Toxic Tort Law
 
Cheryl Russo v. Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs and the Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission

Claremore, OK - Cheryl Russo sued the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs and the Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission on wrongful termination theories claiming:

1. Plaintiff is a resident of Rogers County, Oklahoma.

2. Defendant Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs ("ODVA") is an Oklahoma State governmental entity and/or political subdivision with divisions located in Rog

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Charles S. Reese v. The City of Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, OK - Charles S. Reese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marinan Reese, sued The City of Oklahoma City on a governmental tort claim (51 O.S. 151, et seq.) theory claiming:


1. Plaintiff, Charles S. Reese, is the duly appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Marinan Reese, who was a citizen and resident of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, at the time of the ev

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Swarna Allam et al. v. Deepak Verma et al.

This appeal arises from the purchase of a wholesale
gasoline company. Plaintiffs Swarna Allam and Avighna Global
Traders, LLC (AGT) purchased one hundred percent of the shares
of Pioneer Enterprises, Inc., which were held by defendant
Deepak Verma.1 Plaintiffs asserted various tort and contract
claims against Verma, who responded with various counterclaims.
The mat

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Charley Collins v. COP Wyoming, LLC

Charley and his son, Brett, were both employed by Appellee COP Wyoming, LLC. Appellee Roger Ross was also employed by COP Wyoming, as the job superintendent and supervisor in charge of safety at the same job site. On August 20, 2012, Mr. Ross was operating a large track hoe excavator to excavate insidea trench box at the job site. Mr. Ross instructed Brett to enter the trench box and work there w

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United States of America v. Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $2.6 billion penalty to resolve claims related to Morgan Stanley’s marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). This settlement constitutes the largest component of the set of resolutions with Morgan Stanley entered by members of the RMBS Working Group, which have totaled approximately $5 billion. As part of the agreement, Morgan S

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Tiffany Thomas v. T. Jayakumar, First Street Hospital, and First Surgical Partners, LLC

In 2001, Thomas underwent lap band surgery which was performed by
non-parties to this suit. During that surgery, silastic tubing was left in her
abdomen.1
On November 14, 2011, Thomas was admitted to First Street Hospital for
gastric bypass surgery. Dr. Jayakumar performed the surgery and Thomas was
released from the hospital the next day.
Following her surgery, Tho

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Brock A. Werdel, et al. v. State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Department of Public Safety

¶1 Plaintiffs/Appellants Brock A. Werdel, Clark R. Chambers, Joseph E. Howard, Titus L. West, Jeffrey T. Graves, Joseph P. Wagner, Anthony J. Spigener, Michael A. Carroll, and Brent E. Shouse, for themselves and all others similarly situated (Plaintiffs), seek review of the trial court's order denying their motion for class certification, denying their motion for summary judgment and granting the

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Charley Collins v. COP Wyoming, LLC a Wyoming Limited Liability Company and Roger Ross

Charley and his son, Brett, were both employed by Appellee COP Wyoming, LLC. Appellee Roger Ross was also employed by COP Wyoming, as the job superintendent and supervisor in charge of safety at the same job site. On August 20, 2012, Mr. Ross was operating a large track hoe excavator to excavate insidea trench box at the job site. Mr. Ross instructed Brett to enter the trench box and work there wh

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ALFORD et al v. USA

The plaintiffs in Alford, et al. (“plaintiffs”) are all Mississippi residents, who own real and personal property in the Eagle Lake Community, which is located in Warrant County, Mississippi, in the Lower Mississippi River Valley. Sec. Am. Compl. ¶¶ 10 – 48, ECF No. 35 (“Compl.”). This valley “is a relatively flat plain of about 35,000 square miles bordering the river, which would be inundated d

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Matthew Jonas and Sue Hubbard v. Patrick Beck and Esurance Property and Casualty Insurance Company

Tulsa, OK - Matthew Jonas and Sue Hubbard sued Patrick Beck and Esurance Property and Casualty Insurance Company on auto negligence and under insured motorist theories claiming:

1. Plaintiff Matthew Jonas is a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
2. Plaintiff Sue Hubbard is a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
3. Based on information and belief, Defendant Patrick Beck is a residen

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Eugene Brinson v. United States of America

Appellant Eugene Kenneth Brinson appeals from the District Court’s award of
damages in the amount of $350.00 for the Appellee’s negligence in serving chicken
tainted with salmonella to Appellant while he was an inmate at USP-Canaan on June 25,
2011. For the reasons stated below, we will summarily affirm. Because the parties are
familiar with the facts and procedural history o

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Basic Energy Services, L.P. v. Petroleum Resource Management, Corp., and PRM Partners I, LLC

PRM Partners is a leaseholder of lands which cover an oil well identified as Fuller Federal No. 5-18 (No. 5-18)near Shoshoni, Wyoming. PRM Partners designated PRM1 as operator of No. 5-18 on January 1, 2000. PRM later contracted with Hot Oil to “furnish all necessary labor and equipment to perform in a good and workmanlike manner the pumping services . . . on [No. 5-18.]”2 The Well Pumping Cont

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Kelli Peters v. Kent Easter and Jill Easter a/k/a Ava Everheart

Santa Ana, CA - Former PTA President Gets $5.7 Million Verdict In Drug Planting Case

Kelli Peters sued Kent Easter and Jill Easter a/k/a Eva Everheart on personal tort theories claiming that they acted with malice, oppression and fraud when they planted bags of marijuana, Vicodin and Percocet in Kelli's car in February 2011. The Plaintiff claimed that the Defendants were motivated over a

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Sara L. Burnett v. State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation.

In this case, we address whether the government waived its immunity for
injuries petitioner Sara Burnett sustained when a tree limb fell on her as she camped
below in a designated campsite in Cherry Creek State Park. The answer turns on
whether the tree was a “natural condition of . . . unimproved property” under section
24-10-106(1)(e), C.R.S. (2014), of the Colorado Governme

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Commodity Futures Trading Comm v. Wilson

In this commodity trading fraud case brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"
or "Commission") against John B. Wilson and JBW Capital LLC ("JBW"), the Massachusetts federal district court granted on summary judgment the CFTC's request for a finding of liability,
and imposed injunctive relief and civil penalties. It declined to
award restitution, as measured by l

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Church of God in Christ, Inc., et al v. L.M. Haley Ministries, Inc., et al.

On February 2, 2012, Plaintiffs/Appellants Bishop David A. Hall, individually and on behalf of Gospel Center Temple Church of God in Christ (“Gospel Center COGIC”), filed a complaint for injunction, accounting, and damages against L.M. Haley Ministries, Inc., Gospel Center Temple Church Moscow, Inc. (“Gospel Center, Inc.”), and some of its members and trustees, Lonnie M. Haley, III, Jeremiah R. Ha

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Latanya T-Butler v. State of Indiana

During the early months of 2013, Laverne Perkins (“Laverne”) had custody of
J.P., the two-year-old son of her brother, Gerald Perkins (“Gerald”), while
Gerald was in prison. In February and March of 2013, J.P. was living with
Laverne and her elderly father, who was in hospice in the home. During that
period of time, Laverne became ill with the flu. On Sunday, February 24, 20

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RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS v. GULF ENERGY EXPLORATION CORPORATION

This case arises out of the Commission’s duties with respect to abandoned oil-and-gas
wells, which are governed by Texas Natural Resources Code chapter 89. One of the statute’s
express purposes is to protect Texas’s water and land from pollution by providing “additional
means” for the plugging of abandoned wells. TEX. NAT. RES. CODE § 89.001. The statute and
accompanying Com

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Rosalie Simon v. Republic of Hungary

This case arises out of one of humanity’s darkest hours. In the summer of 1944, upon the arrival of German troops in Nazi-allied Hungary, the Hungarian government implemented an accelerated campaign to deport Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps for extermination before the War’s end. At the outset of the War, the Jewish population in Hungary numbered more than 800,000. By the end of the War, mo

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Linda Evans v. Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority

Tulsa, OK - Linda Evans sued the Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority on a governmental tort claim theory under 51 O.S. 151, et seq., auto negligence theory claiming:


1. Plaintiff is a citizen of Oklahoma residing in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
2. Defendant MTTA is a public trust of the City of Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
3. The acts and omissions that gave rise to this c

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STATE OF LOUISIANA v. LYNN E. FORET, M.D.

On April 18, 2013, defendant, Lynn Foret, a medical doctor who specialized in
orthopedic surgery, pled guilty in federal court to one count of health care fraud,3 for
criminal acts that occurred between 2003 and 2009. The bill of information states the
On April 18, 2013, defendant, Lynn Foret, a medical doctor who specialized in
orthopedic surgery, pled guilty in federal court to

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BOSSE v. STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Shaun Michael Bosse was tried by jury and convicted of Counts I, II and III, First Degree Murder in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2009, § 701.7(A); and Count IV, First Degree Arson in violation of 21 O.S.2001, § 1401(A), in the District Court of McClain County, Case No. CR-2010-213. For each of Counts I-III, the jury found that Bosse knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person, that

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Mocek v. City of Albuquerque

Mocek has a practice of refusing to show his photo identification at airport
security checkpoints. Prior to 2008, he was able to clear checkpoints by
complying with alternative TSA identification procedures. In 2008, the TSA
established a policy that those who “simply refuse[d] to provide any identification
or assist transportation security officers in ascertaining their identity

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State Of Nebraska v. Irish

At approximately 12:55 a.m. on February 9, 2014, Bryant L. Irish and his passenger were involved in a one-vehicle rollover accident. Irish’s passenger suffered head injuries after being ejected from the vehicle, a pickup truck. The State charged Irish with driving under the influence of alcoholic liquor causing serious bodily injury in violation of § 60-6,198(1). At the start of a bench trial, the

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STATE OF IOWA vs. KENT ANTHONY TYLER III

We recite the facts in the light most favorable to the State. State v. Neiderbach, 837 N.W.2d 180, 187 (Iowa 2013). On the night of August 24–25, 2013, a crowd of twenty to forty teenagers was gathered at an empty lot next to the Des Moines River in downtown Des Moines. They were drinking, dancing, and listening to music. About ten to fifteen cars were present. Some in the crowd were dancing

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