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Vladek Filler v. Hancock County, et al.

Concluding that a defendant committed the tort of malicious prosecution, the Court awards $1,769,354 in compensatory, economic, and punitive damages in favor of a man the defendant falsely accused of committing gross sexual assaults and assaults against his then wife. The Court's verdict and judgment runs against his now ex-wife's friend, who conspired with his wife to concoct the allegations that

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L.O.K. v. Greater Albany Public School District 8J, et al.

Eugene, Oregon civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

Plaintiff L.O.K. is a twelve-year-old child who is intersex and non-binary. L.O.K. Decl. ¶ 1. ECF No. 34. Plaintiff uses they/them pronouns. L.O.K. Decl. ¶ 1. Plaintiff was a student at Oak Grove Elementary School (“Oak Grove”) beginning in 2015, whic

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Erika Lopez Prater v. Trustees of Hamline University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant claiming to have been wrongfully not hired.

The dispute arises out of the non-renewal of Ms. Lopez Prater's employment contract to teach at Hamline during the Spring of 2023. Hamline hired Ms. Lopez Prater as an Undergraduate Adjunct Instructor to teach a World Art class for the Fall 2022 semester.

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Noah Lebowitz v. Harmoney Nutraceuticals, LLC

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma intellectual property lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a trademark infringement theory under 15 U.S.C. 1114, which provides:

(1) Any person who shall, without the consent of the registrant—
(a) use in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark in connection with the sale, offering for sale

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E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump

New York City, New York personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant for sexual assault and battery .

1. Roughly 27 years ago, playful banter at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in New York City took a dark turn when Defendant Donald J. Trump seized Plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, forced her up against a dressing room wall, pinned her in place wit

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Crosley Alexander Green v. Secretary, Department of Corrections, Attorney General, State of Florida

Tampa, Florida criminal defense appellate lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued the State of Florida seeking a writ of habeas corpus setting aside his conviction for murder, armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury.


The power of the federal courts to grant a writ of habeas corpus setting aside a state prisoner's conviction on a claim that his conviction was obtained in violat

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Jajed Khalil v. Fox Corporation and Lou Dobbs

New York City, New York personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued defendant on a slander theory.


Plaintiff, a Venezuelan businessman, states that the Court has personal jurisdiction over Powell pursuant to CPLR § 302 for five reasons:

(i) Powell made the defamatory and disparaging statements at issue in the Complaint knowing and intending for them to be b

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Oakley Engesser v. Robert Dooley


[¶ 1.] The State appeals the circuit court's grant of Oakley B. Engesser's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This is Engesser's second petition for a writ of habeas corpus in state court. A jury convicted Engesser of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular battery. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. His conviction was affirmed on appeal

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Jocelyne Welch, et al. v. City of Biddeford Police Department, et al.

Portland, Maine civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming violated their federal constitutional substantive due process rights under the state-created danger doctrine.

On December 29, 2012, Alivia Welch, Susan Johnson, and Derrick Thompson called the Biddeford, Maine Police Department and reported that their landlord James Pak, who lived in a house attached t

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Just Between Friends Franchise System, Inc. v. Samone Gibson Enterprises, LLC et al

Tulsa, Oklahoma intellectual property lawyers represented Plaintiff which sued Defendant on a trademark infringement theory.

15 U.S.C. 1114 provides:

(1) Any person who shall, without the consent of the registrant—
(a) use in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distrib

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Eric Carvan v. Allstate Texas Lloyd's

San Antonio, Texas insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a bad faith breach of insuranc e contract theory claiming more than $75,000 in damages.

This case was filed in the 285th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas, 2022CI20784, and was removed to federal court by Defendant.

INSURANCE CODE

TITLE 5. PROTECTION OF CONSUMER INTERESTS
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United States of America v. Zackey Rahimi

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

Federal Courthouse - Dallas, Texas

Federal Courthouse - Dallas, Texas

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State of Minnesota v. Javon Davis

Minneapolis, Minnesota At 2:57 a.m. on April 12, 2014, Kibbie Walker and Cortez Blakemore left Target Field, the home of the Minnesota Twins, in downtown Minneapolis after finishing their shift. Outside the stadium, they were met by three men, all wearing sweatshirts with the hoods pulled up tight around their faces.

One of the three men nodded to another man, who pulled out a revolver an

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State of Minnesota v. James Lamar Davis

At 2:57 a.m. on April 12, 2014, Kibbie Walker and Cortez Blakemore left Target Field, the home of the Minnesota Twins, in downtown Minneapolis after finishing their shift. Outside the stadium, they were met by three men, all wearing sweatshirts with the hoods pulled up tight around their faces.

One of the three men nodded to another man, who pulled out a revolver and shot Walker and Blake

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State of Washington v. Ed Troyer

Tacoma, Washington criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with misdemeanor false statement and making a false
or misleading statement to a public servant relating to his confrontation with a Black newspaper carrier.

"Prosecutors had accused Troyer of lying when he placed a call to an emergency dispatcher shortly after 2 a.m. Jan. 27, 2021, stating four times that newspap

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The People of the State of California v. Joel Alcox

Santa Barbara, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder, Robbery, burglary and unlawful entry.
On the evening of February 16, 1986, 49-year-old Thakorbhai Patel, the owner of the Lompoc Motel in Lompoc, California, was shot three times and killed in the motel lobby after walking in on two men who were burglarizing the motel’s untended cash register.

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Laurence Adams

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR POSTCONVICTION RELIEF

         I. INTRODUCTION

         The defendant, Laurence Adams, filed a Renewed And Revised Motion For Postconviction Relief. Related discovery motions,

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John Joseph Roman and David Wayne Woodruff v. Gary Gibson

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with capital murder.

¶2 Romano and Woodruff were convicted of killing a jeweler, Roger Sarfaty, during the course of a robbery. Sarfaty, Romano's acquaintance, had been bound hand and foot and strangled, beaten about the head and stabbed five times. Because, at the time of this murder, Romano was serving a prison

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United States of America v. Tasmin Jamal Stewart

Dallas, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful possession and distribution of drugs.

It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally—

(1) who is a registrant to distribute a controlled substance classified in schedule I or II, in the course of his legitimate business, except pursuant to an order or an order form as required by

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CATHERINE ROLL, et al. v. LAURA HOWARD, et al.

Topeka, Kansas – Disability lawyer represented Appellant with seeking to relocate to a community based treatment center.




A case is moot when it is clearly and convincingly shown the actual controversy
has ended, the only judgment that could be entered would be ineffectual for any purpose,
and it would not

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Tavion Miley v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree manslaughter.


Tavion Miley has directly appealed from the judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court finding him guilty of first-degree manslaughter and first-degree robbery, and sentencing him to 18 years' imprisonment. On appeal, Miley challenges the orders denying his motion to suppress state

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Priscilla Villarreal v. The City of Laredo, Texas, et al.

Laredo, Texas civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants claiming that they violated her First Amendment Rights.

If the First Amendment means anything, it surely means that a citizen
journalist has the right to ask a public official a question, without fear of being
imprisoned. Yet that is exactly what happened here: Priscilla Villarreal was
put in jail fo

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John Doe v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield

Springfield, Massachusetts personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a corporate negligence theory.


The plaintiff brought suit against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield, a corporation sole (Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield), and church officials for the sexual abuse by church leadership that he allegedly endured as a child in the 1960s and for the

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James E. Alexander Sr. v. Patsy Phillips Musgrove

Jackson, MS - Real Estate lawyer represented Appellee with filing a
lawsuit seeking to have a tax deed declared void.



¶1. This case involves real property in Lawrence County, Mississippi, that Patsy Joan
Phillips acquired in 1982 through a deed from Lib and Sue Vanderford. Lib Va

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McLAEN v. WHITE TOWNSHIP

Pierre, SD - Appellate lawyer represented Appellants with appealing
denial of their requested drainage project.



Steven McLaen owns agricultural property in White Township within
Marshall County, South Dakota. He farms the property with his son Matthew
McLaen. In 2014, the McLaens req

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