Gananian appeals from a judgment dismissing his cause of action for declaratory relief against former San Mateo County District Attorney James P. Fox. Gananian sought a declaration that Education Code section 15288 required Fox to investigate and prosecute alleged violations of law associated with the expenditure of voter-approved school bond funds. We disagree, and affirm the judgment.... More...   $0 (10-21-2011 - CA)

¶ 1 Plaintiffs Andrew Nadhir, Frank Battaglia, and Jason Welch filed suit against defendants
Bilha Salomon and Steven T. Sims, alleging that defendants failed to return plaintiffs’
security deposit at the conclusion of plaintiffs’ lease in violation of the City of Evanston
Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (Evanston Municipal Code § 5-3-1 et seq. (eff.
Feb. 2008)) (ER... More...   $0 (10-20-2011 - IL)

E.B.S. Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a/ Gateway News and Video, Venus Video, Eros Video, and A.V.W., Ltd. d/b/a Adult Video Warehouse, Appellants, appeal the trial court's summary judgment in favor of the City of El Paso, Appellee, stemming from the former's challenge to the constitutionality of the latter's sexually-oriented business ordinance. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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Debra Parks, the Appellant, filed a one-count complaint in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City alleging that she had been “wrongful[ly] terminat[ed] . . . in violation of public policy” from her job at Alpharma, Inc., the Appellee, a pharmaceutical company incorporated in Delaware, which had been headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey until being acquired in November of 2008 by King Pharmac... More...   $0 (07-19-2011 - MD)

This suit under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, pits 23 Liberian children against the Firestone Natural Rubber Company, which operates a 118,000-acre rubber plantation in Liberia through a subsidiary; various Firestone affiliates and officers were also joined as defendants. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of all the defendants, but the plaintiffs have appealed only ... More...   $0 (07-11-2011 - IN)