South Dakota Interference With Economic Relation Law
<h2> <center> Seamus Culhane, Turbak Law Office, P.C., Thomas Dickson and Dickson Law Office v. Bill Trovson
Watertown, South Dakota, lawyers represented the parties in a declaratory judgement actions. Bill Thovson, a South Dakota resident, contacted attorney Seamus Culhane, a South Dakota attorney, following the tragic death of Thovson’s wife, Paula, as a result of a car accident in North Dakota on July 28, 2020. Culhane agreed to represent Thovson and his minor daughter in relation to Paula’... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - SD)<H2> United States of America v. Moses Crowe
Sturgis, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aiding and abetting a carjacking resulting inserious bodily injury, aiding and abetting the use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon. <br> <br> Saul Crowe forced Phillip Moore at gunpoint to drive a van from a Walmart store to the Ramkota Hotel... More...
$0 (07-17-2025 - sd)<h1> United States of America v. Elijah Barse </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Carjacking and Carrying and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Jury Finds Sioux Falls Man Guilty of Carjacking and Carrying and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Re... More...
$0 (04-30-2025 - SD)<h1> United States of America v. Deyvin Morales; Juan Francisco Alvarez-Sorto; Karla Lopez-Gutierrez</h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Kidnapping; Carjacking; Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence; Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person; and Unlawful Reentry after Deportation</font </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b><br> Two Men and a... More...
$0 (04-28-2024 - SD)FIRST NATIONAL BANK v. SHARMIN R. INGHRAM, JUSTIN GLEN INGHRAM a.k.a. JUSTIN G. INGHRAM
<center><h3><font color="red"><h3><font color="red"> Pierre, South Dakota - Real Estate lawyer represented defendants and <br> appellants with appealing foreclosure of their real estate and replevin of their business. </h3></font></b></i></center></font></center><br> For summary judgment purposes, we must view the facts most <br> favorably to the Inghrams. These facts show that FNB has a local br... More...
$0 (07-05-2022 - SD)JULIE NIEMITALO v. RICHARD SEIDEL
<center><h3><font color="red"><h3><font color="red"> Pierre, SD - Divorce lawyer represented Defendant and Appellee with whether their divorce agreement released Julie's right to bring a civil suit against Richard. </h3></font></b></i></center></font><br> <br> <br> [¶2.] Julie and Richard had been married for 23 years when, in September <br> 2017, she filed for divorce based on Richard's adulter... More...
$0 (04-10-2022 - SD)GANTVOORT v. RANSCHAU
<center><h3><font color="red"><h3><font color="red"> Pierre, SD - Divorce lawyer represented Plaintiff with suing his former wife for placing a hidden recording device in Doug's office. </h3></font></b></i></center></font><br> <br> [¶2.] Doug and Mary married in 1996. During the course of their marriage, <br> they owned and operated a specialty restoration business in Clear Lake, South <br> Dakot... More...
$0 (04-10-2022 - SD)United States of America v. Nathan J. Peachey and John Rick Winer
Sioux Falls, South Dakota criminal defense attorneys represented defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to obstruct, influence or impeded an official proceeding.<br> <br> Nathan J. Peachey, age 50, of Pennsylvania, and John Rick Winer, age, 67 of New Mexico, were convicted by a federal jury in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after a seven-day trial befo... More...
$0 (12-01-2021 - SD)STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. SHAWN MICHAEL SHELTON
<center><h2><font color="red"> Pierre, SD - Criminal defense attorney represented Shawn Michael Shelton with the sale of methamphetamine to a confidential informant (CI) charge.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> [¶2.] Detective Joseph Erickson (Detective Erickson) of the Yankton Police <br> Department and Special Agent Ryan Pennock (Agent Pennock) of the South Dakota <br> Division of Criminal... More...
$0 (04-26-2021 - SD)STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. DEONDRE DAVIS WILSON
<center><h2><font color="red"> Sioux Falls, SD - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Deondre Wilson with <i>claiming the existence of plain error through the admission of certain evidence and the prosecutor’s closing argument. Wilson directs an additional challenge to his assault convictions, arguing that their domestic designation reflects an essential element that was not proven a... More...
$0 (11-30-2020 - SD)STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. GRADY WILLIAMS
Sturgis, SD - Criminal Defense Attorney, possession of controlled substances, marijuana, paraphernalia, and a loaded firearm while intoxicated<br> <br> <br> <center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="400" src=" https://www.overtimepaylaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/south-dakota-supreme-court-building.jpg"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h1> <font color="red"> </font> </h1><br> </center><b... More...
$0 (09-30-2020 - SD)TROY DYSART and RICHARD HEINRICH v. DRAGPIPE SALOON, LLC and PATRICK KERWIN and RAYMOND MEYERS
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$0 (09-23-2019 - SD)STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. WAYLON NATHAN UHRE
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.homefacts.com/images/offenders/southdakota/thumb/S165203320181219.jpg"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> Waylon Nathan Uhre - Registered Sex Offender </font> </h2><br> </center><br> On June 30, 2015, E.B.’s parents left E.B., then four years old, and her older brother with their grandparents in Black Hawk while they took an overnight trip. Waylon... More...
$0 (02-01-2019 - SD)Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, Mark Vargos, Honorable Craig Pfeifle, Lynne A. Valenti
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/sd/locations/rapidcty.jpg"><br> </center><br> The Oglala Sioux Tribe, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and tribal members Madonna<br> Pappan and Lisa Young brought this action against various South Dakota officials<br> under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They challenged procedures used in proceedings brought by<br> the State to remove children te... More...
$0 (09-18-2018 - SD)<h1> South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. </h1>
When a consumer purchases goods or services, theconsumer’s State often imposes a sales tax. This case requires the Court to determine when an out-of-stateseller can be required to collect and remit that tax. All concede that taxing the sales in question here is lawful. The question is whether the out-of-state seller can be held responsible for its payment, and this turns on a proper interpretati... More...
$0 (06-21-2018 - SD)ESTATE OF WAYNE KENNETH DUCHENEAUX vs. DOUGLAS D. DUCHENEAUX <table> <td>
A detailed summary of the facts underlying this case are outlined in Estate of Ducheneaux v. Ducheneaux, 2015 S.D. 11, 861 N.W.2d 519. Wayne Ducheneaux died testate on November 18, 2011, leaving six children. On January 6, 2009, Wayne executed a will dividing his estate equally among his five <br> daughters1 while “intentionally making no provisions . . . for [his] son Douglas Ducheneaux,” w... More...
$0 (04-17-2018 - SD)VARNER BEALS v. AUTOTRAC, INC <table> <td>
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 presi... More...
$0 (11-29-2017 - SD)STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. JOSHUA THOMAS SPANIOL <table> <td>
In early October 2014, H.S. (Mother) noticed her four-year-old daughter, A.S., had a brown vaginal discharge. On October 6, Mother took A.S. to see Doctor Rebecca Pengilly. Dr. Pengilly took a sample and sent it to a lab for testing, expecting results in several days. [¶3.] On October 7, Joshua Spaniol, Mother’s husband and A.S.’s father, told Mother that his penis was painful, infl... More...
$0 (05-15-2017 - SD)David Knigge v. B & L Food Stores, Inc. and Estate of Robert Allen Knigge
[¶1.] David Knigge entered into an oral employment contract with his brother, Robert Knigge, to manage a grocery store that was owned by Robert and his wife Lynette. David entered into the contract in part because Robert had cancer and a limited time to live. The contract allegedly included a severance payment to David if Lynette desired to end David’s employment after Robert’s death. Robert ... More...
$0 (02-01-2017 - SD)<b>STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. KEITH WAYNEMCLAIN HORNED EAGLE</b></h2.
On September 28, 2014, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Cheryl Walking <br> Crow called 911 to report that she had been raped earlier that morning. She <br> explained that she had walked to a cement enclosure next to the Salvation Army <br> building to sleep when a man approached her and raped her. Sioux Falls police <br> officers Bridget O’Toole and Craig Boetel responded. Officer O’Toole not... More...
$0 (09-30-2016 - SD)GRANITE BUICK v. RAY
Adam Ray began his employment with Granite Buick in 2005. At the <br> time, Granite Buick was known as McKie Buick GMC Pontiac, Inc., and it was part <br> of the “McKie Automotive Group” (McKie Group) that included McKie Ford <br> (formerly McKie Ford Lincoln Mercury, Inc.). Therefore, Ray worked for both <br> Granite Buick and McKie Ford until the McKie Group split in 2012, at which time <b... More...
$0 (12-11-2015 - SD)KLEIN v. SANFORD USD MED. CTR
On January 16, 2011, at approximately 1:00 a.m., thirty-eight-year-old <br> Nicholas Klein drove to the Sanford USD Medical Center emergency department <br> after being struck in the throat and head during an altercation at a bar. The <br> nurse’s notes recorded Klein “has a normal mood and effect. . . . His mood appears <br> not anxious. He does not exhibit a depressed mood. He expresses ... More...
$0 (12-11-2015 - SD)Schaefer v. TEA Area School District
The city of Sioux Falls spans at least eight different school districts.1 <br> The TASD, one of those districts, was created in 2004 by the Lennox School District <br> 41-4 Reorganization Plan. This plan was approved by the Department of Education <br> in 2003. The TASD covers the city of Tea and includes portions of southwest Sioux <br> Falls. One such area is the Westwood Valley Addition to ... More...
$0 (11-12-2015 - SD)CASPER LODGING v. AKERS
On October 15, 2003, Robert Akers agreed to sell to James Koehler a <br> “turn key Eighty-Four (84) unit Holiday Inn Express” in Casper, Wyoming. The <br> purchase price was set at $4,850,400. The hotel was not yet built; therefore, the <br> parties executed a contract entitled “Improvement Purchase Agreement” <br> (Agreement). The Agreement “set forth the terms and conditions under w... More...
$0 (10-29-2015 - SD)OLESON v. YOUNG
Oleson agreed to plead guilty to first-degree rape in exchange for the <br> dismissal of the remaining charges and the part II information. The court <br> canvassed Oleson at the change-of-plea hearing individually as to his statutory and <br> constitutional rights. Notably, and for purposes of this appeal, the court did not <br> canvass Oleson as to his right against self-incrimination; nor did... More...
$0 (08-29-2015 - SD)REINTS v. PENNINGTON CTY
The relevant facts are not disputed. Reints turned 70 years old in <br> March 2014. As of that time, he had owned and resided in a single-family home in <br> Pennington County for three years, including at least eight months in 2013. Reints <br> lived alone and had a household income of less than $16,000 in 2013. <br> [¶3.] In January 2014, prior to turning 70, Reints applied to the County fo... More...
$0 (08-29-2015 - SD)Jason Petrik v. JJ Concrete, Inc. and EMC Insurance Company
[¶1.] Jason Petrik (Employee) was injured when he ran from a co-worker on the job site after tricking that co-worker out of an air-conditioned truck. JJ Concrete, Inc. (Employer) and EMC Insurance Company (Insurer) denied workers' compensation benefits to Employee because Employee's act was horseplay and, therefore, the injury did not "arise out of†or "in the course of†his employmen... More...
$0 (06-03-2015 - SD)Patrick Nickles v. Kacie Jo Marta Nickles
[¶1.] Patrick and Kacie Nickles divorced. Patrick appeals the circuit court's decisions on child custody, child support, rehabilitative alimony, property division, and attorney's fees. We affirm the circuit court's decision on child custody. On all other issues, we reverse and remand for the entry of findings sufficient to permit appellate review.<br> Facts and Procedural History<br> [¶2.] Kacie... More...
$0 (06-03-2015 - SD)Rudolf Milbrandt v. Bibb's, Inc.
[¶1.] Milbrandt was injured in an automobile accident during his course of employment for Bibbs, Inc. (Employer). Milbrandt settled a claim against the other driver involved in the accident. Milbrandt used part of the settlement proceeds to repay workers' compensation benefits already paid by Employer. The remaining amount of his settlement, after costs, was determined to be "like damages†... More...
$0 (04-01-2015 - SD)Aaron Terveen v. South Dakota Department of Transportation
[¶1.] Aaron Terveen was on a business trip from Belle Fourche to Yankton, South Dakota. On the return trip, Terveen was injured in a car accident outside Belle Fourche while driving on a dead-end road just off the highway. Terveen applied for workers' compensation benefits. The Department of Labor granted Terveen's claim, but the circuit court reversed. We affirm.<br> Facts and Procedural History... More...
$0 (03-04-2015 - SD)Planned Parenthood Minnesota v. Mike Rounds
The Governor and Attorney General of South Dakota ("the Stateâ€), along with two intervening crisis pregnancy centers and two of their personnel (collectively "Intervenorsâ€), appeal the district court's permanent injunction barring enforcement of a South Dakota statute requiring the disclosure to patients seeking abortions of an "[i]ncreased risk of suicide ideation and suicide,†... More...
$0 (07-24-2012 - SD)16 Jade Street, LLC v. R. Design Co., LLC
This case presents the novel question of whether a member of a limited liability company can be held personally liable for torts committed while acting in furtherance of the company's business. We hold the General Assembly did not intend the LLC act to shield a member from liability for his own torts. <br><br>FACTUAL/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND<br><br>Carl R. Aten, Jr., and his wife are the only member... More...
$0 (04-04-2012 - SD)Cindy Tripp v. Western National Mutual Ins.
Cindy Tripp suffered injuries in a motor vehicle accident and settled her claims against the at-fault driver. She then sought $150,000 from her own insurer, Western National Mutual Insurance Company (Western), an amount which represented the remaining limits of her underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage. When Western only offered $10,000 to settle the UIM claim, Tripp brought suit asserting claims o... More...
$0 (12-29-2011 - SD)Andrea G. Bjornestad v. Progressive Northern Insurance
Andrea Bjornestad suffered injuries in a motor vehicle accident and settled her claims against the at-fault driver. She then sought $75,000 from her own insurer, Progressive Northern Insurance Company (Progressive), an amount which represented the remaining limits of her underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage. When Progressive offered $25,000 to settle the UIM claim, Bjornestad brought suit assertin... More...
$0 (12-29-2011 - SD)Stephen Novotny v. Tripp County, South Dakota
Stephen Novotny (Novotny) appeals the district court's summary judgment order in favor of appellees dismissing his claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985. After sorting through the sundry allegations made in Novotny's brief, we are unable to agree with his contention that the district court improperly granted summary judgment.2 Accordingly, we affirm.<br><br>I.<br><br>"We revi... More...
$0 (12-19-2011 - SD)Clarkson and Company v. Continental Resources, Inc.
[¶1.] Clarkson and Company (Clarkson) owned and leased land in Harding County, South Dakota, on which Continental Resources, Inc. (Continental) conducted oil and gas exploration activities. Continental agreed to pay Clarkson for use of and damage to Clarkson's property. Clarkson sued Continental, seeking declaratory relief to clarify the terms of the payment agreement Continental and Clarkson mad... More...
$0 (11-09-2011 - SD)Clarkson and Company v. Continental Resources, Inc.
[¶1.] Clarkson and Company (Clarkson) owned and leased land in Harding County, South Dakota, on which Continental Resources, Inc. (Continental) conducted oil and gas exploration activities. Continental agreed to pay Clarkson for use of and damage to Clarkson's property. Clarkson sued Continental, seeking declaratory relief to clarify the terms of the payment agreement Continental and Clarkson mad... More...
$0 (11-09-2011 - SD)Vera Martin v. American Colloid Company and American Insurance Company
[¶1.] Vera Martin lives in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, but worked at an American Colloid Company plant in Colony, Wyoming. After suffering a workrelated injury at the Colony plant, Martin received Wyoming workers' compensation benefits. She then filed a claim for South Dakota workers' compensation benefits. The South Dakota Department of Labor dismissed her claim for lack of jurisdiction, and th... More...
$0 (09-14-2011 - SD)Cindy Tolle v. Peter Lev
[¶1.] Cindy Tolle sued Peter Lev for damages for failing to transfer ownership of a cabin situated on land owned by the government in a national park. She also sued Lev for tortious interference with a business relationship she claimed with an employer. The circuit court granted summary judgment on both claims. We affirm the dismissal of the tortious interference claim but reverse and remand on t... More...
$0 (09-28-2011 - SD)Kjerstad Realty, Inc. v. Bootjack Ranch, Inc.
[¶1.] The circuit court dismissed this case when plaintiff was unable to bring the matter to trial within one year after we remanded in a previous appeal. Because good cause existed to extend the deadline, we reverse and remand.<br><br>Background<br><br>[¶2.] In December 2007, Kjerstad Realty, Inc. brought suit against Bootjack Ranch, Inc. for breach of a realty contract. Kjerstad sought and obt... More...
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