The following facts are drawn from the minutes of testimony and the defendant’s in-court admissions. FECR268551. On August 2, 2012, Betty Ann Nall visited Earlham Bank in Des Moines and opened an account with a counterfeit U.S. postal money order in the amount of $890. Nall had received the money order from an internet secret shopper program that she suspected was a scam. On August 3, Nall dep... More...   $0 (05-07-2017 - IA)

Matthew Perdue and Team 1 Consulting, LLC each appeal a judgment entered after a bench
trial. Perdue contends the trial court erred in awarding CCNBI, Inc. damages and attorney’s fees
for its breach of contract claim and in failing to award him damages for his DTPA claim. Team 1
contends the trial court erred in only awarding it $3,000 in damages for its conversion claim and
in cal... More...   $0 (04-24-2017 - TX)

In 1993, a jury convicted Allison of first-degree premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and terroristic threat. During the sentencing portion of the trial, the jury found that the evidence established the aggravating circumstance that Allison had committed the first-degree murder in order to avoid or prevent a lawful arrest or prosecution. The jury also found that the aggr... More...   $0 (04-10-2017 - KS)

Carl Eckhardt appeals the trial court’s summary judgment awarding his sister, Darnell Nesrsta, damages on her conversion claim. Eckhardt argues he raised a fact issue as to his affirmative defense of quasi-estoppel and conclusively established Nesrsta’s claim is barred by the statute of limitations. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
BACKGROUND
When Eckhardt and Nesrsta’s fathe... More...   $0 (04-06-2017 - TX)

During the morning hours of September 22, 2012, A.B. went for a run along the
River Greenway in Fort Wayne. As A.B. approached an overpass, she saw a
man later identified as then-fifteen-year-old Whiteside standing on the path. As
A.B. ran past Whiteside, he grabbed her from behind and placed his arm
around her neck. They fell to the ground. Whiteside removed his pants and ... More...   $0 (04-04-2017 - IN)

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration and
stay proceedings filed by appellant Santander Consumer USA, Inc. The trial court granted the
motion as to appellee Mario A. Mata and denied it as to the remaining appellees, Centroplex
Automobile Recovery, Inc.; Blake Thornton Vandusen; John F. Thompson d/b/a Centroplex
Automobile Recovery, Inc.; ... More...   $0 (03-29-2017 - TX)

This case involves a dispute over the termination of plaintiff-appellant Artis
Harrell’s lease of a hair-salon workstation. The trial court granted summary
judgment on Harrell’s claims, concluding they were limitations barred. We affirm.
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PREVIOUS LAWSUIT
In 2006, Harrell sued the two defendant-appellees in this suit, i.e., S.P. Dairy
Ashford d/b/a Salon Pa... More...   $0 (03-29-2017 - )

Plaintiff/appellee GeoSteering LLC sued defendant/appellant Sergey Efremov seeking a temporary restraining order, a temporary injunction, a permanent injunction, and damages. The trial court entered a temporary injunction in GeoSteering’s favor, and Efremov brought this interlocutory appeal.
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BACKGROUND
The service of “geosteering” involves monitoring drilling operations using real-ti... More...   $0 (03-15-2017 - TX)

What started out as a landlord-tenant dispute has become a
lawsuit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Mariah Wall,
Christopher Boston, and Craig Mulhinch allege that Zaki Jamil Alawi and his companies
committed federal wire, mail, and bank fraud by mishandling the security deposits the plaintiffs
provided for their rental units. Because the plainti... More...   $0 (03-13-2017 - MI)

Radha Geismann, M.D., P.C., appeals from a judgment of the United States
20 District Court for the Southern District of New York (Louis L. Stanton, Judge)
21 dismissing its putative class action suit against ZocDoc, Inc., alleging violations
22 of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The district court concluded that a
23 settlement offer, made by ZocDoc but rejected by Geismann,... More...   $0 (03-09-2017 - NY)

John Earley, Jr. was the named insured on an aircraft insurance contract (the
Policy) with U.S. Specialty Insurance Company (U.S. Specialty). Earley and Michael
Schlarb died during an instructional flight when an aircraft listed in the Policy crashed
shortly after takeoff. U.S. Specialty sought a declaratory judgment that the Policy doesn’t
cover any potential claims arising from t... More...   $0 (03-05-2017 - CO)

Josephine Douglas-Peters1 appeals the trial court’s final judgment in favor of Forest Law, P.C. d/b/a Cho, Choe & Holen, P.C.,2 as assignee of Choe, Holen, Yoo & Burchfiel, P.C.,3 on its claim against Douglas-Peters for breach of a legal representation retainer agreement and awarding it $90,453.21 in damages. Douglas-Peters raises four issues on appeal, arguing: (1) the evidence is legally and fac... More...   $0 (03-03-2017 - TX)

Bismarck, ND - Solen North Dakota Man Sentenced for Theft of Farm Service Agency

Brandon Adam Leingang, 33, Solen, ND., was sentenced before Chief US District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve two (2) years of supervised release. Judge Hovland also ordered that Leingang pay restitution to be determined in 60 days, a $1000 fine, and a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim’s Fund. Lein... More...   $0 (03-01-2017 - ND)

This appeal originates from a lawsuit filed by Plaintiff/Appellant John Doe (a pseudonym for Plaintiff) (hereinafter, "Appellant") against Defendants/Appellees The First Presbyterian Church of U.S.A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and James D. Miller (hereinafter, "Appellees") alleging breach of contract, negligence, and outrage. Appellant alleges he was born in Syria into the Muslim Faith, but for most of h... More...   $0 (02-27-2017 - OK)

Leigh Murphy d/b/a Murphy Cattle Company appeals from the Bankruptcy
Court’s2 Orders holding that Sweetwater Cattle Company, L.L.C.’s lien in certain
cattle is superior to Murphy’s rights as an unpaid seller of the cattle. For the
reasons that follow, we AFFIRM.
INTRODUCTION
This is a dispute over the validity and priority of interests in cattle. To
summarize, Leigh Murphy ... More...   $0 (02-27-2017 - NE)

Appellant Deborah Logsdon appeals from the trial court’s summary
judgment granted in favor of appellee Mark E. Logsdon. Because we conclude
the trial court did not err, we affirm the trial court’s judgment. See Tex. R. App.
P. 43.2(a).
1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
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I. BACKGROUND
A. DIVORCE AND LIQUIDATION OF ASSETS BY AUCTION
Deborah and Mark married in 1984 and join... More...   $0 (02-16-2017 - TX)

In August 2014, Price was living with his girlfriend and their three-year-old
daughter D.A. in Indianapolis. Four-year-old D.J., Price’s son from another
relationship, had been staying at Price’s home for a couple months. Because
Price was serving home detention for a previous offense, he often cared for
D.A. and D.J. while his girlfriend worked.
[3] On August 23, 2014,... More...   $0 (02-16-2017 - IN)

Jones asserts his fifty-year sentence is inappropriate. We may revise a sentence
if it is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the
offender. Williams v. State, 891 N.E.2d 621, 633 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008) (citing
Ind. Appellate Rule 7(B)). As we conduct our review, we consider not only the
aggravators and mitigators found by the trial court, b... More...   $0 (02-11-2017 - IN)

In this appeal, we consider the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s findings in connection with Joe Cardenas’s request for trial and appellate attorney’s
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fees. We hold that the trial court erred in denying Cardenas’s motion for new trial and in entering judgment on the jury’s zero findings for attorney’s fees incurred in the trial court and for fees conditioned on a success... More...   $0 (01-19-2017 - TX)

On the evening of February 18, 2014, Officer Flaude Dillon (“Dillon”) of the
Logansport Police Department (“LPD”) was speaking with Sabrina Brewer
(“Brewer”) in the lobby of the Cass County jail. Dillon had been summoned to
the jail by the Cass County sheriff, to whom Brewer had earlier reported what
she was then telling Dillon: Brewer had just been to a home on Wabash Avenue <... More...   $0 (01-01-2017 - IN)