In this case, a member of the United States Navy seeks to recover damages from the company that allegedly towed and sold his SUV while he was deployed. The plaintiff initially claimed that § 307 of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), 50 U.S.C. app. § 537, which prohibits enforcement of liens against servicemembers during military service, afforded him an implied private right of action f... More...   $0 (02-14-2011 - VA)

Appellants Pablo Delapaz and Michael Sarkauskas work for the City of Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation (“DSS”). Under DSS Commissioner Al Sanchez, Delapaz and Sarkauskas were temporarily assigned to “act up”—meaning to work above their titled position for additional pay. Shortly after Michael Picardi replaced Sanchez as DSS Commissioner, appellee Robert Richardson (the Dep... More...   $0 (02-14-2011 - IL)

We consider whether a preemption provision enacted inthe National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986(NCVIA)1 bars state-law design-defect claims againstvaccine manufacturers.

I

A

For the last 66 years, vaccines have been subject to the same federal premarket approval process as prescription drugs, and compensation for vaccine-related injuries has been left largely to the Sta... More...   $0 (02-11-2011 - DC)

¶1 Appellant, Duncan Public Utilities Authority, d/b/a Duncan Power and Light (DP&L) appeals from an October 6, 2009, Order Granting Temporary Injunction.

FACTS

¶2 Appellee, Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), is an investor owned electric utility company which has provided power within the municipal limits of Duncan by utility franchise since 1973. DP&L is a competing pu... More...   $0 (02-10-2011 - OK)

¶1 Appellant, Duncan Public Utilities Authority, d/b/a Duncan Power and Light (DP&L) appeals from an October 6, 2009, Order Granting Temporary Injunction.

FACTS

¶2 Appellee, Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), is an investor owned electric utility company which has provided power within the municipal limits of Duncan by utility franchise since 1973. DP&L is a competing public... More...   $0 (02-10-2011 - OK)

Appellants Gregory R. Mattox and Barbara Wilkerson appeal the trial court’s granting of Appellees Clifford Jackson and Eleanor Jackson’s oral application for temporary injunction. In eight points of error, appellants argue that the trial court erred by: (1) granting an order for a temporary restraining order based on an unverified oral application; (2) granting a request for a temporary injun... More...   $0 (02-03-2011 - TX)

The defendant in a mortgage foreclosure action filed by BNY Mellon appeals a trial court’s denial of his motion under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540(b) to vacate a voluntary dismissal. Th e notice was filed after the defendant moved for sanctions against the plaintiff for filing what he alleged was a fraudulent assignment of mortgage. Because the notice of voluntary dismissal was filed pr... More...   $0 (02-02-2011 - FL)

The defendant in a mortgage foreclosure action filed by BNY Mellon appeals a trial court’s denial of his motion under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540(b) to vacate a voluntary dismissal. Th e notice was filed after the defendant moved for sanctions against the plaintiff for filing what he alleged was a fraudulent assignment of mortgage. Because the notice of voluntary dismissal was filed pr... More...   $0 (02-02-2011 - FL)

Shay McConnell appeals the trial court’s order granting specific performance of an extrajudicial visitation agreement in which he agreed to allow his parents, Janet and Stanley McConnell, to have access to his son, D.J.M. In eight issues, Shay contends that the trial court erred by granting specific performance of the 2007 visitation agreement, by denying his request for sanctions, by granting ... More...   $0 (01-27-2011 - TX)

Robert T. Miller filed suit against American Airlines, Inc., the American Airlines, Inc. Pilot Retirement Benefit Program Fixed Income Plan, and the American Airlines, Inc. Pension Benefits Administration Committee (collectively, “American”), alleging a violation of § 502(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B). Miller asserted that ... More...   $0 (01-25-2011 - PA)

In February 2003, the law firm of Wilson & Wilson (Wilson) brought an action against the City Council of Redwood City (City Council), the City of Redwood City (Redwood City), and the Redwood City Redevelopment Agency (Redevelopment Agency) (hereafter collectively the City) to challenge the approval and construction of a retail-cinema redevelopment project in Redwood City‟s downtown. Wilson asked... More...   $0 (01-25-2011 - CA)

In this case, police officers executed a late-night, no-knock entry into a family’s home. Though the officers claim that exigent circumstances justified their conduct, we agree with the district court that the remarkably scanty rationale offered for the no-knock invasion makes an award of qualified immu- nity inappropriate. With respect to the denial of qualified immunity on plaintiffs’ other ... More...   $0 (01-14-2011 - WV)

Plaintiff Gina Holmes appeals from the judgment entered in favor of defendants Petrovich Development Company, LLC and Paul Petrovich in her lawsuit for sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, violation of the right to privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.1 She contends that the trial court erred in granting defendants‟ motion for summary adjudication with respe... More...   $0 (01-13-2011 - CA)

This is an accelerated interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(4) (Vernon 2008). In three issues, Appellants Keith Fischer, Helen Lorraine Fischer, and KHBD, Inc. d/b/a Precision Builders and d/b/a Precision Concrete argue that the trial court’s temporary injunction is void because it failed to include a date for the trial on the meri... More...   $0 (01-13-2011 - TX)

Appellee McLane Company, Inc., sued two former employees--appellants Chris Hill and Donald McKinney--asserting, among other causes of action, misappropriation of trade secrets and obtained a temporary injunction restraining their conduct pending trial. Hill and McKinney appeal. (1) In three issues, appellants contend that the district court abused its discretion in granting the temporary injunctio... More...   $0 (01-05-2011 - TX)

Code of Civil Procedure section 1281.41 requires that a court impose a stay of litigation whenever that court, or another court, has ordered arbitration of a controversy that is an issue in the litigation. The court in which the litigation is pending is required to "stay the action or proceeding until an arbitration is had in accordance with the order to arbitrate or until such earlier time as the... More...   $0 (01-04-2011 - CA)

Savvas Charalambous filed a petition for the return of his two children, A.C. and N.C., to Cyprus pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670, which was implemented by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA), 42 U.S.C. § 11601 et seq. The children were removed in June 2010 from Cyprus, their country of ha... More...   $0 (12-08-2010 - ME)

Appellant 8100 North Freeway Ltd. appeals the trial court’s order granting the temporary injunction request of appellee the City of Houston. Because we find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in issuing the temporary injunction, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

The City regulates sexually oriented businesses (SOBs) and requires them to meet certain criteria to obtain permits, ... More...   $0 (12-02-2010 - TX)

Edith Carolyn Fryar and the Robert B. Fryar Residuary Trust (“the Fryar Trust”) (collectively known as “the Fryar family”) appeal the district court’s entry of judgment in favor of appellees after a three–day bench trial. The Fryar family sold Sav–Amil, LLC (“Sav–Amil”)—a company owned by Alan Nunnelee and Steve Hammack—roughly 3,600 acres of land in Mississippi and Tenness... More...   $0 (11-12-2010 - MS)

Following union certification, thirteen months of bargaining, and a strike, Plaintiff-Appellee the National Labor Relations Board (“the NLRB” or “the Board”) filed charges of unfair practices against Defendant-Appellant El Paso Disposal (“EPD”). The NLRB also filed a petition in the district court for temporary injunctive relief, seeking to force EPD to (1) cease and desist from allege... More...   $0 (11-05-2010 - TX)

An intoxicated driver struck Michael Dodd, who had been lying injured on Route M in Lawrence County, Missouri, after his own apparent alcohol-related accident. Dodd brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Missouri State Highway Patrolman Steven Jones and Lawrence County Deputy Sheriff Mike Thorn in their individual and official capacities. He alleged that Jones and Thorn, both of whom re... More...   $0 (10-18-2010 - MO)

This case poses the question whether a district court has jurisdiction to confirm an arbitration panel’s interim award denying class arbitration. The district court, following guidance provided by this court in a closely related earlier ruling in the same case, determined that the requisite ripeness is lacking and dismissed the motion to confirm for lack of jurisdiction. Because we agree that ap... More...   $0 (10-14-2010 - MI)

Douglas Brotherton appeals a superior court order extending his child support obligation for his 18-year-old son Nicholas through Nicholas’s graduation from high school pursuant to AS 25.24.170(a). Douglas argues that the superior court erred in interpreting both AS 25.24.170(a) and a stipulation setting out his child support obligation. He also argues that the superior court committed various p... More...   $0 (10-08-2010 - AK)

¶1 In this case, members of the Petersen Family (the “Petersens”) appeal the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of Riverton City, which upheld the Riverton City Council’s denial of the Petersens’ application to rezone a 20.84 acre parcel of land they own in Riverton City (the “Property”). The Petersens argue that the district court erred when it applied the reasonab... More...   $0 (10-08-2010 - UT)

This interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction concerns whether Kirk Kennedy, a former in-house counsel and corporate secretary for Gulf Coast Cancer & Diagnostic Center at Southeast, Inc. (Gulf Coast), is entitled to retain, for his own use, a copy of a legal opinion memorandum concerning Gulf Coast’s potential liability for its former executive’s alleged misconduct. Kennedy solicited... More...   $0 (09-23-2010 - TX)