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.

Insulate SB, Inc., a purchaser of fast-set spray foam equipment (FSE), filed this
antitrust class action alleging FSE manufacturer Graco Inc. and its subsidiary Graco
Minnesota Inc. (Graco) and a number of FSE distributors (Distributors) (collectively,
appellees) conspired to restrain trade in violation of federal antitrust law, see 15
U.S.C. § 1, et seq., and numerous state antitr

Detroit Free Press v. United States Department of Justice, 73 F.3d 93
(1996) (Free Press I), held that the Freedom of Information Act requires government agencies to
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honor requests for the booking photographs of criminal defendants who have appeared in court
during ongoing proceedings. Despite that holding, the United States Ma

In an effort to foreclose on real property in Las Vegas that was
used to secure a debt by appellant JED Property, LLC, respondent
Coastline RE Holdings NV Corp. or its trustee recorded a notice of a
trustee's sale. The trustee's sale was orally postponed three times before
the property was sold, with the sale occurring on the date and at the place
set by the third oral pos

On June 2, 2011, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the Act into law. The
Act created Fla. Stat. § 790.338, entitled “Medical privacy concerning firearms;
prohibitions; penalties; exceptions,” and amended the Florida Patient’s Bill of
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Rights and Responsibilities, Fla. Stat. § 381.026, to include several of the

13 Defendants Javier Velez and James Lukeson, officers in the New York City Police
14 Department ("NYPD"), and defendant Gary Calhoun, an NYPD sergeant, appeal from a judgment
15 entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York following a jury trial
16 before Jack B. Weinstein, Judge, ordering Velez and Lukeson each to pay plaintiff Leroy Davis
17 $

Azeb Ruder appeals from the trial court’s order denying her motion to dismiss filed pursuant to Chapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code, commonly referred to as the Texas Citizens’ Participation Act (“TCPA”). See generally TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. §§ 27.001–.011 (West 2015). In her first two issues, Ruder contends the trial court erred in denying her motion to dismiss app

Miami, FL - Eleventh Circuit holds that Florida may prohibit doctors from asking patients about gun ownership

The Governor of the State of Florida, other Florida officials, and members of the Board of Medicine of the Florida Department of Health (collectively, the “State”), appeal from the District Court’s grant of summary judgment and an
injunction in favor of a group of physicia

New Orleans, LA - Fifth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part conviction of former New Orleans police office

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Henry Glover, a civilian, died after an encounter with a New Orleans police officer that left his severely wounded body in a car owned by William Tanner. After Glover died, another officer, Gregory McRae, with the corpse in the car, se

Defendant Jeffrey Zander was convicted of two counts of mail fraud, two counts of
wire fraud, one count of money laundering, and three counts of willful failure to file
federal tax returns. He was sentenced to sixty-eight months of imprisonment and ordered
to pay $202,543.92 in restitution to the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the main victim of his
fraud. On appeal, he challenges

On November 3, 2009, Appellant was elected the seventy-first Governor of Virginia. From the outset, he made economic development and the promotion of Virginia businesses priorities of his administration. The economic downturn preceding the election had taken a personal toll on Appellant. Mobo Real Estate Partners LLC (“Mobo”), a business operated by Appellant and his sister, was losing money on

Appellant Stephanie Ilene Lazarus, a 25-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), was charged and convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of Sheri Rasmussen, the wife of appellant’s former lover, John Ruetten. The 1986 crime was not solved until 2009, when a DNA profile obtained from a bite mark on Rasmussen’s arm was matched to appellant. At trial, the prosecution

Sharif Shaheed was shot and killed in the
aftermath of an argument between two groups of friends outside a
Lowell pub. The defendant, charged with Shaheed's murder,
posited at trial that a third party had been the shooter. A
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Superior Court jury returned a conviction of murder in the first
degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation. The defendant
filed a

The City of Dallas brings an interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s order denying its plea to the jurisdiction in the suit brought by D.R. Horton – Texas, Ltd. seeking disannexation from the City. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a)(8) (West 2015). The City brings six issues contending the trial court erred by denying the plea to the jurisdiction. We affirm the trial court’s order deny

Stevon Anzaldua worked for the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection
District (“Fire District”) as a full-time paramedic and firefighter. After the Fire
District suspended Anzaldua for purportedly failing to respond to a directive issued
by Chief Kenneth Farwell, Anzaldua emailed a newspaper reporter expressing
concerns about the Fire District and about Chief Farwell in particula

Over the course of five weeks of trial, federal prosecutors sought to prove that former Governor of Virginia Robert F. McDonnell (“Appellant”) and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, accepted money and lavish gifts in exchange for efforts to assist a Virginia company in securing state university testing of a dietary supplement the company had developed. The jury found Appellant guilty of eleven counts of

Wayne C. Doty, who at the time of the crime was an inmate at Florida State
Prison, confessed to murdering fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez and later pled
guilty to the crime. By a vote of ten to two, the jury recommended that Doty be
sentenced to death, and the trial court imposed a death sentence after carefully
weighing the aggravating circumstances against the mitigating circ

Appellee Julio Cesar Ahumada brought a personal injury action against appellant the City of Brownsville (the City) for damages arising out of a traffic accident that occurred on December 3, 2008, in which a Brownsville city bus struck Ahumada. The trial court granted judgment on a jury verdict awarding Ahumada $218,982.44 in damages. The
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City raises six issues on appeal which we address

The children of the Tucson Unified School District
(“TUSD”), a majority of whom are of Mexican or other
Hispanic descent, have a natural interest in knowing more
about their cultural heritage and that of their community—or
so the school board of Tucson decided, inaugurating a
Mexican American Studies (“MAS”) program in the Tucson
public schools. Arizona state superintendent

This case presents an issue of first impression: In fulfilling its federal constitutional duty to disclose exculpatory evidence to a criminal defendant under Brady
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v. Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. 83 (Brady), is the prosecution entitled to direct access to peace officer personnel files? In this consolidated writ proceeding, petitioners the San Francisco District Attorney and the San Francisco

The defendants in this case—George Cavallo, his wife Paula Hornberger,
and Joel Streinz—were players in one of the most long-lasting mortgage fraud
conspiracies in the history of central Florida. From approximately October 1997
through March 2008, these three defendants, along with about a dozen other
people, conspired to solicit and assist friends, family members, and business

A jury found that the defendant, the
Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, acted
negligently and recklessly when it assigned Father Ivan
Ferguson, an alcoholic whose admitted acts of child
molestation were understood to be linked to his drinking,
to serve as the director of Saint Mary’s Elementary
School in Derby (Saint Mary’s School), where he sexually
abus

This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court clearly erred when it found that a physician’s name had acquired “secondary meaning,� Tana v. Dantanna’s, 611 F.3d 767, 774 (11th Cir. 2010) (internal quotation marks omitted). Dr. Paul B. Tartell and Dr. Lee M. Mandel jointly practiced medicine in South Florida until 2011. After they split their practices, Dr. Mandel registered

Placed in removal proceedings
after his arrest on state charges, Michael Jonathan Mazariegos
sought to forestall his removal based on his marriage to a United
States citizen and the hardship his removal would cause his family.
He prevailed before an immigration judge (IJ), but lost when the
government appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA).
Mazariegos did not se

28 On September 11, 2001, “19 Arab Muslim hijackers who counted
29 themselves members in good standing of al Qaeda� hijacked four airplanes and
30 killed over 3,000 people on American soil.  Ashcroft v. Iqbal (Iqbal), 556 U.S. 662,
31 682 (2009).  This case raises a difficult and delicate set of legal issues concerning
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1 individuals who were caught up in the post�9/