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The People of the State of California v. E.L.


San Bernardino, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault with a deadly weapon.



Defendant was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)) but found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was committed to Patton State Hospital, but later transferred to Sylmar Health and Rehabilitation Center (Sylmar), with a term

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The People of the State of California v. Amadeo Vargas


Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with discharging a firearm.



In February 2023, an anonymous caller tipped off the police that Amadeo Vargas had been discharging a firearm in and around his family home. The police arrested Vargas shortly thereafter.

At Vargas's first court appearance, his attorney declare

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United States of America v. Stephanie Collins

Lexington, KY criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Healthcare Fraud

Former Eastern Kentucky Pharamacist Sentenced for Healthcare Fraud



A Corbin, Ky., woman and former pharmacist, Stephanie Collins, 57, has b

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United States of America v. Zeinab Makki

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Scheme to Bill Insurance for Medications Not Dispensed

Pharmacy Owner Sentenced for Role in $6.9 Million Scheme to Bill Insurance for Medications Not Dispensed

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Mayfe Patino v. Nestora Alejandro Sanchez


Sioux City, Iowa family law lawyers represented husband and wife in a divorce involving child support.




As part of a custodial decree from December 2021, Nestor Sanchez was ordered to pay child support and provide a health benefit plan for his child with Mayfe Patino.[1] Just over two years later, in January 2023, Patino asked child support services[2] to review San

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The State of Oklahoma v. Kelly Burtrum


Enid, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree manslaughter.




¶1 Appellee Kelly Burtrum was charged by Amended Information with First Degree Manslaughter, in violation of 21 O.S.2011, § 711(1), in the District Court of Garfield County, Case No. CF-2020-385. Burtrum was bound over at preliminary hearing held on September

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United States of America v. Ivor Jallah

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant Ivor Jallah charged with $41 Million Health Insurance Fraud

Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison in $41 Million Health Insurance Fraud



A Dallas pharmacy owner w

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Wendy C. Coram, et al. v. Jimmy C. Brasfield, M.D., et al.


Blountville, Tennessee personal injury medical malpractice lawyer represented the Plaintiffs.




On October 21, 2020, Jimmy C. Brasfield ("Dr. Brasfield") of American Physician Partners at Bristol Regional Medical Center ("Bristol Regional") performed back surgery on Wendy Coram. According to her complaint, Mrs. Coram complained to Dr. Brasfield about pain, weakness,

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United States of America v. Ivor Jallah


Dallas, Texas conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.


Ivor Jallah, 37, was indicted in November 2020 and pleaded guilty in June 2024 to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.

“By billing for prescription medication patients never needed nor received, these defendants brazenly lined their pockets at the expense of e

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Edward Ivan Peters, et al. v. Lisa Woods


Bentonville, Arkansas probate lawyers represented Plaintiff and defendants in a breach of fiduciary duty case.




Zoran, a settlor and trustee of the Peters Trust was alive but living in Florida-where Ed and Jennifer live and where Jennifer incorporated JASP Real Estate LLC. Zoran filed a trust-related suit against Lisa, who had been-and would contend she still was-hi

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Leda Health Corporation v. Jay Robert Inslee


Seattle, Washington civil litigation lawyer sought a preliminary injunction against the Defendant.



Leda Health is a company known for developing Early Evidence Kits (“EEKs”)- products that allegedly enable sexual assault survivors to “self-collect and store evidence such as DNA” if they are unable or unwilling to seek a traditional forensic medical examination. (

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State of Vermont v. Randy Jacobs, Jr.


Newfane, Vermont kidnapping and domestic assault criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.



¶ 2. A five-count information charged defendant with one count of kidnapping, one count of aggravated domestic assault, and three counts of domestic assault.[1] For the kidnapping charge, the information alleged that defendant knowingly restrained another person with the

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State of Oklahoma v. Rayvonna Renard Walter

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery in violation of 21 O.S. 644, which provides:

A. Assault shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

B. Assault and battery shall be punishab

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State of Oklahoma v. Rodney Shane Smith

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with dumping trash on public / private property in violation of 21 O.S. 1761.1.

A. Any person who deliberately places, throws, drops, dumps, deposits, or discards any garbage, trash, waste, rubbish, refuse, debris, or other deleterious substance on any public property, on any private property of another without con

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State of Oklahoma v. K.N.B.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated DUI.

A. It is unlawful and punishable as provided in this section for any person to drive, operate, or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle within this state, whether upon public roads, highways, streets, turnpikes, other public places or upon any private road, street, alley or lane whi

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Samantha Jolley v. Riverwoods Behavioral Health, L.L.C.


Atlanta, Georgia job discrimination civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff.


A transgender woman alleged that a behavioral health-care facility discriminated against her in
violation of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

Jolley was admitted to the defendant’s Lakeview Behavioral Health Hospital on Feb. 14, 2019, after telling her psychiatrist that

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State of Oklahoma v. D.W.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violation of a protective order in violation of 22 O.S. 6:



A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, any person who:

1. Has been served with an emergency temporary, ex parte or final protective order or foreign protective order and is in violation of such protective order, upon convi

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State of Oklahoma v. R.D.J.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violation of a protective order in violation of 22 O.S. 60.6.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, any person who:

1. Has been served with an emergency temporary, ex parte or final protective order or foreign protective order and is in violation of such protective order, upon conviction, shall

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Harold Dombrowski v. Wilson


Jacksonville, Florida prisoner civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff.



Section 1983 of the United States Code protects individuals from the deprivation of their rights, privileges, or immunities by a person acting under color of state law. Prisoners can use this law to sue state correctional officials in federal court if the conditions of their confinement violat

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Fowziya Weheliye v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Service


Portland, Maine immigration lawyer represented the Plaintiff.


1. Plaintiff Fowziya Weheliye (“Ms. Weheliye”), who came to the United States as a
refugee fleeing violence and persecution in Somalia, files this lawsuit seeking a final decision on
her family reunification application to allow her husband to join her and their four children in the
United States a

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Marilyn Martyn v. Rossell Nevins, M.D., et al.


Las Vegas, Nevada personal injury medical malpractice lawyers represented the Plaintiff.




In 2009, Dr. Russell Nevins performed a revision right total shoulder arthroplasty on Marilyn Martyn. During this shoulder replacement surgery, Martyn suffered a fracture to her distal humerus. Nevins attempted to cement the fracture, but the cement extravasated through the fra

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Lora Russell v. University of Kentucky Medical Center d/b/a UK Healthcare, et al.


Lexington, Kentucky medical malpractice personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff.



This matter concerns medical care Russell received at UK Healthcare, beginning when she was diagnosed with a carcinoid tumor on her lung in April 2019. Record ("R.") Vol. I at 7-17. Her care was directed by Dr. Aman Chauhan, an oncologist employed by the University of Kentucky. Id

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James Morrison v. United States et al.


Billings, Montana lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on medical malpractice theory.



Morrison's claims relate to medical treatment he did or did not receive in November, 2021 and associated events. Morrison sought treatment at the Indian Health Services. (Doc 5 at 2.) He was then transferred to Billings Clinic, who then treated him improperly. (Doc. 5 at 3.) He wa

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In re Marriage of Kathy Bremer and James Bremer


Wheaton, Illinois family law lawyers represented the husband and wife in a divorce.



¶ 4 The parties were married in July 1995. They began living separate and apart in November 2002. Kathy filed a verified petition for legal separation in Kane County in September 2003 (case No. 03-DK-1263). James failed to appear and was found in default. The court entered a judgment of

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Lisa Bentley and Gerald Bently v. Scarlett Etherton and Tasha Bentley


Shepherdsville, Kentucky family law lawyers husband and wife in a divorce case involving child custody.



On December 10, 2017, Tasha Bentley (Mother) shot and killed Gary Wayne Bentley (Father), and eventually pleaded guilty to murder. At the core of this case is their sole minor child (Child). Before Mother was taken into custody, she executed a medical power of attorne

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