Don Karns and Robert Parker filed civil rights actions against the New Jersey Transit Corporation (“NJ Transit”) and NJ Transit Officers Kathleen Shanahan and Sandra McKeon Crowe in their official and individual capacities, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Officers Shanahan and Crowe arrested Karns and Parker for defiant trespass and obstruction of justice after... More...   $0 (01-14-2018 - NJ)

In November 2014, Tennessee voters approved an
amendment to the Tennessee Constitution making clear that the Constitution is not to be
construed as securing or protecting a right to abortion or requiring funding of an abortion.
Understandably, the amendment was a matter of no small controversy. In fact, more votes were
cast in favor of and opposition to the amendment than were cast... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - TN)

Chicago, IL - Richard J. Kirnbauer sued National Railroad Passenger Corporation, d/b/a Amtrak; Northeast Regional Commuter Railroad, d/b/a Metra on negligence theories.... More...   $0 (01-03-2018 - IL)

This appeal involves the interplay of two federal statutes: the OSH Act and the Mine Act, both administered under the authority of the Secretary of Labor. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to enforce the OSH Act, which is designed to ensure the safe working conditions for every worker in the nation. 29 U.S.C. § 651(b). When Congress enacted the OSH Act, however, certain federal agencies alre... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - NY)

This case concerns multiple challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act to Maryland’s proposed “Purple Line” light rail project. Two orders of the district court are principally at issue. In the first order, the district court directed the Federal Transit Administration (“FTA”) to prepare a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (“SEIS”) to analyze the effects of Metrorail’s rec... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - DC)

Plaintiffs are students of cosmetology and hair design at
schools in California and Nevada operated by defendant B&H
Education, Inc., under the name of Marinello Schools of
Beauty. Plaintiffs claim that they are employees within the
meaning of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), and
under California and Nevada state law, on the ground that
much of their time is spent in ... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - CA)

Jacqueline Lewis, an African-American police detective in Union City,
Georgia, was terminated abruptly from her position after about ten years of service.
The ostensible reason was that Ms. Lewis was absent without leave—this
notwithstanding that the Union City Police Department (“UCPD”) only days
earlier had placed her on indefinite administrative leave pending resolution of theMore...   $0 (12-15-2017 - GA)

Plaintiff Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) sued defendant HART HighVoltage
Apparatus Repair and Testing Co., Inc. (HART) for negligently servicing a large
transformer at a hydroelectric power plant and for damages under Public Utilities Code1
section 7952. PG&E alleged it incurred dirct and indirect costs of approximately $8.1
million.
HART filed a motion for summary adj... More...   $0 (12-14-2017 - CA)

On December 17, 2013, the petitioner, who was twenty-one at the time of the offense, pled guilty to rape of a child for which he received a sentence of twenty-five
years in confinement to be served at 100%. The facts underlying the plea, as explained by the State, were as follows:
Had this matter gone to trial, the State’s proof would have been that on July 23[], 2012, Memphis Police Dep... More...   $0 (12-08-2017 - TN)

A wildfire started in Plumas County on September 3, 2007, and burned
approximately 65,000 acres over the course of multiple weeks. This fire, dubbed the
“Moonlight Fire,” was at the center of several actions filed by plaintiffs Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), Grange Insurance Association, and multiple
landowners
1 in 2009 and 2010 against defendants Eunic... More...   $0 (12-07-2017 - CA)

When describing an insurer's subrogation claim, we say that the subrogated insurer "steps into the shoes of the plaintiff."1 Here, the original plaintiff, Tori Ukpaka, brought a timely lawsuit against the Defendant/Appellee, Nicholas Payne, for injuries arising out of an automobile accident that happened in 2012. Ukpaka then voluntarily dismissed that lawsuit in 2015--after the statute of limitat... More...   $0 (12-06-2017 - OK)

On February 17, 2016, Tarrant County Sheriff’s deputies prepared to
return Ramires from John Peter Smith Hospital back to jail. Informed that he
would be discharged from the hospital, deputies unchained him from the hospital
bed on which he lay, ordered him to change into his jail uniform, and searched
him after he had finished changing.
Because Ramires had previously los... More...   $0 (12-04-2017 - TX)

At the time of his death in June 2012, Emerson Franklin was a seventy-six
year old deacon and treasurer for his local church. He was also a carpenter by trade,
and had been working for several years for Charlie Jones, also a member of
Franklin’s church. A few months prior to Franklin’s murder, Jones discussed with
Franklin that they needed extra help on a particular house they ... More...   $0 (11-26-2017 - TX)

Defendants and appellants Applied Underwriters, Inc.
(Applied Underwriters), California Insurance Company (CIC),
Continental Indemnity Company (CNI), Applied Risk Services,
Inc., Joan Sheppard, Westin Fredrick Penfield, and Michael Scott
Wichman (collectively, defendants) appeal from an order denying
their petition to compel arbitration of a dispute with plaintiffs
and resp... More...   $0 (11-26-2017 - CA)

In September 1889, the Georgia legislature granted the Eatonton & Machen Railroad Company a charter to “construct, lay out, maintain, equip and operate a line of railroad from the town of Eatonton, in Putnam county, to the town of Machen, in Jasper county, in this State . . . .” Pls.’ Mot. Summ. J. App. C, at C-4. The railroad’s charter incorporated Section 1689(l) of the Georgia Code, stating: <... More...   $0 (11-21-2017 - )

Lucy Munoz testified that on February 15, 2013, she and her threeyear-old son were living with her parents and younger brother at their home in Jackson. Lucy recalled that she had gone home in the early afternoon for her lunch break that day. When she pulled into the driveway, Lucy noticed that no one appeared to be home but that the garage door “was probably one-fourth open.” Lucy opened the g... More...   $0 (11-18-2017 - TN)

Peter Belmont, a resident of Wyandotte County, habitually picked up young African-American men in Kansas City, Missouri. Belmont had befriended several men this way. They would do odd jobs and yard work at his home. They would help him with his dogs. Three men became long-term friends: Michael Griffin, Raymond Miller, and Quincy Coleman. Some men Belmont would pick up and take back to his home, an... More...   $0 (11-10-2017 - KS)

These matters are before the court on the respondent's Petition for Panel
Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc. We also have responses from the petitioner and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, in addition to amici curiae briefs from the
United States and The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. We also have several motions pending
seeking to file additional amici curiae briefs.
2More...   $0 (11-10-2017 - OK)

¶1 The oil and gas industry is a major economic force in the Uintah Basin. This industry relies, to some extent, on access to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation of the Ute Indian Tribe. The plaintiffs allege that, through its ability to restrict the industry’s access to tribal lands, the tribe has held hostage the economy of the non-Indian population.
¶2 Ryan Harvey, a plaintiff and part owner o... More...   $0 (11-07-2017 - UT)

Appellant was inqicted for committing fourteen crimes: eight counts of
first-degree robbery, one count of first-degree burglary, and five counts of
second-degree burglary. These crimes were alleged to have occurred at eight
different locations in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, over a seven-month period,
including twice at one residence. A jury found Appellant guilty of one count
... More...   $0 (11-07-2017 - KY)

Chicago, IL - Convicted Felon Sentenced to Eleven Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Firearms from Cargo Train

A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon to eleven years in prison for stealing more than a hundred firearms from a cargo train on the South Side of Chicago and selling more than a dozen of them.

On April 12, 2015, PATRICK EDWARDS and several acquaintances bur... More...   $0 (11-04-2017 - IL)

Plaintiff-Appellant Ina M. Collins, who worked as a
beauty consultant in New Jersey for Defendant-Appellee Mary
Kay, Inc. brought this putative class action in the United States
District Court for the District of New Jersey, claiming that
certain Mary Kay policies and practices violated the New
Jersey Wage Payment Law (“NJWPL”). Mary Kay moved to
dismiss the suit on forum n... More...   $0 (11-03-2017 - NJ)

San Jose, CA - Jury Convicts Defendant Who Claimed He Was Too Drunk To Have Intentionally Killed Woman

The People of the State of California charged Michael Hill, age 54, with first-degree murder for killing Bertha Paulsen, who was beaten to death.

Defendant's lawyer claimed that Hill was extremely drunk and could not have formed the mental intent needed to have developed malice... More...   $0 (11-02-2017 - CA)

The petition in this case challenges a trial court order summarily adjudicating a
cause of action under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act (the
Act), a cause of action for fraud by concealment, and another for medical battery, while
allowing other claims, including one for medical negligence, to proceed to trial. Stewart
is the representative of Anthony Carter... More...   $0 (10-16-2017 - CA)

Minneapolis, MN - Former Employee of Transcontinental Railroad Company Found Guilty of Damaging Ex-Employer’s Computer Network

A former employee of Canadian Pacific Railway convicted of causing intentional damage to Canadian Pacific’s computer network.

Christopher Victor Grupe, 46, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was charged on April 11, with one count of intentional damage to a prote... More...   $0 (10-11-2017 - MN)