Dionte Tyler brought this action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Kentucky’s usury laws, alleging that the debtcollection action instituted by DH Capital Management (DHC) sought to collect an

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amount to which DHC was not legally entitled. The district court dismissed the suit, be

While serving as the Chief of Police in Drew, Mississippi, Anthony Gibson reported Mayor Jeffrey Kilpatrick to outside law enforcement agencies for misuse of the city gasoline card. Months later, Kilpatrick began issuing written reprimands to Gibson for a panoply of alleged deficiencies. Gibson subsequently filed a lawsuit alleging unconstitutional retaliation as well as state tort law claims. Kil

Vicki Carter sued Jean Griffin, successor trustee of the Wilmer Radzinski 2010 Trust, Robert Iliff, Misty Rowland, and Sixth Church of Christ Scientist seeking declaratory judgment and a temporary restraining order, claiming conversion, intrusion, trespass, civil conspiracy and intentional infliction of emotional distress claiming:

1. Jurisdiction is proper in the District Court of Tulsa

Philip Morris USA, Inc., and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (collectively the "Tobacco Companies") challenge a final judgment entered after jury trial in favor of Theodore Hallgren, as personal representative of the estate of Claire Hallgren. The final judgment upheld the jury's award of approximately $1 million in compensatory damages, after factoring in Mrs. Hallgren's comparative fault, and $1.5

Jason Creel sued The Woodlands Township for property damage. He alleged that the defendant failed to remove dead trees from behind his house, and “water entered the home through the roof[.]� Creel alleged that the defendant “is a special-purpose district, a unit of government of the State of Texas,� and he acknowledged that the Texas Tort Claims Act provides a limited waiver of immunity fo

Joseph Hevey, in his capacity as co-trustee of the Will Slip 2011 Trust, appeals the trial court’s order dismissing Trust claims related to a marriage that occurred thirty-six years ago between Dale C. Bullough and appellee Margaret Hundley. Because we conclude a 2004 final decree of divorce bars the Trust’s claims, we affirm.

The summary judgment evidence shows the following. In 1977,

¶1 Appellants brought suit to enjoin the enforcement of a law, claiming that the law violated the state constitution in four respects. The district court dismissed the first two claims and rejected the second two claims on summary judgment. On appeal, we consider whether Appellants had standing to bring these claims in the first place. We hold that, although they lacked the personal injury requir

¶1 This case requires us to determine whether an attorneyclient relationship that existed between the United Effort Plan Trust

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1 On June 13, 2011, we stayed the present case pending disposition of the appeal in a related case, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v

¶1 A condominium resident was injured when she tripped on a group of tree root offshoots concealed within the grassy common area of her complex. She sued the complex‘s contract property management company, which was tasked with performing some maintenance activities in that area. She claimed that the company had been negligent in dealing with the tree offshoots, asserting that it had breached d

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Steve A. Linick, the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA�), and Christy L. Romero, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP�), announced today that the United States has filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit against BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (“

In this appeal, we again confront the much-maligned Feres doctrine, which immunizes the United States from liability for tort claims arising out of activities incident to military service. Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950).

As with most of our Feres jurisprudence, the claims at issue arise from personal tragedy: the premature birth—and immediate death—of Jonathan Ritchie’s i

Plaintiff Dale M. Wallis invented an antigen for a bovine mastitis vaccine as part of her duties as an employee of defendant PHL Associates, Inc. (PHL), more than 20 years ago. The vaccine was eventually sold to Upjohn, and this protracted litigation has featured the contest between Wallis and PHL over the benefits related to that sale. A jury concluded that PHL and Wallis agreed that Wallis would

In this case, an insured filed a bad faith action against its insurer in the Los Angeles Superior Court. After spending a substantial amount of time litigating the case in the superior court, the parties stipulated to have their disputes resolved through binding arbitration. The terms of the stipulation were placed on the record, and the superior court retained jurisdiction, requiring the parties

Plaintiff and appellant Yanira Garcia Ramirez Castellon (plaintiff) appeals the summary judgment entered in favor of defendant and respondent U.S. Bancorp (defendant), as trustee of the Luis Villalobos Settlement Trust (the Trust), in this action for negligence and premises liability for injuries sustained when plaintiff slipped and fell outside a residence owned by the Trust. We affirm the judgme

Satya V. Reddi appeals from the order dismissing his complaint against the law firm of Hughes & Hughes and 19 individual attorneys,1 after the trial court granted a special motion to strike the complaint as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (anti-SLAPP motion). (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16.)2 Hughes & Hughes represented Satya’s former wife Lakshmi Reddi in their dissolution actionâ

Consolidate Oil Well Services, L.L.C. sued Dakota Exploration, L.L.C. on a breach of contract theory.

The specifics of the claims made are not available.

1. Defendant admits the allegations contained in paragraph 1 of Plaintiff’s Petn.

2. Defendant admits the allegations contained in paragraph 2 of Plaintiffs Ped3cn.

3. Defendant admits the allegations as to venue and

The plaintiff in this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 appeals from the dismissal (with prejudice) of his complaint. The complaint charges three Indiana police officers, plus the Town (Frankton) that employed two of them, plus the county sheriff, with malicious prosecution in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Other torts are alleged as well; we’ll come back to them. Th

Dionte Tyler brought this action under the Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Kentucky’s usury laws, alleging that the debtcollection
action instituted by DH Capital Management (DHC) sought to collect an

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No. 13-5021 Tyler v. DH Capital Management, Inc. Page 2

amount to which DHC was not legally entitled. The district court dismissed the suit,

Tulsa, Oklahoma - Vicki Lane sued Steven Anagnost, M.D., Orthopedic Center, Spine and Orthopedic Institute, AHS Hillcrest Medical Center, LLC, Southcrest, LLC, and AHS Southcrest Hospital, LLC on medical negligence (medical malpractice) theories claiming:

1. Plaintiff Vicki Lane (“Plaintiff’ or “Lane�) was and is a resident of Jenks, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, at the time of the inci

This is an appeal from a judgment after a jury trial in a case arising from two real estate transactions. Appellants Peterson Group, Inc., PGI Development, L.P., and Wellington Yu sued appellees PLTQ Lotus Group, L.P. and Cubo Group,

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L.L.C. (collectively, “PLTQ�) for money due under a purchase agreement and a real estate development agreement. PLTQ countersued for breach of the

Bernard Wallace and thousands of other young plaintiffs sued PA Child Care, Western PA Child Care and Mid-Atlantic Youth Services Corp. and others on negligence and intentional tort theories claiming that defendants ran what was called a "kids for cash" scheme in which children were locked away in facilities, often for minor offenses by judges who took illegal payments from the facilities' builder

Michelle Marie Gentry adn Dylan Michel Rogers sued William L. Jackson, M.D. and Pediatric Cardiology of Oklahoma, LLC on medical negligence theories:

The Pre-Trial Order entered by the Court before trial provided, in part:

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2. General Statement of Facts:
a. What: Malpractice/Negligence
b. Where: St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma - and Pediatric Cardiolog

Oleta Sims and Michelle Huffman, as guardian ad Litem and next friend of Terrance James Hart, a minor, sued Independent School District No. 1 of Tulsa County on a governmental tort claim negligence theory under 51 O.S. 151, et al. claiming that Terrance was injured and or damaged as a result of an employee of Defendant to exercise due care.

Plaintiff/Appellant Oleta Sims (“Sims�), as

In 2012, one of Appellants’ cruise ships, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the coast of Italy. In the wake of the accident, many of the Costa Concordia’s passengers sued Appellants (collectively referred to in this opinion as “Carnival�), filing dozens of actions in forums both in the United States and around the world. This appeal concerns two separate actions in particular, filed by

This case arises out of a fraudulent real estate mortgage scheme that involved inducing a schizophrenic trash collector into acting as a straw buyer for two overvalued residential properties in Massachusetts. That person, Robert Smith, sued various entities and individuals involved in the transactions, including the mortgage lenders, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers, and closing agents. A ju