Gardner Oil, Inc., appeals the trial court’s judgment entered in favor of Appellee Alvaro Chavez related to personal injuries Chavez sustained as a result of a fire. Gardner Oil raises seven issues on appeal. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Carl Rogers Logging (CRL) is a logging company. CRL purchased its entire supply of off road diesel fuel from Gardner Oil. On January 10, 2008, Gardner Oi

For over two decades, homeowners at Sumner Hill, an isolated subdivision on bluffs overlooking the San Joaquin River, experienced the privacy of living in a remote, rural location within the confines of a security gate. They also enjoyed unrestricted access to the San Joaquin River on a dirt road within the subdivision known as Killkelly Road. Because Killkelly Road was inside the gated residentia

[¶1] The Town of Jackson applied to the district court for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) against Operation Save America (OSA), an anti-abortion protest group. The Town sought to restrict OSA’s demonstration activities in and around the Jackson Town Square during the Boy Scouts’ 2011 annual Elk Fest. The district court granted the ex parte TRO, which enjoined OSA “from assemb

Killam Ranch Properties Motion for En Banc Reconsideration is granted. We withdraw our May 11, 2011 opinion and judgment and issue this opinion and judgment in its place.

This appeal arises from Killam Ranch Properties, Ltd.’s (“Killam”) claim that Webb County violated the Texas Local Government Code and the Texas Open Meetings Act when it sold county-owned acreage and easements to Kh

In this appeal, we consider whether the Circuit Court of the City of Williamsburg and James City County erred when it: (1) refused to set aside the jury's verdict against Verbena Askew ("Askew"); and (2) refused to apply Code § 8.01-35.1 to reduce the amount of the judgment.

In 2004, Brenda Collins filed a motion for judgment against Verbena Askew, a former circuit court judge, The Daily P

Laenise Arnett suffers from a number of medical problems, including peripheral vascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, osteoarthritis, obesity, vascular dementia, depression, panic disorder, and anxiety. As a result, she sought Disability Insurance Benefits (“DIB”) from the Social Security Administration (“SSA”), but she was unsuccessful before the agency. After the Appeal

Paul D. and Shelley Z. Srygley, Appellants, appeal the final summary judgment entered against them in a quiet-title action involving a condominium unit in Bay County, Florida. Capital Plaza, Inc., Appellee, initiated the action, claiming that it is the rightful owner of the unit pursuant to a tax deed it obtained through the tax deed sale process set forth in sections 197.512, 197.522, and 197.542

Former Real County constable Bethel Standley, appellant, sued the county judge, W.B. Sansom, and other county officials, (hereinafter referred to as “the county,”) for trespass to try title to the office of constable, and for salary and benefits of the office of constable. Standley also sued for violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act. A jury found Standley had automatically resigned from th

Appellant, 8100 North Freeway, Ltd. (“8100”), appeals from the trial court’s granting of a permanent injunction enjoining 8100 from operating an adult arcade without a permit. Finding no error, we affirm.

I. THE ADULT ARCADE REGULATIONS

Chapter 243 of the Texas Local Government Code authorizes municipalities such as the City of Houston (“Houston”) to regulate sexually-orien

Rick Bjorklund brought this civil rights suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against four public officials associated with his former employer, the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority (“TCPFA”). In his complaint, he charged that the officials had terminated his employment and deprived him of a liberty interest in his reputation and good name without affording him due process of law. The de

We are asked in this appeal to determine whether Lori Wigod has stated claims under Illinois law against her home mortgage servicer for refusing to modify her loan pursuant to the federal Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP). The U.S. Department of the Treasury implemented HAMP to help homeowners avoid foreclosure amidst the sharp decline in the nation’s housing market in 2008. In 2009, Wells

Defendant Trancos, Inc. (Trancos) appeals from a judgment awarding statutory damages and attorney fees to plaintiff Daniel Balsam under Business and Professions Code1 section 17529 et seq. (Anti-spam Law). Balsam cross-appeals from portions of the judgment denying him relief under the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Civil Code section 1750 et seq. (CLRA), and finding Trancos‘s chief executive offi

15 James and Janet Baker appeal from Judge Jones’s quashing of
16 a subpoena directed to Jesse Eisinger, a former Wall Street
17 Journal (“WSJ”) reporter. Her decision was based on New York’s
18 journalists’ Shield Law, New York Civil Rights Law § 79-h. We
19 affirm.
20 New York's Shield Law provides journalists an absolute
21 privilege from testifying with regar

Plaintiff-Appellant Laura Leigh, a photojournalist, contends that viewing restrictions at a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) horse roundup violated her First Amendment right to observe government activities. Leigh moved for a preliminary injunction to require the BLM to provide her with unrestricted access to horse roundups. The district court denied Leigh’s motion, concluding that most of the re

A recent Google search for ―youth sports‖ showed 379,000,000 results. ―Safety in youth sports,‖ 66,800,000. ―Problem parents in youth sports,‖ 21,600,000. And ―problem coaches in youth sports,‖ 108,000,000. Subjects of tremendous interest.

Plaintiff Lawrence Hecimovich, by profession an attorney, was in 2008-2009 the volunteer basketball coach of a fourth grade basketball te

In 2007, in the wake of the massacre at Virginia Tech, Ronald Zaccari, the President of Valdosta State University at the time, “administratively withdrew” (expelled) Thomas Hayden Barnes, a student, on the ground that Barnes presented a “clear and present danger” to the campus. Barnes sued Zaccari in federal court, claiming that under the Due Process Clause he was due notice of the charges

We withdraw our former opinion and judgment dated December 22, 2011, and substitute this opinion and judgment therefor. The City of New Braunfels’s motion for rehearing is denied.

This appeal stems out of two summary judgment orders entered in favor of appellees. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.

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Ms. Alicia Kuykendall appeals the district court’s judgment affirming the San Antonio Dangerous Structure Determination Board’s decision ordering two buildings to be demolished. She raises three issues for this Court’s review. Issues One and Three challenge the notice procedures related to the condemnation proceedings on due process grounds. In Issue Two, Ms. Kuykendall asserts that the d

The municipality of Englewood, Ohio, passed an ordinance banning all door-to-door canvassing and soliciting between 6 P.M. and 9 A.M. Ohio Citizen Action challenged this curfew and other provisions of the ordinance on First Amendment grounds. The district court upheld the curfew, but found other portions of the ordinance unconstitutional. We AFFIRM in part and REVERSE in part.

I. BACKGROUND

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a motion to intervene as of right, FED. R. CIV. P. 24(a )(2), brought by citizens of Houston, Texas in regard to litigation between the City and the contractor hired to run a red light camera system that generated millions of dollars annually to the City and the contractor. Because the district court erred in denying intervention, we reverse that

In its graduate-level counseling-degree program, Eastern Michigan University prohibits students from discriminating against others based on sexual orientation and teaches students to affirm a client’s values during counseling sessions. In three years with the program, Julea Ward frequently expressed a conviction that her faith (Christianity) prevented her from affirming a client’s same-sex rel

�1 Appellant Gilbert Ray Postelle was tried by jury and convicted in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CF-2005-4759, of four counts of First Degree Murder (Counts 1-4), in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2004, � 701.7, and one count of Conspiracy to Commit a Felony (Count 5), in violation of 21 O.S.2001 � 421.1 The jury imposed the death penalty on Counts 1 and 4 after finding that Po

The district court granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the State of Washington from enforcing its limitation on contributions to political committees supporting the recall of a state or county official. We conclude that the plaintiffs satisfied their burden under Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7 (2008), to demonstrate that the contribution limit is likely an u

¶ 1 Plaintiffs, Ross E. McNeil and Leslie K. McNeil, and one of the defendants, Milorad P. Ketchens, had a dispute over who owned a narrow triangle-shaped piece of the driveway at 609 West Stoughton Street in Urbana. In McNeil v. Ketchens, 397 Ill. App. 3d 375, 395 (2010), we resolved the dispute by holding that although the McNeils had not acquired this sliver of land by deed, they had acquired

This case concerns Appellants Ismael Chavez and Dolores Mercado (collectively Chavez) and their appeal of the district court’s granting of their petition for judicial review, claiming that the original complaint should not have been converted into a petition for judicial review. Chavez also appeals the district court’s finding that the motion for contempt for Canyon County’s untimely complia