Ronald DeBoer started a trucking business, deBoer Transportation, in 1967. He and other members of his family managed it for 40 years, but by 2007 he wanted to sell the business and retire. (There were then three affiliated firms: deBoer, Inc.; deBoer Transportation Inc.; and deBoer Capital Associates Inc.; we refer to them collectively as deBoer.) After one potential sale fell through, Peter Deni... More...   $0 (05-13-2011 - WI)

Appellant George Geis d/b/a Rio Architects (“Geis”) appeals from a judgment requiring him to pay appellee Colina Del Rio, LP (“Colina”) $881,958.00 in damages plus interest, attorney’s fees, and costs in a suit involving an architectural contract. Colina sued Geis for rescission of the contract, claiming the contract was unlawful because Rio Architects failed to employ or associate with ... More...   $0 (05-04-2011 - TX)

Workmen‘s Auto Insurance Company (company) sued Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc. (Carpenter) for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract. After the trial court eliminated the fiduciary duty claim during pretrial proceedings, a jury decided in favor of Carpenter. The company appeals. It contends that the trial court erred when it granted summary adjudication regarding the allegat... More...   $0 (05-04-2011 - CA)

A group of former captains fromthe Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) sued state and union officials alleging that the defendants unlawfully punished them for seeking to organize with a rival union. One of the defendants is former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Much of the litigation below, which began in June 2005, focused on plaintiffs’ efforts to depose Governor Blagojevich. After ... More...   $0 (05-03-2011 - IL)

In these consolidated interlocutory appeals, the City of North Richland Hills (the City) challenges the trial courts’ respective denials of the City’s partial pleas to the jurisdiction in the lawsuits filed against it by Appellees Hometown Urban Partners, Ltd. (Urban Partners), Arcadia Land Partners 25, Ltd., and Arcadia Holdings (collectively, Arcadia).[1] The City contends that governmental... More...   $0 (04-28-2011 - TX)

After a nonjury trial, Sam Rodgers Properties, Inc. (SRP), appeals an amended final judgment entered in favor of Linda Lan Chmura in the amount of $355,742.55, plus interest. We affirm the portion of the amended final judgment that complies with our prior mandate in Chmura v. Sam Rodgers Props., Inc., 2 So. 3d 984 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008), which orders that the previous foreclosure sale and certificate ... More...   $0 (04-27-2011 - FL)

The plaintiff, Michael Piteau, brought this action against the defendants, the board of education of the city of Hartford (board of education), Local 566, Council 4, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (Local 566), and Council 4, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (Council 4), alleging that Local 566 and Council 41 had breached t... More...   $0 (04-19-2011 - CT)

¶1 This case concerns a dispute between divorced parties over the ex-husband's paternity of a child born during the marriage. The parties, Peter Andrew Clark and Jamie Michelle Clark Edens, were married from October 10, 1998, until their divorce on September 6, 2002. Ms. Edens gave birth to one child, M.A.C., on January 8, 2001, during the parties' marriage. Mr. Clark contends he is the presumpti... More...   $0 (04-12-2011 - OK)

Plaintiff-Appellant Angeline Cacchillo appeals from an 8 October 22, 2010 order of the United States District Court 9 for the Northern District of New York (McAvoy, J.) denying 10 Cacchillo’s motion for a preliminary injunction for lack of 11 standing. For the reasons stated below, we find that 12 Cacchillo has standing to pursue a preliminary injunction 13 and that her claim, contrary to Defend... More...   $0 (04-04-2011 - )

Anchorage, Alaska criminal law lawyers represented Defendant changed with first-degree murder.

        We consolidated these two cases to resolve the following question: What is the effect of the death of a criminal defendant while an appeal is pending? John Carlin III was convicted of first-degree murder. He appealed his conviction to the court of appeals and died before the open... More...   $0 (03-25-2011 - AK)

A tree once grew in Upper Arlington. When the City decided to cut it down, the adjacent homeowner protested. First in front of the City’s Tree Commission, then in state court, ultimately in federal court, the parties vied over the propriety of removing the tree and eventually over whether the courts should enjoin the City from moving ahead with its plans. Soon after the federal district court ru... More...   $0 (03-25-2011 - OH)

We are called upon to decide whether the City of Honolulu violated the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution when it repudiated several agreements to convey property to private citizens in connection with its leasehold conversion program.

I

A

In 1991, the City and County of Honolulu (the “City”) enacted an ordinance, later codified at Chapter 38 of the Revised... More...   $0 (03-22-2011 - HI)

A former Oldham County paramedic who claimed she was sexually harassed by her boss while working for Oldham Emergency Medical Services has lost her lawsuit in U.S. District Court.

A jury ruled Wednesday in favor of the Oldham County Ambulance Taxing District, the lone remaining defendant in the suit filed in 2008 by Kristina Frederick.

Frederick alleged that former EMS director L... More...   $0 (03-19-2011 - KY)

¶1 The Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County, granted summary judgment to Flathead Concrete Products, Inc. (FCP), on the grounds that § 39-71-411, MCA, the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA or Act), bars Carol Walters’ (Walters) survivorship and wrongful death claims against FCP arising from the work-related death of her son, Timothy Walters (Tim). ... More...   $0 (03-16-2011 - MT)

Karim El-Ghazzawy brought suit against Officer Kay Berthiaume under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violating his constitutional rights after Berthiaume arrested El-Ghazzawy due to his alleged sale of counterfeit watches to a pawn shop. The district court1 denied Berthiaume’s motion for summary judgment, concluding she was not entitled to qualified immunity. Berthiaume contends the court erred because it ... More...   $0 (03-15-2011 - MN)

Plaintiffs Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. (“OOIDA”), and Carl Harp and Michael Wiese, as representatives of the certified class of owner-operators, seek to enforce a final judgment obtained in a class action brought on behalf of independent owner-operator truck drivers against a regulated motor carrier, debtor Arctic Express Inc. (“Arctic”), for maintenance escrow fun... More...   $0 (03-03-2011 - OH)

This is an interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction. Appellants, Yosef Retta, Mulualem Fantahun, Dr. Girma Wolde Rufael, Abebe Ewnetu, Eyoel Negga, Abera Fitta, Mrs. Tewabech Tadesse, Mr. Bizuayehu Getachew, and Mrs. Solome Mekonnen, are members of the board of trustees of The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Debre Meheret St. Michael's Church in Dallas. Appellees are former members of the chur... More...   $0 (03-03-2011 - TX)

This civil racketeering suit has some factual overlap with the federal prosecution of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, now awaiting retrial on various criminal counts that were tried last summer but resulted in a hung jury. Four riverboat casinos claim they are victims of a pay-to-play scheme engineered by Blagojevich and John Johnston, the owner of two Illinois horse-racing tracks.1 The ... More...   $0 (03-02-2011 - IL)

Plaintiff Greg Shrader appeals from a series of orders culminating in a judgment dismissing this action in its entirety for lack of personal jurisdiction over any of the named defendants. We affirm for reasons explained below.

I. PLEADINGS AND DISTRICT COURT PROCEEDINGS

Mr. Shrader brought this tort action pro se, asserting claims for defamation, false-light invasion of privacy, inte... More...   $0 (02-28-2011 - OK)

The individual Plaintiffs are a group of elderly, low-income tenants of a former project-based, federally subsidized Section 8 housing complex. They argue that federal law gives them a right to remain in the complex and to pay a portion of their rent by using federally funded “enhanced vouchers.” Defendants, who own the housing complex, argue that the tenants have no right to remain in the com... More...   $0 (02-25-2011 - CA)

Defendants Aqeel Yusuf and Mohammed Siddiqui appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County against defendant Yusuf for fraud, and against defendant Siddiqui for breach of contract, in which the court entered an award of rescission in favor of plaintiff and ordered a return to plaintiff of $168,724.31 for damages. Defendants contend that the judgment of the trial court against defendan... More...   $0 (02-25-2011 - IL)

Appellant, Elene B. Glassman, appeals from a final order in garnishment obtained by appellee, Meryl B. Goodfriend, to satisfy an underlying judgment. Glassman, an attorney, appears pro se in this appeal. Goodfriend contends this appeal is frivolous and requests sanctions. We affirm the final order in garnishment and assess $2,500 in sanctions against Glassman.

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Jack Gindi filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code while the Colorado Court of Appeals was considering two appeals arising out of a lawsuit brought against him by Andreas Chizzali, his former partner in two companies. The bankruptcy court refused to lift the automatic stay to permit further proceedings regarding the two issues raised by Chizzali in his appeal;... More...   $0 (02-21-2011 - CO)

Round Rock Life Connection Church, Inc., Teddy J. Straub, Orlena Mehrabian, Hossain Mehrabian, Luciano Rivera, Tim Hubble, Judy Hubble, and Mary Jo Greenough (collectively, “the Landowners”) sought both a temporary injunction enjoining the City of Round Rock (“Round Rock”) from annexing their properties and a judgment declaring void ordinances adopted by Round Rock that annexed their prop... More...   $0 (02-18-2011 - tx)

In these consolidated interlocutory appeals, the City of North Richland Hills (the City) challenges the trial courts’ respective denials of the City’s partial pleas to the jurisdiction in the lawsuits filed against it by Appellees Hometown Urban Partners, Ltd. (Urban Partners), Arcadia Land Partners 25, Ltd., and Arcadia Holdings (collectively, Arcadia).[1] The City contends that governmental... More...   $0 (02-17-2011 - TX)