Evidence adduced at trial revealed that in the spring of 2009, Evans moved into
Holling’s home as her tenant. The two previously had been romantically involved, but that
relationship had ceased before Evans moved in with seventy-year-old Holling. On the
morning of January 2, 2010, fifty-two-year-old Evans and his friend, Joe Thomas, were on
the way to perform a carpet-cleaning job

Iowa State University (ISU) grants student organizations permission to use its
trademarks if certain conditions are met. The ISU student chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML ISU) had several of its
trademark licensing requests denied because its designs included a cannabis leaf. Two
members of the student group subsequently filed this 42 U.S.

General Mills Federal Credit Union1 filed an adversary proceeding to determine
the dischargeability of a debt in Michael Hernandez's Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The
bankruptcy court2 found the debt excepted from discharge, the district court3 affirmed,
and we now affirm as well.
I. BACKGROUND
Hernandez's grandparents, Joseph and Stella Hernandez (whom we will refer
to as Joseph a

In Gion v. City of Santa Cruz (1970) 2 Cal.3d 29, this court held that
private owners of certain coastal property who allowed the public to use the
property for recreational purposes over a period of years thereby impliedly
dedicated property rights to the public. In response to that decision, the
Legislature enacted Civil Code section 1009, which limits the circumstances in
wh

Walters, OK - Sharon Kay Wiley, et al. v. James Leslie Zachary, et al.

Issues

1. PARTITION SUIT

2. QUIET TITLE

Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
04-18-2016

FILE AND ENTER PETITION

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Petitioner Ryan Saunders, who worked as a custodial officer in the county jail, was
accused of eight misdemeanor counts of violating Penal Code section 13304, for his alleged
unauthorized access, receipt, or possession of local summary criminal information. The
People alleged by complaint that Saunders had illegally accessed a county criminalinformation
database—CJIC—and passed pro

Brett Williamson was charged with and convicted of various child
pornography offenses. Prior to trial, it came to light that his defense counsel and
the prosecutor trying the case had a history together: they were divorced and
shared custody of their child. For that and numerous other reasons, Williamson
asked for new counsel, his third, but the district court denied his request. H

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

John J. Munzanreder appeals his conviction for the first
degree murder of his wife. Because of the sensational nature of the alleged crime, local
media extensively covered his case from arrest through trial. His principal arguments on
appeal are the trial court abused its discretion when it denied his motion to change venue,
and the voir dire process used by the trial court failed

This is an appeal from a take-nothing final summary judgment rendered in favor of appellee Ellen A. Yarrell on appellant James W. Paulsen’s defamation claims. Paulsen challenges the trial court’s denial of a motion to dismiss, which attempted to invoke the Texas Citizens Participation Act. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. &
2
REM. CODE §§ 27.001–.011. Paulsen also argues that summary judgment was impro

In this case, Bradley Graham, a juvenile offender convicted of one count of sex abuse in the third degree, challenges his lifetime special sentence of parole and the lifetime requirement that he register as a sex offender as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution and under article I, section 17 of the Iowa Constitution. The district court held Gr

Atkinson was convicted of rape, two counts of attempted rape, two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and four counts of contributing to the misconduct of a child. The State charged him with two counts of attempted rape and two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy because Atkinson committed those acts twice, with the same victim, J.B., over a period of

The Wikimedia Foundation and eight other organizations appeal the dismissal of their complaint challenging Upstream surveillance, an electronic surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (the “NSA”). The district court, relying on the discussion of speculative injury from Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), held that the allegations in the complaint wer

At the Petitioner’s trial, the following proof was presented, as summarized by our court in its opinion on the Petitioner’s direct appeal:
This case arises out of the attempted robbery and shooting of the store clerk, Abdallah “Zack” Assaedi, at Sam’s Food Market in Memphis on November 21, 2008, for which the [Petitioner] was charged with one count of first degree felony murder.
State’s Pr

Santa Ana, CA - Defendant Convicted Again For Murder

The People of the State of California charged James Andrew Melton, age 65, with first-degree murder for shooting and strangling Anthony DeSousa, age 77, to death in 1981.

The State claimed that Melton and a Johnny Boyd concocted a scheme while in prison to rob older gay men after they got out of prison by using newspaper ads t

¶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.<

On March 20, 2015, the State charged defendant by bill of information with
one count of failure to register as a sex offender, second offense, in violation of La.
R.S. 15:542. On March 23, 2015, the district court arraigned defendant on this
charge, and defendant entered a plea of not guilty. Following a jury trial, the jury
rendered a unanimous verdict of guilty on March 24,

St. Louis, MO - Jury Awards Plaintiff $110.5 Million In Products Case

Lois Slemp, age 62, sued Johnson & Johnson on a products liability theory claiming that she developed ovarian cancer as a direct result of using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.

Docket Entries:

05/04/2017 Entry of Appearance Filed
Entry of Appearance for defendants Johnson & Johnson and J

Alpine, TX - Former Fort Stockton Teacher Sentenced for Wire Fraud Scheme

A federal judge sentenced George Mariadas Kurusu, a 58-year-old Indian national and a former Fort Stockton Independent School District (FSISD) teacher, to time served (approximately 11 months) and ordered him to pay $53,004.51 restitution for a wire fraud scheme involving the hiring of Indian nationals to teach in t

On March 20, 2015, the State charged defendant by bill of information with
one count of failure to register as a sex offender, second offense, in violation of La.
R.S. 15:542. On March 23, 2015, the district court arraigned defendant on this
charge, and defendant entered a plea of not guilty. Following a jury trial, the jury
rendered a unanimous verdict of guilty on March 24,

Defendant Emmett Andrew Larsen is the father of S.L. and the grandfather of
S.L.’s children, A.H. and K.H. S.L., along with A.H. and K.H., moved to Colorado to
live with Larsen. While in Colorado, K.H. told a therapist that her uncle, T.J., had
sexually abused her. A Department of Human Services (“DHS”) caseworker
interviewed both A.H. and K.H.

¶3 During the interv

A jury convicted the defendant, Sandra L. Jacobson, of vehicular homicide,
driving under the influence, and other related charges arising from a collision between
her truck and a taxi cab. The collision killed two of the passengers in the taxi.
¶3 During the jury selection process, a prospective juror asked the trial court why
the jury has to avoid media coverage of the trial,

On the night of March 21, 2015, NYPD Officers Chris Aybar and Jose 9  
Espinal entered a four‐story, twelve‐unit private apartment building located at 10  
584 East 167th Street in New York Cityʹs Borough of the Bronx, to conduct a 11  
floor‐by‐floor patrol as part of the NYPDʹs ʺClean Hallsʺ program,1 pursuant to 1 2 
which officers ent

From approximately 2010 through 2014, Garden engaged in a series of
fraudulent real estate transactions. In some cases, Garden would offer to sell a
home for an individual, obtain a quitclaim deed for the property, and then enter
into a rent-to-own agreement with a subsequent victim that was contrary to the
authority given to him by the original owner. In other cases, Garden

Petitioner was found guilty by a jury of two counts
of aggravated murder, one count of intentional murder,
and a number of other crimes. He sought post-conviction
relief on a variety of claims. The post-conviction court
denied relief on all of petitioner’s claims involving the guilt
phase of petitioner’s criminal trial but granted relief on
his penalty-phase claims and void