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Sandra Lavenue v. Lauren Kay Williams

Oklahoma City, OK - Sandra Lavenue sued Lauren Kay Williams

Issue # 1. Issue: TORT- PERSONAL (TORTP)
Filed By: Lavenue, Sandra
Filed Date: 06/07/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Plaintiff: Lavenue, Sandra Disposed: FINAL ORDER, 11/13/2017. Judge
Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
06-07-2016 TEXT

CIVIL RELIEF MORE THAN

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MOHSIN RAZA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. FARUKH IQBAL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MOHAMMAD ALI HAIDER UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. HUMAIRA IQBAL United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

On April 23, 2015, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, returned a seven
count indictment against the defendants — who were former employees of SunTrust’s
Annandale branch.2 The indictment’s first count charged them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, in contravention of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.3
Counts 2 through 7 made substantive allegations

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Joan Mullin v. Karen Balicki Despite Lawyer's Error, Evidence of Guard-Encouraged Inmate Suicide Revives Lawsuit

During the early morning hours of January 17, 2009, New Jersey prisoner Robert Mullin hanged himself with a bedsheet that he had fashioned into a noose. The twentynine-year-old Robert had been in and out of prison for the better part of a decade, in part due to his ongoing struggles with substance abuse. While serving out his latest sentence at a halfway house, Robert was found in possession of

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Scott R. McCoy v. Jessica A. Tharpe

Oklahoma City, OK - Scott R. McCoy sued Jessica A. Tharpe


Issue # 1. Issue: TORT- PERSONAL (TORTP)
Filed By: Mccoy, Scott R
Filed Date: 03/16/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: Tharpe, Jessica A Disposed: JUDGEMENT FOR DEFENDANT, 11/08/2017. Jury Trial
Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
03-16-2016 TEXT

C

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Cody Craig v. Bob Mills Furniture Company, LLC, James Sesock and TCB Delivery, Inc.

Oklahoma City, OK - Cody Craig sued Bob Mills Furniture Company, LLC, James Sesock and TCB Delivery, Inc., which was schedules for delivery on May 15, 2015. Cody Graig was the owners and operator of TCB Delivery. Craig was instructed to deliver furniture not purchased by the purchasers of the other furniture. During the assemble of a murphy bed, Sesock stomped on the bed causing a spring-loaded l

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Joan Kedra v. Richard Schroeter Third Circuit Court of Appeals - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

This case arises from the grievous death of State
Trooper David Kedra, who was shot and killed by his
instructor, then-Corporal Richard Schroeter, during a routine
firearms training. Although a long-term veteran of the police
force and specifically certified in the safe use of firearms,
** Honorable Michael J. Melloy, Senior Circuit Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for

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Rose Brown v. Augustin Garcia Lake County Courthouse - Lake Port, California

This action is between two groups of the Elem Indian Colony Pomo Tribe (the
Tribe), the “Brown faction” (plaintiffs) and the “Garcia Council” (defendants).
Plaintiffs sued the Garcia Council over allegedly defamatory statements published in a
notification that warned they would be disenrolled if the Tribe’s General Council found
them guilty of specified crimes. The trial court rule

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VARNER BEALS v. AUTOTRAC, INC South Dakota Supreme Court

AutoTrac Inc. is a manufacturing company located in Fairfax, South Dakota. John Parsons founded AutoTrac as a sole proprietorship focused on automotive and farm-equipment repair. After Parsons’s cousin Dennis Howard became involved in the company, AutoTrac’s focus shifted to manufacturing. In 2008, AutoTrac was incorporated as a subchapter S corporation. Howard serves as AutoTrac’s president a

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Samuel Topchain v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Missouri Court of Appeals - Western District Courthouse - Kansas City, Missouri

Samvel Topchian appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri,
granting summary judgment to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (Chase), Martin, Leigh, Laws &
Fritzlen, PC (MLLF), and Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. (SPS) on Topchian’s claims of breach
of contract (against Chase), violations of the Missouri Merchandizing Practices Act (MMPA)
(against Chase, MLLF, and

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Larry Alexander, et al. v. Ingram Barge Company Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse - Chicago, Illinois

At 5:33 in the evening on April 18, 2013,
a 14‐barge tow pushed by the M/V Dale A. Heller was sucked
into a powerful cross‐current and broke up. Some of the
barges crashed (or allided, as mariners would say) into the
Marseilles Dam; some sank; some were saved. The accident
happened during record‐breaking rains and high water, and
2 No. 16‐4264
a

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STATE OF UTAH v. BENJAMIN DAVID RETTIG Man gets 25 years to life for his role in BYU prof's slaying

In November 2009, Benjamin Rettig and Martin Bond traveled from Vernal, Utah, to the home of Kay Mortensen in Spanish Fork, Utah.1 Mortensen owned a large supply of firearms that were located in a “bunker” behind his home. Bond and Rettig traveled to his home with the intent to steal some of his firearms. The two entered Mortensen’s home with a handgun while wearing ski masks and latex gloves. The

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Floyd Allen Hardrick, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse - Cincinnati, Ohio

Dog bites dog. So begins this federal case about searches and
seizures allegedly gone awry, if not the newspaper story about the dispute. Detroit has a straydog
problem. As many as 50,000 of them roam the city’s streets and abandoned homes,
sometimes in packs. One group in a position to appreciate the seriousness of the problem, the
United States Postal Service, ranked Detroit sixt

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Chance Marcus Clyce v. Nadine Bulter Northern District of Texas Federal Courthouse - Dallas, Texas

Chance Clyce appeals the district court’s dismissal of his claims as barred by Texas’s statute of limitations. The district court held that when a minor’s parents bring a lawsuit on his behalf as next friends, the statute of limitations for those claims is not tolled during his period of minority if they were aggressively litigated through the prior lawsuit. Because we hold that the district court

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Teresa Ann Hensley v. Michael Scott Price Western District of North Carolina Courthouse - Charlotte, North Carolina

Deputies Michael Price and Keith Beasley (collectively, the “Deputies”)—both employed by the Haywood County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Department—shot and killed David Hensley outside his home on the morning of August 9, 2012. The plaintiffs—Hensley’s widow and two daughters—brought suit against the Deputies in both their individual and official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and North Carolina

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Hossein Shahbazian v. City of Rancho Palos verdes

Governments speak. They also petition. And they act in
ways that are neither speaking nor petitioning. It is important to
distinguish between the three, because Code of Civil Procedure
section 425.16 (section 425.16) may apply to the first two, but not
the third.
This case concerns whether the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes properly issued a permit for a fence separating two

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Jana Lee Flanagan and Lucas Matthew Flanagan v. RBD San Antonio LP, Davidson Hotel Company LLC and G4S

Jana Lee and Lucas Matthew Flanagan appeal traditional and no-evidence summary judgments granted in favor of RBD San Antonio L.P., Davidson Hotel Company LLC, and G4S Secure Solutions (USA) Inc. in a premises liability case based on an alleged aggravated assault at a hotel. The Flanagans contend the trial court erred in granting the summary judgments and in sustaining objections to their summary j

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Rebeca D. Balderas-Ramirez v. Anthony Carl Felder Travis County Courthouse - Austin, Texas

Rebeca D. Balderas-Ramirez appeals a final summary judgment that she take nothing
on claims she had asserted against Anthony Carl Felder following an automobile collision. The
pivotal issues on appeal concern whether Balderas-Ramirez presented any competent evidence of
property damages—including several years’ worth of claimed loss-of-use damages—and whether
any such damages exceed

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Hossein Shahbazian v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes

Governments speak. They also petition. And they act in
ways that are neither speaking nor petitioning. It is important to
distinguish between the three, because Code of Civil Procedure
section 425.16 (section 425.16) may apply to the first two, but not
the third.
This case concerns whether the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes properly issued a permit for a fence separating two

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Justin Hammett v. Paulding County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Elbert P. Tuttle Federal Courthouse - Atlanta, Georgia

On October 17, 2012, police officers Joey Horsley, Nathalie Whitener, and
Joseph Mayfield, defendants-appellees in this case, executed a search warrant at a
private residence in Hiram, Georgia, intending to seize methamphetamines
suspected to be in the possession of Brenda Van Cleve. During the execution of
the warrant, a confrontation ensued. Each of the officers fired one shot, t

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COMMONWEALTH vs. J.A., a juvenile. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The following facts are taken from the
testimony presented to the grand jury. In August, 2015, when
the juvenile was fourteen years old, he tortured a friend's dog
by shoving a soap dispenser pump into the dog's vagina,
1 Unlike a delinquent child, who is subject to rehabilitative penalties and remedies, a "youthful offender" is subject to penalties that

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William Rumburg, et ux. v. Ferry County PUD #1, et al. Ferry County Courthouse - Republic, Washington

At issue is whether William and Carol Rumburg timely filed suit
under tolling and grace periods provided by RCW 4.96.020, the local government tort
claim filing statute. After serving a second notice of claim on local government
defendants and allowing 60 days for the defendants to respond, the Rumburgs relied on
the statutory 5-day grace period in filing suit. The respondents cont

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STATE OF LOUISIANA Vs. SHAVEZ WILEY Shavez Wiley convicted of 2011 murder, Orleans jury splits on 2 attempted murder counts

On January 17, 2012, a grand jury returned an indictment charging
Defendant with one count of second degree murder and two counts of attempted
second degree murder, violations of La. R.S. 14:30.1 and 14:27/14.30.1,
respectively. On January 23, 2012, Defendant appeared for arraignment and
entered pleas of not guilty on all charges. On January 31, 2012, Defendant filed
motio

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Forest Walker v. Ford Motor Company

¶1 In this products liability case, we consider whether the trial court erred when it gave a jury instruction that allowed the jury to apply either the consumer expectation test or the risk-benefit test to determine whether a driver’s car seat was unreasonably
dangerous due to a design defect. The court of appeals concluded that the trial court

did err by instructing the jury se

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Aleksandr Vasilenko v. Grace Family Church

Plaintiff Aleksandr Vasilenko was struck by a car as he crossed a public
street between the main premises of defendant Grace Family Church (the Church)
and the Church’s overflow parking area. Vasilenko contends that the Church
owed him a duty of care to assist him in safely crossing the public street and that
the Church was negligent in failing to do so. The Church argues that it h

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Bret Cornell v. City and County of San Francisco

Police officer trainee Bret Cornell, while off-duty and in street clothes, went for a
run one morning in Golden Gate Park, stopping for a brief rest on a knoll called Hippie
Hill. Two uniformed patrol officers in the area spotted him, thought he looked
“worried,” and grew suspicious because the bushes on Hippie Hill are known for illicit
drug activity. As the patrolmen began to app

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