The issue presented for our review is whether a municipal ordinance criminalizing “loitering with intent to commit prostitution� is facially unconstitutional. We find that the ordinance is overbroad and vague, and as such, we affirm the trial court which correctly found this ordinance unconstitutional.

Appellee was charged with violating the City of West Palm Beach ordinance regarding â

In this appeal, appellant Christopher R. Coker challenges the denial of his petition for provisional discharge from civil commitment. Coker was indeterminately committed in 2000 as a Sexually Dangerous Person as a result of a series of sex offenses involving 15 to 17-year-old girls. Coker petitioned for provisional discharge from civil commitment. After weighing the evidence presented by Coker and

Statutory language is important. It takes on added significance when a person‘s freedom is at stake. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigration offi-cials ―shall take into custody any‖ deportable alien who has committed various crimes ―when the alien is re-leased‖ from detention for those crimes. 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c)(1). The Act requires officials to hold such aliens without a

A jury convicted Rodney Goodwin of attempted transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity, under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) and (e). He challenges the sufficency of the evidence and the jury instructions. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.

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In June 2010, Goodwin began an online relationship with 16-year-old J.B. through Mbuzzy, a so

Beleal Garcia-Gonzalez (“Garcia�) appeals his conviction and sentence of 360 months of imprisonment and $600 in assessment fees, challenging: (1) the propriety of a supplemental jury instruction and the sufficiency of the evidence in support of his jury convictions on three counts of child sex trafficking; (2) the calculation of his sentence under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines; and (3) three

At his trial in 2009, Defendant-appellant Israel Weingarten was convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (John Gleeson, Judge) of two counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), and three counts of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, in violation

Defendant-appellant Mi Sun Cho was convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kimba M. Wood, Judge) of one count of conspiring to violate sex trafficking laws in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2422 and two substantive sex trafficking counts in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2. Cho raises several challenges to her conviction. First, sh

Richard Bensinger produced and screened a film about Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC. Claiming the film conveyed several defamatory statements, Spacecon filed suit against Bensinger in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, based on diversity jurisdiction, asserting a state-law claim for defamation per se. The district court granted Bensinger’s motion for summary judg

A jury found appellant Adriana Morales Hutson guilty of prostitution. The trial court sentenced Hutson to 180 days’ confinement in the Harris County Jail, suspended the confinement, and placed Hutson on community supervision for two years. In one issue on appeal, Hutson contends the evidence is insufficient to support her conviction. We affirm.

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11 Plaintiffs Kent Singer, Thomas Nollner, and Jonathan
12 Decker appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court
13 for the Northern District of New York (David N. Hurd, Judge)
14 granting summary judgment to the defendants on the plaintiffs'
15 First Amendment retaliation claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C.
16 § 1983. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants, wh

In 1992, a Tennessee jury convicted Petitioner-Appellant Henry Hodges of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death.

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The state courts upheld the conviction and sentence on appeal and denied Hodges’s petition for post-conviction relief. Hodges then petitioned for federal habeas relief, which the district court denied. Hodges now appea

A jury found defendant and appellant Russell Mecano, a police officer, guilty of solicitation of prostitution, sexual battery by restraint, sexual penetration by force or duress, and sexual penetration under threat by a public official. In the published portion of this opinion, we consider and reject Mecano‟s contention that because he never explicitly requested sex for money, there was insuffic

In 2005, William Scott MacDonald was convicted after a bench trial in the Circuit Court of the City of Colonial Heights, Virginia, of two offenses: the misdemeanor offense of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, in contravention of Virginia Code section 18.2-371; and the felony offense of violating the Commonwealth’s criminal solicitation statute, found in section 18.2-29. The criminal so

The United States of America charged Currea Garcia, Gloria N. "Diana" Giammalva, Ignacio Ijom-Brito, Juan "Fernando" Rosales Garza, Semaias Samuel Sanchez-Ajin, Dovereyne "Tony" Velasquez-Lopez, and Isr4ael Velaquez-Ramirez with sex trafficking conspiracy and enticing and coercing others in engage in prostitution.

The Government claimed that defendants illegally imported women Mexico and

Appellant, Bryan S. Foster doing business as Jaguar’s Gold Club (Foster),[1] appeals the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of the City of El Paso, Appellee, stemming from Foster’s challenge to the constitutionality of the City’s sexually-oriented business ordinance. Foster also appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to strike the City’s expert testimony.

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The issue before this Court is whether Florida’s absolute privilege, which shields judges, counsel, parties, and witnesses from liability for alleged defamatory statements made in the course of a judicial proceeding, extends to statements made by an attorney during ex-parte, out-of-court questioning of a potential, nonparty witness while investigating matters connected to a pending lawsuit. In D

This is an interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction that was sought by the State and the City of Houston to abate a common nuisance at Treasures, a gentlemen’s club, pursuant to Chapter 125 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §§ 125.001—.047. Appellants raise five issues challenging the propriety of the temporary injunction order and some of

The Plaintiff-Appellant JSLG, Inc. (“JSLG�) brought suit against the Defendants-Appellees, the City of Waco (“the City�) and Randy Childers,1 Building Official for the City, raising constitutional challenges to an ordinance governing sexually oriented businesses. The district court granted summary judgment for the City and denied JSLG’s request for a preliminary injunction. Finding no re

Plaintiffs-Appellants Randy Alman (“Alman�), Michael Barnes (“Barnes�), and the Triangle Foundation sued several Michigan law enforcement officials, the City of Westland, and Wayne County for their respective involvement in Alman’s arrest and the seizure of Barnes’s vehicle during an undercover operation. The district court granted the Defendants’ motion for summary judgment after fi

Phoenix, Arizona civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued the City of Phoenix on a planning and zoning theory.

¶1 This case involves the intersection of municipal zoning regulations and the right of tattoo artists to ply their trade. After the City of Mesa denied Ryan and Laetitia Coleman a permit to operate a tattoo parlor, the Colemans filed this action alleging violation

27 The defendants, the United States Department of Justice
28 ("DOJ"), the United States Department of Health and Human
29 Services ("HHS"), and the United States Agency for International
30 Development ("USAID"), appeal from a judgment of the United
31 States District Court for the Southern District of New York
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1 (Victor Marrero, Judge) granting a motion for summary judg

Defendant-Appellant Tracy Harris (“Harris�) was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) of conspiracy to commit a racketeering offense in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO�), and sentenced to 188 months in prison. On appeal, he challenges the substantive correctness of the jury instructions on the elements of § 1962(d) conspiracy; the sufficiency of t

26 This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment against the plaintiff
27 and its prior grant of a motion to dismiss one count of the amended complaint. Plaintiff-
28 Appellant Linda Velez (“Velez�) brought this action against Betsy Sanchez (“Sanchez�),
29 Sanchez’s sister Shari Munoz, and Sanchez’s and Shari’s mother Yolanda Munoz under the

Daniel Gomez appeals the trial court's judgment granting a directed verdict in favor of appellees Ron Brackett and Rose Rocha on his intentional infliction of emotional distress claim. On appeal, Gomez argues (1) the trial court lacked personal and subject matter jurisdiction over appellees' counterclaims against him and his girlfriend, Amy Dill, (2) the evidence negates appellees' right to judgme

¶1 Eighteen-month-old Wonzie Barrientos’s mother, Jessica Nelson, was killed in a car accident, the tragic result of a high-speed chase in which an Ogden City police officer pursued a speeding car that ultimately crashed into Nelson’s car. Plaintiff sued the police officer and Ogden City for negligence. Ogden City defended the case on the ground that it had governmental immunity and, if it di