Tribeca is a California limited liability company formed in October 2005 by William Faidi, its sole shareholder. It is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm that makes investments in “distressed” real estate by purchasing and foreclosing on defaulted mortgage loans. Sky Pacific Holdings I, LLC (Sky Pacific) is another California limited liability company also formed by Faidi, who ... More...   $0 (08-27-2015 - CA)

Where a large musical-instrument retailer pressures
individual guitar manufacturers to set the lowest prices at
which the manufacturers will permit any retailer to advertise
the manufacturers’ products—and each manufacturer
acquiesces—can we infer the manufacturers conspired among
themselves to fix prices?
Plaintiffs ask us to answer this question in the affirmative.
Th... More...   $0 (08-25-2015 - CA)

Former IRS agent Jorge Aviles asserts that he was fired in retaliation for protected whistleblowing. Aviles alleges that he uncovered that ExxonMobil Corporation (“Exxon”) had perpetrated a $500 million tax fraud and that IRS officials covered it up. Aviles claims he disclosed this information to his supervisors and that he was ultimately fired in retaliation for this protected disclosure in viola... More...   $0 (08-24-2015 - LA)

Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, local exchange carriers such as Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream) must connect calls made to their customers by the customers of national telecommunications companies such as Sprint. Prior to 2009, Sprint paid Windstream state access charges for connecting nonnomadic intrastate long-distance VoIP calls—that is, calls made by cabletelephone... More...   $0 (08-15-2015 - IA)

Our court previously remanded this case to the district court after reversing one of Matthew Simpson’s convictions.1 Simpson was resentenced and now appeals that sentence on several grounds, asserting, among other claims, that 18 U.S.C. § 3581(b)(3) imposes a statutory maximum sentence of twelve years for a Class C felony and that the district court accordingly erred in imposing 240 months of impr... More...   $0 (08-12-2015 - TX)

Newark, NJ - U.S. Attorney’s Office Settles Americans With Disabilities Act Case With Linden, New Jersey-Based Electronics Store

The U.S. Attorney’s Office today reached an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement with a Linden-based electronics store to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities at its retail store, on the internet, and through telephone orders, U.S. ... More...   $0 (08-06-2015 - NJ)

This case requires us to consider whether a person who listens to
and subsequently electronically records a conversation from an inadvertent “pocket-dial” call1
violates Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Street Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. § 2510 et
seq. (Title III). James Huff inadvertently placed a pocket-dial call to Carol Spaw while he was
on a business trip in Italy. S... More...   $0 (07-21-2015 - KY)

James Huff was Chairman of the Kenton County, Kentucky, Airport Board (Airport Board), which oversees the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). In October 2013, he traveled to Bologna, Italy with his wife, Bertha Huff, and with Airport Board Vice Chairman Larry Savage to attend a business conference. Carol Spaw worked at CVG as Senior Executive Assistant to the airport’s CEO,... More...   $0 (07-21-2015 - KY)

On November 3, 2009, Appellant was elected the seventy-first Governor of Virginia. From the outset, he made economic development and the promotion of Virginia businesses priorities of his administration. The economic downturn preceding the election had taken a personal toll on Appellant. Mobo Real Estate Partners LLC (“Mobo”), a business operated by Appellant and his sister, was losing money on ... More...   $0 (07-18-2015 - )

Rogue Valley Sewer Services (RVS) owns, operates, and manages equipment for the transmission of sewage. As a “sanitary authority” organized under ORS chapter 450, RVS is a type of local government entity called a local service district. See ORS 174.116(2)(r) (“[A]s used in the statutes of this state[,] ‘local service district’ [includes a] sanitary authority * * * organized under ORS 450.600 to 45... More...   $0 (07-16-2015 - )

Following 31 years of service as a teacher in the public schools, Carol
Tibbles retired in April 1994. She is a member of the Teachers Retirement
System of Georgia, and as such, she is entitled by law to annual retirement
allowance in an amount
equal to 2 percent of [her] average compensation over the two consecutive years of membership service producing the highest such average, m... More...   $0 (07-13-2015 - )

Over the course of five weeks of trial, federal prosecutors sought to prove that former Governor of Virginia Robert F. McDonnell (“Appellant”) and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, accepted money and lavish gifts in exchange for efforts to assist a Virginia company in securing state university testing of a dietary supplement the company had developed. The jury found Appellant guilty of eleven counts of... More...   $0 (07-11-2015 - VA)

Defendant Jason Stephen Sigur appeals from a judgment of conviction following a jury trial. After meeting in an Internet chat room, defendant engaged in a sexual relationship with a thirteen-year-old girl for approximately two months, including in the home where the victim lived with her mother and grandmother after secretly entering through the victim’s bedroom window for that purpose. He was c... More...   $0 (07-10-2015 - )

Dallas, TX - Aracell King, age 44, sued Time Warner Cable on a violation for violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 more than 73 times after she advise the Defendant not to call her any more. In total she received more thatn 153 robo calls to her Spring telephone line.

Recent Court Docket Entries:

Date Filed # Docket Text

06/04/2015 18 SCHEDULING OR... More...   $230000 (07-08-2015 - NY)

This is an appeal out of Ada County from a declaratory judgment holding that TracFone
is a telecommunication provider under Idaho Code section 31-4802(15)(d). We affirm that
judgment.

I.
Factual Background.
TracFone Wireless, Inc., is a non-facilities-based commercial mobile radio service
provider (a pure wireless reseller) that provides prepaid wireless telecommunicat... More...   $0 (06-23-2015 - ID)

BOISE, ID - Helen Herold-Roden, 49, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and theft of labor union assets. Herold-Roden pleaded guilty pre-indictment to a one-count criminal information filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to the plea agreement, from 2002, until July 2014, Herold-Roden was the secretary-treasurer of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local Union ... More...   $0 (06-18-2015 - ID)

Phoenix, AZ - Paul Clabough, age 62, and Pamela Clabough sued the Arizona Department of Highways on a governmental tort claim theory claiming that they were injured and damaged when a room where Paul worked in an electronics room was flooded with sulfuric acid gas when batteries in the room overheated.

Paul, who worked for a contractor, was sent to the Arizona Highway Department facility ... More...   $4300000 (05-30-2015 - AZ)

Tulsa, OK - Southwestern Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Oklahoma sued the City of Tulsa on a negligence theory claiming:

1. The Plaintiff is a Missouri corporation licensed to do business in the State of Oklahoma.
2. ‘l’hc Defendant is a municipality entitled to all the protections afforded by the Governmental Tort Claims Act, (“OTCA�).
3. In all instances set forth her... More...   $8000 (04-17-2015 - OK)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Sprint Communications, Inc., formerly Sprint Nextel Corporation, has agreed to pay the government $15.5 million to resolve allegations it defrauded federal law enforcement agencies when recovering its costs of carrying out court-ordered wiretaps, pen registers, and trap devices, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspect... More...   $0 (04-11-2015 - CA)

DALLAS, TX — Milos Vujanic, 34, who was convicted for his role in what U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater previously called “a massive, complicated, multi-year scheme to defraud a large number of victims,â€� was sentenced this week to 48 months in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $17.3 million in restitution. Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker, of the Northern District of Tex... More...   $0 (04-01-2015 - TX)

Petitioners, Steve Fick, James Wells, and Fishhawk
Fisheries, Inc., seek judicial review of certain rules adopted
by respondent Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
(ODFW).1 In particular, pursuant ORS 183.400(1),2 petitioners
challenge a series of administrative rules entitled
“Columbia River Recreational and Commercial Fisheries
Management Strategies,â€� numbered OAR ... More...   $0 (03-18-2015 - OR)

Plaintiffs-appellants represent a class of retirees (collectively “Plaintiffs�)
formerly employed by Sprint-Nextel Corporation (“Sprint�), Embarq Corporation
(“Embarq�), or a predecessor and/or subsidiary company of either Embarq or
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Sprint (collectively “Defendants�). Plaintiffs brought this suit after Defendants
altered or eliminated health and life insur... More...   $0 (02-25-2015 - )

At 2:57 a.m. on April 12, 2014, Kibbie Walker and Cortez Blakemore left Target Field, the home of the Minnesota Twins, in downtown Minneapolis after finishing their shift. Outside the stadium, they were met by three men, all wearing sweatshirts with the hoods pulled up tight around their faces.

One of the three men nodded to another man, who pulled out a revolver and shot Walker and Blake... More...   $0 (02-23-2015 - MN)

CHICAGO, IL - Two defendants were sentenced to federal prison terms for an investment fraud scheme in which they swindled more than $30 million from more than 100 investors in a purported voice-over-internet telecommunications business. One defendant, GAIL HOWARD, was sentenced to seven years in prison, while her co-defendant, JAMES JEDYNAK, was sentenced to 6½ years in prison. Together, Howard... More...   $0 (01-23-2015 - IL)

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provides, in relevant part, that “[a]ny decision by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof to deny a request to place,construct, or modify personal wireless service facilities shall be in writing and supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record.â€� 110 Stat. 151, 47 U. S. C. §332(c)(7)(B)(iii). The question presented is wheth... More...   $0 (01-14-2015 - DC)