Tulsa, OK - The City of Tulsa sued Steven R. Elliott and others on eminent domain theories seeking to acquire certain rights, title and interests in real property for public use by condemnation.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: CITY OF TULSA OKLAHOMA
Filed Date: 04/20/2017
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF

Tulsa, OK - City of Tulsa v. Larry Wheeler, et al.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: CITY OF TULSA
Filed Date: 08/10/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: ONEOK INC Disposed: DISCLAIMER, 09/16/2016. Other
Defendant: CONOCO PHILLIPS COMPANY Disposed: DISMISSED, 09/20/2016. Other
Defendant: PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY Disposed: DISMI

Because the argument in support of the validity of the stop of Orozco’s tractor-trailer is intertwined with the administrative scheme that Nevada has adopted to regulate commercial motor vehicles, we begin with a discussion of that regulatory scheme. The Nevada Legislature has charged the Nevada Transportation Authority with regulation of motor carriers such as the tractor-trailer driven by Orozc

This case arises from flooding on property belonging to Owen and Sally Brainard
that the City of Rollingwood allegedly caused. The Brainards sued the City for an intentional
constitutional taking. The City filed a plea to the jurisdiction, and the trial court denied the plea.
In its sole appellate issue, the City contends that the trial court erred in denying its plea to the
jurisd

El Reno, OK - Fern R. Zajic and Terry J. Bryce v. Markwest Oklahoma Gas Company, L.L.C.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: ZAJIC, FERN R
Filed Date: 01/08/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: MARKWEST OKLAHOMA GAS COMPANY LLC Disposed: DISMISSED - WITH PREJUDICE, 02/08/2017. Other
Issue # 2. Issue: CROSS CLAIM (OTHER)
Filed By:

The question for this Court, distilled to its essential form, is whether the
Constitution, as the Supreme Court declared in Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2,
120 (1866), remains “a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace.” And if
so, whether it protects Plaintiffs’ right to challenge an Executive Order that in text speaks
with vague words of national security,

After suffering permanent brain damage from a
stroke, plaintiff Joseph Smith brought this medical negligence
action, alleging that, because doctors had not taken
proper steps to follow up on his complaints of stroke symptoms,
he lost a chance for treatment that, in one-third of
cases, provides a patient with no or reduced complications
following the stroke. Reviewing the co

¶1 Defendant/Appellant State of Oklahoma (State) appeals from the trial court's Order granting the petition to seal and expunge records of Plaintiff/Appellee (Petitioner).1 The statute at issue in this case - 22 O.S. § 18 - is remedial or procedural in nature, applies retroactively, and has been amended (in 2016) in a manner that requires we affirm the granting of the petition by the trial court.<

[¶1] Appellants The Tavern, LLC and SALL, LLC sued the town of Alpine, asserting
several claims stemming from Alpine’s financing and construction of a new sewage
treatment facility. Appellants challenged the legality of the indebtedness Alpine incurred
for the project, alleging that the loans exceeded the constitutional and statutory debt
limitations imposed upon municipalities. Th

On September 21, 2011, three men approached Hugh Whitaker, an employee of a cash-intransit service, as he exited a CVS in Washington, D.C. One of the men drew a handgun and demanded the cash Whitaker had just picked up from the CVS. Whitaker drew his own handgun and they exchanged gunfire. Whitaker retreated into the CVS unharmed. The three other men, one of whom had been shot, fled the scene

This appeal arises out of a condemnation action in which Fred Southam and
Southam & Son (collectively Southam) sought to introduce evidence of the value of their
land for an underground natural gas storage project based on reservoir volume. The trial
court‟s in limine ruling excluded Southam‟s valuation approach based on evidence all
independently operated gas storage p

About dusk on September 13, 2012, KBI Special Agent Michael Lind met with a confidential informant to set up a purchase of methamphetamine from Williams. The informant arranged a meeting with Williams during a telephone call in which Williams gave the informant directions to his location. After the call, Lind drove with the informant to meet Williams.

As Lind and the informant reached

The People charged Heather Beauvais with extortion and three counts of stalking in
connection with her repeated attempts to contact a man whom she met on the internet. The
matter proceeded to a jury trial. To begin jury selection, the court seated twenty-five
potential jurors in the jury box and placed the remainder of the venire in the back of the
courtroom in the order that

Guadalupe County appeals the trial court’s order denying the motion for summary judgment Guadalupe County filed asserting governmental immunity. Guadalupe County contends the trial court erred in denying the motion because the evidence established as a matter of law that any damage to the value of the appellees’ property was proximately caused by the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (

Tulsa, OK - The City of Tulsa sued Oklahoma Natural Gas and others on eminent domain theories seeking to acquire by condemnation certain rights, title and interest in private property for a public use.

Issue # 1. Issue: CONDEMNATION (CONDEMN)
Filed By: CITY OF TULSA OKLAHOMA
Filed Date: 10/08/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIO

Caren Ashby was arrested for several drug related offenses after a traffic stop in Wells County on August 26, 2015. Caren Ashby moved to suppress all evidence seized from the traffic stop, and the State opposed the motion. Caren Ashby challenged the validity of the traffic stop and argued all evidence uncovered should be suppressed. The State argued the traffic stop was supported by reasonable sus

¶1 Prior to filing the condemnation proceedings the Appellee, Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT), offered the Appellants, Cedars Group, L.L.C., an Oklahoma limited liability company; Centoma, an Oklahoma limited partnership; A. Sam Coury (Coury); and Bush, Ltd. d/b/a Deer Creek Texaco, (collectively, Coury Defendants), $562,500.00 for the acquisition of certain real property. The offer w

In 2011, state authorities successfully prosecuted and incarcerated Chilinski for
cruelty to animals. Crucial to that prosecution was the Jefferson County Sheriff’s search
of Chilinski’s four parcels of property, including his residence, for evidence relating to
his inhumane treatment of dogs. That search, conducted pursuant to a warrant, revealed
not only an unlawful and cr

Tulsa, OK - The Oklahoma Department of Transportation sued Twenty-First Properties, L.L.C. on an eminent domain theories seeking to acquire by condemnation certain rights, title and interest in property owned by the defendant for public use.

The Commissioners appointed by the Court assessed the damages that Twenty-First Properties would suffer as a result of the taking of its property at

Anchorage, AK - California Man Sentenced for Role in Drug and Money Laundering Conspiracy

Robert Craggs was sentenced to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Craggs pleaded guilty on May 27, 2016, to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and conspiracy to launder money. Craggs’ co-conspirators were previously sentenced.

According to

Ocoee Utility District of Bradley and Polk Counties, Tennessee (“the Utility”) is a utility district that operates a water and sewer system in Bradley and Polk Counties. The Wildwood Company, Inc. (“Wildwood”) is a private fishing club with eleven memberstockholders. For decades, Wildwood owned about 120 acres of land in Bradley County, which included wetlands, a lake, and a nearby freshwater sp

On December 23, 2010, Julie Hynes agreed to babysit her 4-year-old grandson overnight. About 11 p.m., Keenan, the boy's father, unexpectedly came into Hynes' residence. He was acting "bizarre," according to Hynes—speaking nonsensically, slurring his speech, stumbling, and swaying. He also smelled of alcohol. He picked up the sleeping boy and stumbled while carrying him out to his vehicle. It was s

New Jersey has a significant body of statutory and
decisional law protecting employee rights -- protections that
exist whether the employee is a union member or not. Among
those are wage and hour and whistleblower protections. Facts
that can give rise to a violation of those state-law protections
can often (for union workers) also give rise to a claim based on
a col