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)

This proceeding arises out of a qui tam action against Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. to impose civil penalties for violation of the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (IFPA), Insurance Code section 1871 et seq. The relators allege Bristol-Myers employed runners and cappers to induce physicians to prescribe its drugs to their patients.

The California Insurance Commissioner and related petitioners s... More...   $0 (06-27-2014 - CA)

Our commitment as Americans to the principles of liberty, due process of law, and equal protection of the laws is made live by our adherence to the Constitution of the United States of America. Historical challenges to these principles ultimately culminated in the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment nearly one-and-a-half centuries ago. This Amendment extends the guarantees of due process and equa... More...   $0 (06-26-2014 - )

¶1 This proceeding involves a request for an extraordinary writ that is recast as appeal from an order in a guardianship that adjudicated the wards' selection of counsel and adjudicated a motion concerning unsupervised visitation and selection of a guardian.This proceeding also involves two requests for extraordinary relief that were made during the appeal.1 The first involves an emergency motion... More...   $0 (06-24-2014 - OK)

Following a bench trial, the court awarded plaintiff Esther Kim $60,000 against her former employer, defendant Konad USA Distribution, Inc. (Konad), and her former boss, defendant Dong Whang. Defendants appeal, citing the alleged failure of plaintiff to meet certain “jurisdictional” prerequisites (e.g., exhaustion of administrative remedies, proving Konad had five employees) in her sexual hara... More...   $0 (06-12-2014 - CA)

Timothy Berban appeals the trial court’s Order in Suit Affecting Parent-Child Relationship rendered in the underlying modification proceeding. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

BACKGROUND

Timothy Berban and Leticia Berban are the parents of two children, E.B. and A.B. Timothy and Leticia were divorced in 2005. In the Final Decree of Divorce, the parties were named joint ma... More...   $0 (06-04-2014 - TX)

In four issues, appellant, Adrian Broncha Alexander, challenges the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Here, appellant was charged by indictment with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, in an amount less than one gram in a drug-free zone, a second-degree felony. See TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 481.115 (West 2010); see ... More...   $0 (05-29-2014 - TX)

Appellants James Kumar, Ranveer Singh,
Asegedew Gefe, and Abbas Kosymov brought a class action lawsuit against their
employer, Gate Gourmet Inc., alleging two common law torts and two violations of
Washington's Law Against Discrimination (the WLAD), chapter 49.60 RCW. The
lawsuit stems from Gate Gourmet's employee meal policy, which bars employees
from bringing in their own foo... More...   $0 (05-22-2014 - WA)

Responding to a police dispatch, Pennsylvania State Trooper Jeremy Carroll and another trooper proceeded to the home of Andrew and Karen Carman to search for a man who had stolen two loaded handguns and a car with New Jersey plates. Upon arriving at the Carmans’ residence, the troopers bypassed the front door and went directly to the back of the house and onto a deck adjoining the kitchen. On th... More...   $0 (05-16-2014 - PA)

The minors appeal from orders of the juvenile court placing them in long-term foster care after finding both the parental beneficial relationship and the sibling exceptions to the preference for adoption applied. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 366.26, 395.)1

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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We granted appellants’ application to stay ... More...   $0 (05-14-2014 - CA)

Defendant and appellant Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (Indiana), the surety on a bail bond, appeals an order denying its motion to set aside the summary judgment on a forfeited $625,000 bail bond.1

The essential issue presented is whether the summary judgment on the bail forfeiture is void because it was entered while an appeal was pending from an order denying Indiana’s mot... More...   $0 (05-08-2014 - CA)

The League of Wilderness Defenders/Blue Mountain Biodiversity Project and the Hells Canyon Preservation Council (collectively “the LOWD plaintiffs”) appeal from the district court’s denial of their motion to preliminarily enjoin the Snow Basin logging project. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). We affirm in part and reverse in part the district court’s order, and remand th... More...   $0 (05-08-2014 - OR)

George Alan Kapelle appeals from his judgment of conviction for manufacturing marijuana and unlawful possession of a firearm. Specifically, he argues the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

I.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

In July 2011, officers received a confidential tip that a wanted felon was hiding in an abandoned trai... More...   $0 (05-07-2014 - ID)

This case requires us to decide whether the petitioner Ricardo Allen Gill can sustain a collateral challenge to his order of deportation, which is a defense to a prosecution for illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). The resolution of this question turns on whether the Supreme Court’s ruling in Vartelas v. Holder, 132 S.Ct. 1479 (2012), requires us to find that Gill is elig... More...   $0 (05-07-2014 - NY)

Hakimullah Sarpas and Zulmai Nazarzai operated a scheme by which they promised customers they would obtain loan modifications from lenders and prevent foreclosure of the customers’ homes. They operated this scheme through their jointly owned company, Statewide Financial Group, Inc. (SFGI), which did business as US Homeowners Assistance (USHA). Sharon Fasela1 was, among other things, the office m... More...   $0 (05-06-2014 - CA)

In this interlocutory appeal, appellants, TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. and Patricia Chapoy, challenge the trial court’s granting of a temporary anti-suit injunction prohibiting

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appellants from pursuing a lawsuit in Mexico against appellees, Gloria de los Angeles Trevino Ruiz, individually and on behalf of her minor child, Gabriel de Jesus Trevino, and Armando Ismael Gomez Martinez. ... More...   $0 (05-02-2014 - TX)

¶1 Cody Nielsen was convicted of the aggravated murder of Trisha Autry and sentenced to life without parole. On this appeal, Nielsen raises a series of challenges to the venue for his trial—a Cache County trial with a jury comprised of Box Elder County residents. He also questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sus-tain lesser offenses of kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping and the suffici... More...   $0 (04-29-2014 - UT)

Jessica Woods appeals from the final decree of divorce dissolving her marriage to Lucas Woods and determining conservatorship of the parties’ children, L.K.L.W. and S.B.L.W. Lucas did not file a brief in this appeal. In one issue, Jessica argues that the trial court erred when it denied her motion for a new trial. Because we agree, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and remand for a new ... More...   $0 (04-25-2014 - TX)

The Chapter 7 Trustee in this matter (the “Trustee”) filed a complaint with the bankruptcy court seeking to recover a post-petition transfer to the Bank of Utah (the “Bank”). The bankruptcy court granted summary judgment in favor of the Bank, concluding the Bank was a fully secured creditor and, thus, the transfer caused no damage to the Estate. After the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP... More...   $0 (04-15-2014 - UT)

Chad Dickerson asks that we dissolve a temporary injunction which, among other restrictions, prohibits him from working for direct competitors of his former employer and from competing with it for certain sales. We conclude the trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting a temporary injunction to preserve the status quo; nevertheless, because the restrictions placed on Dickerson by the tr... More...   $0 (04-10-2014 - TX)

In this interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction, Appellant Marta Carrejo Martinez claims the trial court abused its discretion by excluding her from real property located at 2109 Flemming Drive, Fort Worth, Texas, (the Property) and by enjoining her from coming within 300 feet of the Property. We affirm the trial court’s temporary injunction.

1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

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There is no right more basic in our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. Citizens can exercise that right in a variety of ways: They can run for office themselves, vote, urge others to vote for a particular candidate, volunteer to work on a campaign, and contribute to a candidate’s campaign. This case is about the last of those options.

The right to p... More...   $0 (04-02-2014 - DC)

Appellant Tranter, Inc. appeals the trial court’s order denying its application for a temporary injunction against appellees James A. Liss and Paul Mueller Company (PMC).2 We reverse and remand.

1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

2This is an accelerated interlocutory appeal. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann § 51.014(a)(4) (West Supp. 2013).

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Background Facts

Trant... More...   $0 (03-27-2014 - TX)

The court previously issued its opinion in this case on October 3, 2013. Dolgencorp, Inc. v. Miss. Band of Choctaw Indians, 732 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2013). We hereby withdraw the previous opinion and substitute the following. Dolgencorp, Inc. and Dollar General Corp. (collectively “Dolgencorp”) brought an action in the district court seeking to enjoin John Doe, a member of the Mississippi Band o... More...   $0 (03-14-2014 - MS)

While answering a casting call for a low-budget amateur film doesn’t often lead to stardom, it also rarely turns an aspiring actress into the subject of a fatwa. But that’s exactly what happened to Cindy Lee Garcia when she agreed to act in a film with the working title “Desert Warrior.” The film’s writer and producer, Mark Basseley Youssef—who also goes by the names Nakoula Basseley N... More...   $0 (02-28-2014 - WA)