The jury heard the following evidence. The defendant was charged with sexually assaulting the victim on multiple occasions between August 1988 and August 1990 when she was under the age of thirteen. At the time of the alleged assaults, the defendant’s family and the victim’s family lived in the same apartment building. Detective Fiske testified that she contacted the victim in 2014 after lear

The record shows on October 27, 2015, Verdina Crichlow was shot to
death in her Shreveport apartment. Tammy Harris and Tranautica Webb
were also wounded in the shooting. During the police investigation,
defendant was identified as the shooter. According to witnesses, when the
shooting occurred, defendant was angry because his money, which he had
given to Jamar Watkins t

The 14-year-old female victim knew the married, adult male defendant from church, where he attended a Sunday school class taught by one of her grandparents. On February 22, 2016, the victim had her iPad with her in gym class when the following message from the defendant appeared on the screen: So you would let me fuck you while on your period and then you would suck your period blood off o

Minnieweather was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of attempted second degree murder, in violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1 and La. R.S. 14:27. The indictment shows that Minnieweather was charged with attempting to kill Sherquarius Moore and Kenneth Brown on March 13, 2016. After the original indictments were made, Kenneth Brown died from the injuries sustained during the shooting. Minni

Xlear, Inc. and Focus Nutrition, LLC are both in the business of selling
sweeteners that use the sugar alcohol xylitol. Xlear filed a complaint raising a trade
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dress infringement claim under the Lanham Act, a claim under the Utah Truth in
Advertising Act (UTIAA), and a claim under the common law for unfair competition.
The claims all alleged that Focus Nutrition copied the pa

Civil Code section 3531 provides that “[t]he law never requires
impossibilities.” In this case, plaintiff National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.
(NSSF) argues that this provision authorizes a court to declare another statute,
Penal Code section 31910, subdivision (b)(7)(A), unenforceable when a
complainant alleges, and the court finds, that complying with the statute is
impo

The novel federal question in this appeal is whether lists
of names with addresses are copyrightable when they are the
product of a sophisticated process to ensure accuracy and
utility. In other words, whether such lists are more like a
telephone book, that the Supreme Court has held lacks any
creative spark, or more like Joyce’s Ulysses that changed the
course of 20th cent

This case is about the legality of a military officer serving as a judge on both an Air Force appeals court and theCourt of Military Commission Review (CMCR). The petitioner, an airman convicted of crimes in the military justice system, contends that the judge’s holding of dual offices violated a statute regulating military service, aswell as the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. The Court of Ap

This appeal requires us to decide whether the District Court correctly refused to enjoin the defendant School District from allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that are consistent with the students’ gender identities as opposed to the sex they were determined to have at birth. The plaintiffs—a group of high school students who identify as being the same sex they were de

At trial, the witnesses presented varying and sometimes conflicting versions of the context that led to this prosecution. We have pared down the factual background to what we deem important for resolution of the issues.

Around 2007, Barlett and Chad Ford formed a rap group called Wicked Wayz. Unable to agree on finances, Barlett and Ford ended their venture in 2010 or 2011. Barlett cont

Kayla Doherty became pregnant
while supposedly protected by a contraceptive implant manufactured
by Merck & Co., Inc. After she gave birth to a healthy child, she
brought this lawsuit against Merck, claiming that the implant
and/or its applicator were defective. She also sued the federal
government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, claiming that her
doctor at a federally-f

Appellant Edwin Cabrera-Rivera
("Cabrera") was charged in a two-count indictment with production
and possession of child pornography. In a deal with the
government, he agreed to plead guilty to the possession count --
an offense with no mandatory minimum sentence -- and the government
agreed to dismiss the production count -- an offense with a
mandatory fifteen-year

The pharmaceutical company Boehringer claimed attorney-client privilege over certain documents subpoenaed by the Federal Trade Commission. The attorney-client privilege applies to a communication between attorney and client if at least “one of the significant purposes” of the communication was to obtain or provide legal advice. In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., 756 F.3d 754, 758 (D.C. Cir. 2014)

This cause came on to be considered upon a notice of appeal, the transcript of
the docket and journal entries, the transcript of proceedings and original papers from the
Butler County Court of Common Pleas, and upon a brief filed by appellant's counsel.
{¶ 2} Counsel for appellant, DeShawn DaJuan Rippey, has filed a brief with this court
pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.

On January 27, 2014, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney filed a bill of
information charging defendant, Christian Hernandez, with armed robbery with a
firearm, in violation of La. R.S. 14:64 and La. R.S. 14:64.3 (count one) and
attempted second degree murder, in violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1 and La. R.S. 14:27
(count two). Defendant was arraigned on January 30, 2014, and p

This case arises from an October 12, 2013, home invasion in Williamson County, Tennessee. The Defendant and a co-defendant entered a residence where the victims, a husband, wife, and two minor sons were present. The Defendant held the victims at gunpoint while the co-defendant searched the housefor valuables. AWilliamson County grand jury returned a fourteen-count indictment against the Defenda

On September 10, 2015, John Drummer, Jr. (Defendant), who was home
alone with his girlfriend’s children, severely beat two-year-old Marcus Deal, Jr.
(Marcus, Jr.)1. Shortly thereafter the child became unresponsive. Defendant took
the victim to the hospital where he died as a result of massive internal injuries
received during the beating. Dr. Christopher Tape, M.D. (Dr. Tape

At first glance, this case appears complicated. It languished for years in the district court as the magistrate judge and district judge held countless hearings and conferences and issued dozens of rulings. All told, this case sprawled over more than 250 docket entries. But a closer look reveals that the core issue boils down to a simple life lesson: play by the rules. This fundamental concept com

This case arises out of a denial of a motion for an award of attorney fees under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), which allows a court to award “reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party” in “exceptional cases.” For the reasons that follow, we hold that a prevailing party need only prove an exceptional case by a preponderance of the evidence, rather than by clear and convincing evidence

In 1999, Appellant married a woman (Mother) with two young daughters,
H.W. and J.W. (collectively, the girls), and a baby boy, and the couple soon had
a son together. Appellant and Mother divorced several years later. In 2014,
J.W., then almost nineteen years old, reported to the girls’ father (Father) and
stepmother (Stepmother) that Appellant had sexually abused her when sh

Plaintiffs Robert Ghiringhelli, Colin
Keith Holley, Derrold Nash, Anthony Petitti, Jr., and Harmon G. Pye, III,1 appeal the district
court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant The Assurance Group, Inc., on the plaintiffs’
claims for breach of contract, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, statutory and regulatory
violations, and for declaratory judgment. Before this court, the

This appeal requires us to determine when the statute of limitations begins to run under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA or Act), 91 Stat. 874, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq. The Act states that “[a]n action to enforce any liability created by this subchapter may be brought in any appropriate United States district court . . . within one year from the date on which the violation occurs.” 1

Houston, TX - Jury Finds Choke Canyon Infringed Buc-ee's Trade Mark

Buc-ee's, Ltd. v. Amjad Panjwani, Shepherd Retail, Inc., Harlow Food, Inc., Blanco Restaurant, Inc., Live Oak Retail, Inc., Falfurrias Highway Foods, Inc., Highway 46 Retail, Inc., Mariam, Inc. and S.W. Retail Inc. on trademark infringement theories claiming that the Choke Canyon's alligator mascot infringes on the Buc-ee

While serving a probationary term in connection
with two convictions of open and gross lewdness, the defendant
endeavored to meet a person whom he believed was a thirteen year
old boy so that he could perform sexual acts on him. Following
a probation violation hearing, a judge in the Superior Court
concluded that the defendant had violated his probation by
committing