On November 27, 2006, Kenneth Ingram3 executed a promissory note (the note) in favor
of Loancity in the amount of $212,500 in order to finance the purchase of property located at 6
Young Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island (the property). Contemporaneously, plaintiffs
executed a mortgage (the mortgage) on the property to secure the note. The mortgage identified
plaintiffs as “... More...   $0 (09-21-2015 - RI)

ADT is a real estate brokerage firm specializing in selling properties in the Cedar Creek Lake area of Henderson County, Texas. On January 23, 2010, it received the following system wide email sent by the marketer Point2 Real Estate:
23-Jan-2010
Prospect Email
You are receiving this email because Mr. Yang Hua Lopez has emailed you from your website.
Email: yanghl@informaticos.comMore...   $0 (09-16-2015 - TX)

Appellant Roger D. Burks was the chief financial officer of Superior
Offshore International, Inc., which had obtained a directors and officers (D&O)
insurance policy from appellee XL Specialty Insurance Company. Superior
Offshore ultimately reorganized through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the plan
agent sought to recover property that the company transferred to Burks and to
avo... More...   $0 (09-15-2015 - TX)

Mill Man Steel fired Kendall Utley on suspicion that he had misappropriated steel from the company. In so doing, Mill Man refused to pay Utley the commissions he claimed to have earned, asserting a right to withhold the commissions as an offset against the value of the allegedly misappropriated steel. Utley filed this suit, claiming that Mill Man had violated the Utah Payment of Wages Act (UPWA). ... More...   $0 (09-14-2015 - UT)

Chevron operates an oil refinery near Salt Lake City. The refinery contains a concrete-lined, open-air pit that is used to process various liquid and solid waste products from the refinery. One of the liquid waste products collected in the pit is mildly acidic steam condensate from the refining process, which continuously flows into the pit. Before the pit is emptied, workers ensure that the pH le... More...   $0 (09-14-2015 - UT)

On August 31, 2010, investors in Central Sleep filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court against the company; Kenneth Dachman, its promoter; Dachman’s wife, Katherine Lynn Dachman; and several others. The suit asserted claims for fraud, RICO violations, conversion, fraudulent conveyance, civil conspiracy, and securities fraud. Dachman was also criminally charged and convicted for his fraudulent cond... More...   $0 (09-13-2015 - IL)

This case has a complex procedural history that the Court of Appeals thoroughly described in its opinion. For the sake of brevity and clarity, we take a condensed version of that history from the opinion of the Court of Appeals and the record. Defendants were in the business of processing
1 Defendants are Greenwood Forest Products, Inc. and two of its principals, Dovenberg and LeFors. For th... More...   $0 (09-11-2015 - OR)

In this legal malpractice case, appellant Joseph Pressil sued appellees Jason
A. Gibson, Clifford D. Peel, II, Andrew C. Smith, and Jason A. Gibson, P.C. d/b/a
The Gibson Law Firm (collectively, the “Gibson Parties”) for negligence, gross
negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty arising from the Gibson Parties’
representation of Pressil in a lawsuit. The trial court granted the Gib... More...   $0 (09-10-2015 - TX)

Two shareholders of a corporation filed suit seeking redress related to a
series of transactions allegedly orchestrated by various parties. The shareholders
claim the transactions diluted their respective stock interests in the corporation.
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All defendants moved to dismiss the claims based on a Delaware forum-selection
clause contained in certain amended and restated versions ... More...   $0 (09-10-2015 - TX)

Pointe West Center, LLC filed suit against its former tenant, It’s Alive, Inc., and the tenant’s guarantor, Shamil Qureshi, for breach of contract. The jury awarded some, but not all, of the claimed damages. The trial court did not award attorneys’ fees to Pointe West. Both sides appealed. In two issues, Pointe West
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argues the trial court erred by denying its motion for judgment notwiths... More...   $0 (09-10-2015 - TX)

This is the second appeal in a dispute among several outdoor advertising companies and the City of Los Angeles over certain billboards with digital displays. In the first appeal, we affirmed the trial court’s finding that a settlement agreement between two of the companies and the City, allowing the companies to digitize many of their existing billboards, was illegal and void, because a municipal ... More...   $0 (09-08-2015 - CA)

Daniel Avila alleges that CitiMortgage,
Inc., violated a fiduciary duty and breached its mortgage
agreement with him by using the payout from his
homeowner’s insurance policy to pay down his loan rather
than repair his damaged house. The district court dismissed
Avila’s suit—a proposed class action—for failure to state a
2 No. 14-1949
claim, reasoning that (1) his alle... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - IL)

In conducting our de novo review, we “must ‘give[] the complaint a reasonable interpretation, and treat[] the demurrer as admitting all material facts properly pleaded.’ [Citation.] Because only factual allegations are considered on demurrer, we must disregard any ‘contentions, deductions or conclusions of fact or law alleged . . . .’” (People ex rel. Gallegos v. Pacific Lumber Co. (2008) 158 C... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - CA)

In November 2012, Washington voters approved I-1240, codified in the Act,
providing for the establishment of up to 40 charter schools within five years. Clerk's
Papers (CP) at 39-78; RCW 28A.710.150(1). The Act was intended to provide parents
with "more options" regarding the schooling of their children. RCW 28A.710.005(1)(f);
see also RCW 28A.710.020(1) (new charter schools ar... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - WA)

Chevron operates an oil refinery near Salt Lake City. The refinery contains a concrete-lined, open-air pit that is used to process various liquid and solid waste products from the refinery. One of the liquid waste products collected in the pit is mildly acidic steam

Cite as: 2015 UT 81 Opinion of the Court

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condensate from the refining process, which continuously f... More...   $0 (09-04-2015 - UT)

Tulsa, OK - Lawyer Marketing Services, Inc. sued Brad Post, Chad Stephens, Garron Rose and Movement, Inc. on violation of uniform trade secret act theories claiming:

1. Plaintiff Lawyer Marketing Services, Inc. is a for-profit Corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma with its principal place of business located in Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma.
2. Upon informat... More...   $0 (09-02-2015 - OK)

This is an appeal from a final summary judgment rejecting appellants’ request for a declaratory judgment setting aside a receivership sale under a turnover order in another lawsuit. Tax Debt Acquisition Company, LLC (TDAC) purchased an unpaid judgment against Sun Tec Computer, Inc. from the judgment creditor and filed an application for a turnover order and appointment of a receiver. The receiver ... More...   $0 (08-31-2015 - TX)

In a prior decision issued May 29, 2013, Israel Discount Bank of New York v. First
State Depository Co., LLC,1 I determined the liability of First State Depository Co., LLC
(“FSD”), and Certified Assets Management, Inc. (“CAMI”), to Israel Discount Bank
(“IDB”). That case, which the parties have referred to as the “Related Action,” involved
the mishandling of collateral—rare c... More...   $0 (08-31-2015 - DE)

In a prior decision issued May 29, 2013, Israel Discount Bank of New York v. First
State Depository Co., LLC,1 I determined the liability of First State Depository Co., LLC
(“FSD”), and Certified Assets Management, Inc. (“CAMI”), to Israel Discount Bank
(“IDB”). That case, which the parties have referred to as the “Related Action,” involved
the mishandling of collateral—rare c... More...   $0 (08-31-2015 - DE)

BOSTON, MA – Federal Court Says Long Wharf Pavilion May Not Be Converted into a Restaurant

A federal court in Boston rejected efforts by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) to convert an open-air pavilion on the end of Long Wharf into a restaurant. Siding with the National Park Service (Park Service), the court held that the end of Long Wharf is protected by a federal law requiring ... More...   $0 (08-27-2015 - MA)

Defendants Russell Lee Collins, Eddie Wilburn, and Richard
Brosky appeal from final judgments of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Kentucky in a methamphetamine manufacturing and distribution conspiracy case. Defendant
Collins appeals from the judgment of the district court entered on October 2, 2012, sentencing
him to 324 months of incarceration for viol... More...   $0 (08-24-2015 - KY)

Mill Man Steel fired Kendall Utley on suspicion that he had misappropriated steel from the company. In so doing, Mill Man refused to pay Utley the commissions he claimed to have earned, asserting a right to withhold the commissions as an offset against the value of the allegedly misappropriated steel. Utley filed this suit, claiming that Mill Man had violated the Utah Payment of Wages Act (UPWA). ... More...   $0 (08-22-2015 - UT)

Bryann Kristine Lemmons (Defendant) was found guilty by a jury of two counts of trafficking in methamphetamine by delivering methamphetamine and two counts of trafficking in methamphetamine by conspiring to deliver methamphetamine. The charges arose from two instances in which Defendant, with the assistance of a co-conspirator, agreed to, and then did, deliver methamphetamine to a confidential in... More...   $0 (08-22-2015 - ID)

Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. (the park), is a mobilehome park in the City of Carson (City). It consists of 420 rental spaces on 70 acres of land, 17 acres of which are federally and state regulated wetlands and which is the only open space area within the City. In 2007 the City rejected the park’s application to convert from rental spaces to a subdivision of individually owned lots. The pr... More...   $0 (08-21-2015 - CA)

According to appellants, the Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety (OPS) used to be a law enforcement agency separate from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD). In 2010, the County decided to merge OPS into LASD. Apparently, OPS officers who wanted to work for LASD were required to complete application forms for LASD. LASD hired former OPS officers to work as deputy sheriffs.... More...   $0 (08-20-2015 - CA)