Oklahoma City, OK - Lawton Man Sentenced to More Than 32 Years for Violent Crimes

On January 5, 2018, JACKIE DUNCAN, 30, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 386 months in federal prison for his role in a robbery conspiracy, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

A superseding indictment alleged that Duncan agreed with other member... More...   $0 (01-10-2018 - OK)

¶1 Smartcomm License Services, L.L.C. (Smartcomm) appeals
the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees David
Alcorn Professional Corporation; David and Elizabeth Alcorn, Janus
Spectrum, L.L.C. (collectively, the Alcorn Defendants); and Jon Palmieri.
Smartcomm also appeals the trial court’s denial of an application for an
order to show cause. For the followi... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - AZ)

In this common-law trademark case, Thomas McClary appeals from an order granting judgment as a matter of law to Commodores Entertainment Corporation (CEC) and converting a preliminary injunction into a permanent one against McClary and his corporation, Fifth Avenue Entertainment, LLC. The dispute concerned ownership of the mark “The Commodores,” the name of a famous Grammy Award–winning rhythm and... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - FL)

Wilder owns and operates a pierogi food truck. Food truck operators must
operate out of a commissary or licensed board of health kitchen, and Wilder’s
commissary is on the south side of Indianapolis next to a bar and restaurant
called The Tailgate, which is owned by Dennis Turpen (“Turpen”).
[4] At approximately 12:30 p.m. on August 6, 2016, Wilder went to his
commissary... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - IN)

William “Mack” Vaughan presented at the emergency department of Defendant
11 St. Vincent Hospital, Inc. (the Hospital) in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August 2002
12 with complaints of abdominal pain. He was seen in the emergency department by Dr.
13 Martin Wilt, who was a subcontractor/partner of Northern New Mexico Emergency
14 Medical Services, and who ordered a CT scan. The scan was... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - NM)

Following the altercation with Defendant, Barela received treatment for a
10 concussion at Presbyterian Medical Center and her doctor reported a domestic
11 incident to the police. While at the hospital, Deputy Metzgar of the Bernalillo County
12 Sheriff’s Department recorded his interview with Barela, who alleged that on
13 December 2, 2009, Defendant had physically abused her a... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - NM)

Investigative journalism has long been a fixture in the American press, particularly with regard to food safety.1 In the early 1900s, Upton Sinclair highlighted conditions in the meat-packing industry in The Jungle, a novel based on his time working incognito in a packing plant.2 This case also originates in the agricultural sector�a secretly-filmed expos� of the operation of an Idaho dairy fa... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - ID)

In late 1998, the City of Modesto (the City), the City of Modesto Sewer District
No. 1 (the Sewer District) and the Modesto Redevelopment Agency (the RDA) sued
various retail dry cleaning businesses (dry cleaners) operating in Modesto together with
the manufacturers of dry cleaning equipment used at those dry cleaners, and the
manufacturers and distributors of dry cleaning solvent.... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - CA)

The Petitioner’s convictions relate to an incident in which Darice Brown’s cell phone and handbag were taken from her and she was shot multiple times and left in a remote area. The incident was related to a drug transaction arranged by the victim, in which the Defendant and his codefendants thought they had received counterfeit cocaine from the drug dealer, who was a person known to the victim. ... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - TN)

The Petitioner’s convictions relate to an incident in which Darice Brown’s cell phone and handbag were taken from her and she was shot multiple times and left in a remote area. The incident was related to a drug transaction arranged by the victim, in which the Defendant and his codefendants thought they had received counterfeit cocaine from the drug dealer, who was a person known to the victim. ... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - )

On 10 April 2015, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant for an
apartment on Basin Street, in Charlotte, North Carolina. When the officers arrived
at the apartment, defendant was sitting in his car in front of the residence. Two
officers approached defendant in order to prevent any interference with the execution
of the search warrant, and remained near defendant ... More...   $0 (01-07-2018 - NC)

Elise and Ed Hilton, individually, and as next friends of their
developmentally-disabled daughter, EH (collectively, the “Hiltons”), appeal the district court’s
dismissal of their complaint. They argue that the district court erred in three respects. They
allege that Catherine Mish, City Attorney for Grand Rapids, was acting under color of state law
when she sent two emails from he... More...   $0 (01-05-2018 - MI)

Kathleen McBride (McBride) sued Byron and Kalmia Smith (the Smiths) for
violating McBride’s rights with respect to a recorded easement over the Smiths’ property.
After sustaining demurrers to several versions of McBride’s complaint, the last without
leave to amend, the trial court entered judgment in favor of the Smiths. On appeal, we
conclude that McBride stated causes of action f... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - CA)

Albuquerque, NM - Arizona Man Pleads Guilty to Intimidating Flight Crew and Flight Attendants Resulting in Emergency Landing in New Mexico

Robert Tomblin, 55, of Phoenix, Ariz., pled guilty on December 29, 2017 in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to interfering and intimidating flight crew members and flight attendants requiring an emergency landing in New Mexico.

Tomblin was ... More...   $0 (01-01-2018 - NM)

David Cox challenges a summary judgment in favor of Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company (“Provident”) on breach-of-contract and tortious-breach-of-contract claims stemming from two disability insurance policies that Provident issued to Cox. Under the policies, Cox is entitled to receive disability benefits for life if, and only if, his disability resulted from injury rather sick-ness. The ... More...   $0 (01-01-2018 - MS)

Appellant Carlos Morales asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss pursuant to chapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code. Morales also asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in granting appellee David Barnes’s motion to disregard Morales’s reply to Barnes’s response to motion to dismiss. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
BACKGROUND
Ba... More...   $0 (12-31-2017 - )

Natasha Peters appeals the district court's decision revoking her probation and ordering her to serve her underlying prison sentence. Peters contends the district court should've given her another chance at probation rather than send her to prison.

But Peters admitted to the district court that she committed nine new criminal offenses while on probation. These new offenses gave the dist... More...   $0 (12-29-2017 - KS)

Gill pled guilty to one count of possession of marijuana, a level 5 drug felony, and to single counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and interference with a police officer, both class A misdemeanors. On November 15, 2013, the district court imposed an underlying prison term of 20 months but granted Gill probation from that sentence for a period of 18 months.

In June 2015, Gill sub... More...   $0 (12-29-2017 - KS)

A Texas university declined to renew a lecturer’s contract. After several extensive but unsuccessful administrative appeals, that lecturer sued the school and its administrators, alleging a deprivation of his property interest in his job without due process and tortious interference with his employment con-tract. The district court denied summary judgment to the administrators on their immunity de... More...   $0 (12-25-2017 - )

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, the record
shows the following. On July 23, 2015, Franklin and a friend were sitting at a bar
in Dubuque. The friend was smoking a cigarette inside the bar, which is
prohibited. The owner of the bar, David Lorenz, walked up to the friend, took the
cigarette, and threw it out. A verbal argument between the owner,... More...   $0 (12-24-2017 - IA)

Plaintiff Ketryn Cornell is a severely obese woman who was fired from the
Berkeley Tennis Club after having worked there for over 15 years. She brought eight
claims against the Club: three under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act
(FEHA; Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.), for disability discrimination and failure to
accommodate her disability (the discrimination/failure to acc... More...   $0 (12-22-2017 - CA)

Wells’ convictions arise out of the deaths of Richard W. Belisle and James A. Hopkins, federal employees and Wells’ co-workers at the United States Coast Guard (“USCG”) antenna maintenance facility, located at the USCG Communication Station (“COMMSTA”) on Kodiak Island, Alaska. COMMSTA consists of two main buildings: a large operations center, known as T1; and the antenna maintenance facility, or ... More...   $0 (12-21-2017 - AK)

Cormier met James Nicholas in February 2014. The two began a romantic
relationship. Cormier described Nicholas as kind and attentive at first, but as time
went on, he became controlling and abusive.
Both Cormier and Nicholas had criminal histories. Nicholas was on parole,
having recently been released from prison after being incarcerated for felony
delivery of cocaine a... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - TX)

Defendant-Appellant James Michael Wells (“Wells”) appeals from his jury trial convictions for two counts of First Degree Murder, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1111(a), (b); two counts of Murder of a Federal Employee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1111; and two counts of Use of a Firearm in Relation to a Crime of Violence Resulting in Death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c), (j). Wells was se... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - AK)

This appeal arises from a dispute between divorcing parents over the managing conservatorship of their children. The trial court awarded sole managing conservatorship to the father and possessory conservatorship to the mother. On appeal, the mother contends the trial court erred in denying her motion for new trial challenging that ruling.
We hold that the trial court erred in denying the mothe... More...   $0 (12-19-2017 - TX)