At around 11 p.m. on June 21, 2016, Marysville Police Officer James Leis saw a truck driving with a burnt-out driver's side headlamp. Leis turned his patrol vehicle around and followed the truck for a short time but did not observe any erratic driving or other traffic violations. After Leis initiated his emergency lights, the truck pulled over without incident. Leis approached the driver's side of... More...   $0 (09-10-2018 - KS)

The appellants (landowners) own eight lots in an area of
Rancho Palos Verdes that is the subject of a 1978 building
moratorium based on the resurgence of an ancient landslide.1 In
the trial court, the landowners sought relief from the building
moratorium and damages for inverse condemnation primarily on
the basis of our opinion in Monks v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes
(2008)... More...   $0 (09-10-2018 - CA)

This is a civil-rights case, brought under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3604(c); 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and 42 U.S.C. § 1985, challenging the maintenance of records that contain racially restrictive covenants such as deeds, plat maps, and other real-estate documents maintained by county recorders throughout the state of Ohio.
Plaintiff-Appellant, Darryl Mason, seeks injunctive relief to compel... More...   $0 (09-06-2018 - OH)

The Tubbses own and operate a farm in a floodplain near the Missouri River in Holt
County, Missouri. The farm is located just southeast of Big Lake and about three-and-a-half
miles east of the Missouri River. BNSF, an interstate freight railroad, owns and operates a track
that runs east to west across the floodplain and bisects the Tubbses’ farm. The track sits atop an
earth... More...   $0 (09-05-2018 - MO)

DNA evidence exonerated Joseph E. White and the five other plaintiffs of rape
and murder. They sued Gage County and the officers involved in their case. After
an appeal from summary judgment and a mistrial on remand, the district court
dismissed plaintiffs’ conspiracy claim and all claims against Gage County. The
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district court denied qualified immunity to the officers. Hav... More...   $0 (08-30-2018 - NE)

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois, has been trying to acquire a 400-acre estate in Barrington after the owners defaulted on a mortgage and note held by the Forest Preserve. The Forest Preserve foreclosed and then bought the property at the foreclosure auction. The original owners have expressed their opposition by filing five lawsuits of their own, in addition to raising af-fir... More...   $0 (07-26-2018 - IL)

Without prior notice, the City of New Orleans demolished a building
along the IH-10 service road that plaintiffs had recently purchased at a tax
sale. Yet two days before the demolition, the City actually cancelled the Code
Enforcement lien on the property, which it obtained after sending notices only
to the owner from 18 years earlier. When the Garretts objected to the
demolit... More...   $0 (06-25-2018 - LA)

Tulsa, OK - State of Oklahoma ex rel. Department of Transportation sued Daniel G. Kamin Sand Springs I, LLC, Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company, Wal-Mart and Tulsa County Board of Commissioners on an eminent domain theory seeking to obtain certain rights, title and interests in real property for public use.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTA... More...   $93700 (06-05-2018 - OK)

This case appears before this Court following an earlier remand to the trial court. See
Anderton v. City of Cedar Hill, 447 S.W.3d 84, 87 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2014, pet. denied). Because
the procedural history of this case is well-known to the parties, we focus only on those facts
relevant to this appeal.
In 2000, the City adopted a Comprehensive Plan to implement changes along ... More...   $0 (05-30-2018 - TX)

This is the fourth published
appellate opinion in a long-running dispute between New
West and the City of Joliet. New West filed this suit in March
2005, contending that the City had interfered with the way in
which it set rents at the Evergreen Terrace apartment complex
under the national government’s mark-to-market program
for rates at subsidized apartments. New West also... More...   $0 (05-23-2018 - O:)

In this appeal of an inverse condemnation action, Defendant-Appellant the City of St. Pete Beach (“the City”) challenges a jury verdict in favor of Plaintiffs Katherine A. Chmielewski and Paul Chmielewski, as personal representative of the estate of Chester Chmielewski (“the Chmielewskis”). The underlying dispute involves a beachfront parcel, owned by the Chmielewskis, which experienced significan... More...   $0 (05-21-2018 - FL)

T.M.M.H., who was born on November 5, 2006, was a few months old when his father died in 2007. When T.M.M.H. was young, Mother and Grandmother agreed he would live for a period of time with Grandmother. We know little about this agreement. Whatever the initial arrangement may have been between Mother and Grandmother, at some point in 2008, Grandmother filed a petition in district court for grandpa... More...   $0 (05-12-2018 - KS)

Based on a drug trafficking investigation focusing on Mr. Jackson and 1016
Beardsley Street in Akron, police officers obtained a search warrant for the residence at 1016
Beardsley Street. On the day the search warrant was to be executed, police watched the
residence and waited until they saw Mr. Jackson and his sister leave the residence together in a
rental car. Police condu... More...   $0 (04-11-2018 - OH)

Plaintiffs sued defendants People ex rel. Department of Transportation
(CalTrans), and Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA; collectively,
Agencies), for inverse condemnation and nuisance. The complaint alleged a freeway
sound wall the Agencies built directly across the freeway from Plaintiffs’ homes
increased the noise and dust Plaintiffs experienced, interfered with ... More...   $0 (03-04-2018 - CA)

One morning, a SWAT team raided a St. Louis house in which the plaintiffs
lived to execute a search warrant. According to the warrant affidavit, a detective
suspected that the house contained heroin, illegal firearms, and drug-trafficking
paraphernalia. The team knocked on the door, yelled "police," and quickly began
striking the door with a battering ram. The team also tossed a "f... More...   $0 (02-18-2018 - MO)

Paul Chissoe applied to transfer restricted Indian land he owned (the Property)
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in trust. When Mr. Chissoe died, the BIA
Superintendent of the Okmulgee Agency (Superintendent) terminated his application.
His son, Plaintiff Darrell Chissoe, asked the Superintendent to reinstate the
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application and to complete the transfer.1 The Superintend... More...   $0 (02-16-2018 - OK)

After wastewater pumps in their neighborhood failed during a heavy rainfall, four homeowners sued the pumping facility operator, alleging that the operator’s negligence caused wastewater to flood their homes. The trial court granted summary
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judgment. The homeowners appeal, contending that they adduced evidence that raises a fact issue as to each element of their negligence claim. Because... More...   $0 (02-15-2018 - TX)

Stillwater, OK - Grand Mesa Pipeline LLC used Donna Elizabeth Ward on an eminent domain theory seeking to acquire certain rights, title and interests in real property owned by her for the construction of a pipeline.

Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
08-17-2015 TEXT

CIVIL RELIEF MORE THAN $10,000 INITIAL FILING.
1
08-17-2015 CONDEMN ... More...   $0 (02-05-2018 - OK)

Tulsa, OK - The Oklahoma Department of Transportation sued Broken Arrow Partnership, LLC, et al. on an eminent domain theory seeking to acquire by condemnation certain rights, title and interests in real property owned by the defendants for public use.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Filed Date: 12/17/2008
Party Name Disposit... More...   $0 (02-02-2018 - OK)

The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy
Commission) is the state agency exclusively empowered to license thermal power plants
of over 50 megawatts capacity. (Pub. Resources Code, §§ 25120, 25500, 25517; see City
of Sonoma v. State Energy Resources Conservation etc. Com. (1985) 40 Cal.3d 361, 364–
365 (Sonoma).)1
Indeed, pursuant to section 25... More...   $0 (01-20-2018 - CA)

Tulsa, OK - City of Tulsa sued J.S.C. Properties I, LLC a/k/a JSC Properties I, LLC, et al.

The Commissioners appointed by the Court awarded the Defendants $115,000.00 for the property taken and damages to the remainder.

ssue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: CITY OF TULSA OKLAHOMA
Filed Date: 06/23/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant:... More...   $0 (01-16-2018 - OK)

Don Karns and Robert Parker filed civil rights actions against the New Jersey Transit Corporation (“NJ Transit”) and NJ Transit Officers Kathleen Shanahan and Sandra McKeon Crowe in their official and individual capacities, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Officers Shanahan and Crowe arrested Karns and Parker for defiant trespass and obstruction of justice after... More...   $0 (01-14-2018 - NJ)

This case involves several issues of Texas law relating to an insurer’s duty to defend and the damages that an insured may recover when an insurer breaches that duty. The district court, after disposing of much of the case through a series of partial summary judgment rulings and conducting a bench trial on one remaining claim, issued a final judgment that largely (though not entirely) favored the ... More...   $0 (12-25-2017 - TX)

Defendants David T. Smith and the City of Key West (collectively “defendants”) moved for panel rehearing of an opinion originally filed on October 5, 2017 and reported at __ F. App’x __, 2017 WL 4422465. Defendants also moved for publication of the opinion. We grant in part and deny in part the defendants’ motion for panel rehearing, grant the defendants’ motion for publication of the opinion, vac... More...   $0 (12-11-2017 - FL)

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 twoMore...   $0 (11-25-2017 - CA)