Idaho Judgment Law
<h2> <center> Doctors Stacy Seyb, M.D. v. Members of the Idaho Board of Medicine, et al. </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho, civil rights lawyers represent the Plaintiff seeking a declaratory judgement Enjoining the enforcement of Idaho's the enforcement of the Fetal Heartbeat Act, Idao Code 18-8804. Dr. Seyb brought this action seeking to enjoin Idaho officials from prosecuting him if he performed an abortion where pregnancy posed a non-negligible risk of serious and lasting harm to the health of the p... More...
$ (11-02-2026 - ID)Doe v. Doe
Grangeville, Idaho, family law lawyers represented the parties in a parental rights termination case.<br> <br> In 2017, Mother and Doe had a sexual relationship which resulted in Child being born. While in jail, Mother found out that she was pregnant; Mother let Doe know he could be the father. Doe was not listed as Child's father on Child's birth certificate. Doe was incarcerated in 2018 when Ch... More...
$0 (11-07-2025 - ID)State of Idaho v. Robin Lee Row
Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder.<br> <br> Robin Lee Row was sentenced to death in 1993 for murdering her husband and two<br> children in their sleep on February 10, 1992. Over the next 30 years, Row filed five petitions for<br> post-conviction relief in state court and two federal habeas corpus claims, all of which were<br> unsuccessful.... More...
$0 (09-26-2025 - ID)State of Idaho v. Annette Dee Reed
Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant who was charged with sexual battery by lewd or lascivious conduct with a minor sixteen to seventeen years of age.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> CRIMINAL LAW. SENTENCING DISCRETION. The case involved an appeal against a unified sentence of twenty years, with a minimum period of confinement of ten years, for the offense of sexual battery c... More...
$0 (03-04-2025 - ID)<center) State of Idaho v. Wade William Denny
Pocatello, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with delivery of drugs while children were present.<br> <br> <br> In exchange for his guilty plea, the charges in his consolidated case were dismissed. The district court sentenced Denny o a determinate term of three years.[1] In Docket No. 51074, Denny pled guilty to two counts of intimidating a witness. I.C. § 18-26... More...
$0 (02-25-2025 - ID)Fred M. Martino, et al. v. Manuel Rose, et al.
Sandpoint, Idaho real property lawyers represented the parties in a title dispute case.<br> <br> Manuel Rose and Melissa Rose (the "Roses") purchased certain real property (the "Rose Property") from the F &M Martino Family Trust. Fred M. Martino and Michelle M. Martino (the "Martinos"), acting as trustees, transferred the property to the Roses by warranty deed. Several years before the transfer, ... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - ID)State of Idaho v. Daniel Ruiz Ortiz
Mountain Home, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder.<br> <br> niel Ruiz Ortiz appeals from his convictions for second-degree murder and a violation of a no contact order, alleging that the district court erred when it denied his motion to suppress evidence discovered during a warrantless search of his home and during a subsequent search conducte... More...
$0 (01-08-2025 - ID)State of Idaho v. Michaele Renee Green
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated battery and eluding a police officer.<br> <br> Michele Renee Green was found guilty of aggravated battery on certain law enforcement personnel, I.C. §§ 18-915(1) and 18-907, and eluding a peace officer, I.C. § 49-1404(2)(b). The district court sentenced Green to unified term of twenty years, with a mini... More...
$0 (01-07-2025 - ID)In the Matter of: Jane Doe, II, A Child Under Eighteen (18) Years of Age </H2>
<h2><br> Caldwell, Idaho family law lawyer represented the father in a termination of parental rights case.<br> </h2><br> Doe is the father of Child; Doe was married to Mother, but the two divorced. Mother is currently married to Stepfather. Mother and Stepfather filed a petition seeking to terminate Doe's parental rights to Child and to allow Stepfather to adopt Child. The petition for terminatin... More...
$0 (12-03-2024 - ID)State of Idaho v. Robert Kenneth Wilde
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant ordered to pay restitution.<br> </h2><br> <br> Wilde was initially charged with two felonies, including trafficking in heroin under Idaho Code section 37-2732B(a)(6)(B), and one count of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. One felony charge was dismissed at the preliminary hearing. Wilde subsequently pleaded gui... More...
$0 (11-07-2024 - ID)State of Idaho v. Thomas Aaron Warren
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged felony malicious injury to property.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Thomas Aaron Warren pled guilty to felony malicious injury to property. Idaho Code § 187001(2). In exchange for his guilty plea, additional charges were dismissed. The district court placed Warren on probation and withheld judgment for a period of four yea... More...
$0 (11-12-2024 - ID)State of Idaho v. Sheryl D. Robertson
<h2><br> Challis, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant <br> </h2><br> Sheryl D. Robertson appeals from the district court's disposition judgment revoking her probation. Robertson argues the district court violated her due process rights and that such error rises to the level of fundamental error. Robertson was afforded the due process provided for in the Idaho Rules for Treatmen... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - ID)<h1> United States of America v. Brett Deuter; Deuter Construction, LLC; Enlighten, LLC </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with COVID-19 Relief Fraud Allegations </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Businesses and Their Owner Consent to an $850,000 Judgment to Resolve COVID-19 Relief Fraud Allegations</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Brett Deuter and... More...
$0 (10-01-2024 - ID)Catherine Sullivan v. Blaine County and Megan Gruver
<h2><br> Hailey, Idaho planning and zoning lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> Catherine Sullivan, owns residential property next to property<br> owned by Megan Gruver who lives on and operates an equestrian facility on her property. Sullivan<br> appeals the district court's judgment affirming Blaine County's issuance of a modified conditional<br> use permit (the "2021 CUPâ€) to G... More...
$0 (09-26-2024 - ID)Jacob A. Wilde v. Mackala M. Wild, n/k/a Mickayla M. Taggart
<h2><br> Payette, Idaho divorce lawyers represented husband and wife in a marriage dissolution action.<br> </h2><br> <br> Wilde and Taggart's judgment and decree of divorce was entered on June 18, 2018. The parties are the parents of one minor child, E.W., born in 2015. The original judgment ordered Wilde to payTaggart$143.07 in child supportper month. <br> <br> Less than two months... More...
$0 (09-24-2024 - ID)Amanda Marie Secola v. Jeffrey Adam Secola
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho divorce lawyers represented the Petitioner and the Respondent in a marriage dissolution action.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> The magistrate court entered a decree of divorce in 2018, at which time the parties stipulated to joint legal and physical custody of their minor child. A petition to modify the divorce decree was later filed and a trial was held on the petition. On October... More...
$0 (08-12-2024 - ID)John Marquette and Judy Cornish v. Levi Falck and Sarrah Falck </center<
<h2><br> Bonners Ferry, Idaho real property lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued on a coventant violation theory.<br> </h2><br> <br> Levi and Sarrah Falck (the Falcks) appeal from the second amended final judgment granting injunctive relief after the district court found their activities and use of their property violated the covenants, conditions, and restrictions of Meadow Creek Estates. T... More...
$0 (08-16-2024 - ID)Kerry Angelos, et al. v. Greg Schatzel, et al.
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho defamation personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> Kerry Angelos brought a defamation lawsuit against Greg and Susan Schatzel alleging that they created a website that published defamatory comments about Angelos from purported third-parties. However, during the course of the lawsuit, Angelos suffered financial setbacks and his interests in the act... More...
$0 (08-19-2024 - ID)State of Idaho v. Desiree Elaine Karst
<h2><br> Coeuir d'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession.<br> </h2><br> <br> Karst was a passenger in a car during a traffic stop in Kootenai County. The officer<br> initiating the traffic stop radioed for a drug dog, which arrived and alerted. Karst admitted to having<br> drugs in the car, and additional drugs and paraphernalia were found on Ka... More...
$0 (08-05-2024 - ID)State of Idaho v. Justin Dean Peterson
<h2><br> Coeur d'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony driving under the influence (DUI), in violation of Idaho Code 188004, 8005(6).<br> </H2><br> <br> 18-8004. Persons under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxicating substances. <br> (1) (a) It is unlawful for any person who is under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any other intoxi... More...
$0 (07-05-2024 - ID)Jeremy Lanningham v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Idaho, et al.
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.<br> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> This case concerns an insurance company's denial of a claim for underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage by the adult heirs of Jay Lanningham. Lanningham died in a tragic car accident caused by an underinsured motorist.[1] He had an insura... More...
$0 (07-03-2024 - ID)Donald Paradis v. A.J. Arave, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiray, et al.
Donald Paradis, a state prisoner, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.<br> <br> Paradis seeks review of his conviction on the following grounds:<br> <br> One. The evidence was insufficient to demonstrate that Kimberly Palmer was killed in the state of Idaho.<br> <br> Two. The state failed to preserve exculpatory evidence.<br>... More...
$0 (01-24-1992 - ID)United States of America v. Rachel Peay-Goodman
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully prescribing controlled substances and submitting false claims to Medicare while working for AmeriHealth in Pocatello.<br> <br> Rachel Peay-Goodman, a nurse practitioner in eastern Idaho, wrote prescriptions for dangerous combinations of drugs to at least one patient, including simultaneous prescriptions for oxycodo... More...
$0 (06-13-2023 - ID)Christopher Conley Tapp v. City of Idaho Falls, et al.
Pocatello, Idaho civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.<br> <br> Christopher Conley Tapp claimed that he was coerced into confessing to being involved in the rape and murder of Angie Doge, age 18, on June 13, 1996, and as a direct result he was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated from 1998 to 2019.<br> <br> 01/27/2... More...
$0 (07-18-2022 - ID)Christopher Conley Tapp v. State of Idaho
<br> This Court summarized the facts of this case in State v. Tapp, 136 Idaho 354, 33 P.3d 828 (Ct. App. 2001) as follows:<br> <br> Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LE... More...
$0 (08-22-2014 - ID)Christopher Conley Tapp v. State of Idaho
In his second appeal in this post-conviction case, Christopher Conley Tapp challenges the district court's summary dismissal of his claim that his defense counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to present evidence of his diminished mental capacity in support of his trial motion to suppress his confession as involuntary. Tapp contends that because this Court, in his prior post-convictio... More...
$0 (11-21-2013 - ID)Christopher Conley Tapp v. State of Idaho
Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LEB) in Idaho Falls. Tapp again voluntarily went to the LEB for questioning on January 10. After this interview, Tapp's parents retained p... More...
$0 (03-31-2010 - ID)State of Idaho v. Christopher C. Tapp
<br> Christopher C. Tapp appeals from his conviction for first degree murder and rape. Tapp argues that the district court erred by not suppressing the statements he made in a series of police interviews. In the alternative, he contends the sentences imposed are excessive.<br> <br>         I.<br> <br>         FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY<br> <br> �... More...
$0 (07-20-2001 - ID)Ford Elsaesser v. Black Diamond Compost, LLC
Boise, Idaho civil litigation lawyer sued Defendants on a real property law theory.<br> <br> This matter has a long and convoluted backstory spanning multiple cases and appeals. The principal actors in this saga are Ford Elsaesser, the personal representative of the Estate of Victoria H. Smith (the "Personal Representative"),[1] and Vernon K. Smith ("Vernon"), a son of Victoria and the attorney fo... More...
$0 (07-08-2022 - ID)State of Idaho v. Christopher Conley Tapp </ceenter>
Idaho Falls, Idaho criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with rape and first-degree murder.<br> <br> <br> Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LEB) in Idaho F... More...
$0 (05-31-1998 - ID)Cesar Martinez-Rodriguez, et al. v. Curtis Giles, et al.
Boise, Idaho employment lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on force labor theories.<br> <br> Plaintiffs were six citizens of Mexico who were recruited<br> to work as "Animal Scientists†at Funk Dairy in Idaho under<br> the "TN Visa†program for "professional†employees<br> established under the North American Free Trade<br> Agreement. But when plaintiffs arrived ... More...
$0 (04-18-2022 - ID)United States of America v. David Hansen
Boise, ID - The United States of America charged David Hansen with wire fraud.<br> <br> David Hansen, 48, of Idaho Falls, pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Pursuant to a written plea agreement filed with the court, Hansen pleaded guilty to count 16 of the superseding indictment. <br> <br> According to court records, Hansen was the Chief Executive Officer and a 90-percent partner in Yellowstone Partner... More...
$0 (12-29-2019 - ID)Robert Martin v. City of Boise
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://ecf.idd.uscourts.gov/graphics/seal.gif"><br> </center><br> “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich<br> and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg<br> in the streets, and to steal their bread.”<br> — Anatole France, The Red Lily<br> We consider whether the Eighth Amendment’s<br> prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bars a city fr... More...
$0 (09-04-2018 - ID)STATE OF IDAHO v. PHILLIP R. SMALLEY <table> <td>
Smalley was employed at an assisted living facility and worked alone as the overnight caregiver. The victim, F.B., was a 102-year-old patient at the facility who had arthritis, wore <br> hearing aids, and spoke with a low voice. Her hands were deformed from the arthritis, she could only eat with a large-handled spoon, and she had difficulty swallowing. F.B. could not walk, sit up, stand, dress ... More...
$0 (05-13-2018 - ID)MFG Financial, Inc. v. Justin Vigos
Justin Vigos appeals the decision of the district court in Ada County reversing an order from the magistrate court granting his motion for summary judgment against MFG Financial, Inc. (MFG). MFG initiated this action to recover damages from a breach of contract. In 2007, Vigos purchased a vehicle from Karl Malone Toyota. The contract was assigned to Courtesy Auto Credit (Courtesy). After some time... More...
$0 (01-18-2018 - ID)Medical Recovery Services, LLC v. Robert Lopez
Medical Recovery Services, LLC (“MRS”) appeals a district court’s judgment denying its request for postjudgment attorney fees on an appeal. The dispute arose after MRS attempted to collect a debt owed by Robert Lopez (“Lopez”). The magistrate court entered a default judgment and awarded attorney fees to MRS. MRS continued to incur attorney fees while attempting to collect on the default ... More...
$0 (02-19-2018 - ID)Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. v. Lawrence G. Wasden
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 da... More...
$0 (01-09-2018 - ID)United States of America v. Dr. Rafael L. Beier
Coeur d'Alene, ID - Doctor Sentenced to 16 Years for Distributing Drugs <br> <br> Dr. Rafael Beier, 63, of Kingston, Idaho, was sentenced on November 20, 2017 to 192 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for unlawfully distributing oxycodone and hydrocodone. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Dr. Beier to pay a $63,000 fine and to forfeit procee... More...
$0 (12-02-2017 - ID)STATE OF IDAHO v. TERESA LEE TOLLMAN <table> <td>
In December 2012, Tollman pled guilty to the felony crime of driving under the influence. In March 2013, the district court sentenced Tollman to a unified term of ten years, with two and a half years fixed followed by seven and a half years indeterminate. The judgment required that Tollman’s driver’s license be absolutely suspended for five years beginning on the date of Tollman’s release fr... More...
$0 (11-26-2017 - ID)Todd J. Phillips v. Richard D. Gomez
This case arises from Richard Gomez’s breach of a real estate agreement for the sale and purchase of residential real estate from Todd Phillips in his capacity as Trustee of Trust “A” of the Elliott Family Trust. Phillips appeals the Ada County district court’s denial of Phillips’s request to recover actual damages. After a bench trial, the district court held that Phillips’s claim for... More...
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