{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Joseph P. Ebbing (Ebbing), appeals pro se from a decision of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas which declared his property a public nuisance and ordered the demolition of buildings located at 419 and 423 Sycamore Street (rear) Hamilton, Ohio. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the judgment as modified.

{¶ 2} Plaintiff-appellee, the city of Hamilton

The plaintiff, Robert Pelkey, appeals the decision of the Superior Court (Garfunkel, J.) granting the motion for partial summary judgment of the defendant, Dan’s City Used Cars, Inc. d/b/a Dan’s City Auto Body. We reverse and remand.

I. Background

The following facts are drawn from the record. In March 2009, the plaintiff brought suit against both his landlord, Colonial Village,

The Illinois eavesdropping statute makes it a felony to audio record “all or any part of any conversation” unless all parties to the conversation give their consent. 720 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/14-2(a)(1). The statute covers any oral communication regardless of whether the communication was intended to be private.

Id. 5/14-1(d). The offense is normally a class 4 felony but is elevated t

Appellants Matlock Place Apartments, L.P., JR TX 1, LLC, Hagop Kofdarali, Individually, and Robbie L. Sebern Burns, Individually appeal the trial court’s judgment rendered on a jury’s verdict in favor of Appellee Jeffry Druce Properties, LLC (Druce Properties).[1] Appellants contend in four issues and numerous sub-issues that the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the j

Billy Joe Sowell was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death by a three-judge panel in 1983. At sentencing, counsel’s mitigation strategy was to portray Sowell as a good person who lost his temper under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Counsel pursued this strategy despite having available the reports of several court-appointed mental health experts, which hinted at Sowell’s d

¶ 1 Plaintiffs Andrew Nadhir, Frank Battaglia, and Jason Welch filed suit against defendants
Bilha Salomon and Steven T. Sims, alleging that defendants failed to return plaintiffs’
security deposit at the conclusion of plaintiffs’ lease in violation of the City of Evanston
Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (Evanston Municipal Code § 5-3-1 et seq. (eff.
Feb. 2008)) (ER

This is a tragic case all around, for the defendant and his victims. When Matthew Steffes was just fourteen years old, he ran into Joshua Howard, the former boyfriend of a cousin. Howard was twenty-one. Steffes left an abusive, dysfunctional family when Howard invited Steffes to live with him, but the price was steep as Howard prostituted Steffes to have sex with an older man. Howard was in a sex

Jeffrey S. Gananian appeals from a judgment dismissing his cause of action for declaratory relief against former San Mateo County District Attorney James P. Fox. Gananian sought a declaration that Education Code section 15288 required Fox to investigate and prosecute alleged violations of law associated with the expenditure of voter-approved school bond funds. We disagree, and affirm the judgment.

¶1 LaToris DeWayne Collins was tried by jury and convicted on two counts of Rape in the First Degree, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2006, §§ 1111 & 1114 (Counts I and IV); and two counts of Kidnapping, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2004, § 741 (Counts III and V), all After Two or More Previous Felony Convictions, in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Case No. CF-2006-6326.1 In accordance wit

E.B.S. Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a/ Gateway News and Video, Venus Video, Eros Video, and A.V.W., Ltd. d/b/a Adult Video Warehouse, Appellants, appeal the trial court's summary judgment in favor of the City of El Paso, Appellee, stemming from the former's challenge to the constitutionality of the latter's sexually-oriented business ordinance. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

Debra Parks, the Appellant, filed a one-count complaint in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City alleging that she had been “wrongful[ly] terminat[ed] . . . in violation of public policy” from her job at Alpharma, Inc., the Appellee, a pharmaceutical company incorporated in Delaware, which had been headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey until being acquired in November of 2008 by King Pharmac

This is an appeal from an opinion of the Court of Appeals reversing the summary judgment granted Appellant by the Fayette Circuit Court . The trial court granted Appellant, Dianne Turner, summary judgment on grounds that she was entitled to "qualified official immunity" from the claims that Appellee, Brooke Nelson, individually, and as next friend of F.B ., asserted against her. Because Turner's a

This suit under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, pits 23 Liberian children against the Firestone Natural Rubber Company, which operates a 118,000-acre rubber plantation in Liberia through a subsidiary; various Firestone affiliates and officers were also joined as defendants. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of all the defendants, but the plaintiffs have appealed only

¶1. Michael Howard and Shannon Poole were awarded a four-million-dollar jury verdict against InTown,1 an extended-stay motel, for injuries each sustained as victims of an armed robbery in the motel. Aggrieved, InTown appealed. Finding no error, this Court affirms the trial court’s judgment.

Facts

¶2. Michael Keith Howard and Shannon Poole had rented a room at InTown in June 2008,

This appeal raises the question of whether a commercial lending institution, which is also an equity investor in a borrower‘s venture, violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Act) (Civ. Code, § 51) by declining to make a loan to a limited liability company because its managing member included a felon who had conspired to falsify customs documents and sell munitions to Syria.

We conclude tha

We are asked to determine if a school district can punish a student for expressive conduct that originated outside of the schoolhouse, did not disturb the school environment and was not related to any school sponsored event. We hold that, under these circumstances, the First Amendment prohibits the school from reaching beyond the schoolyard to impose what might otherwise be appropriate discipline.

This is an appeal from a forcible-detainer action to evict the defendant/appellant Roy Nash from the premises of the plaintiff/appellee Garden City Apartments (“Garden City”). We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Garden City Apartments is a federally subsidized Section 8 housing project in Houston, Texas. The majority of the residents at Garden City are adult females or children. Nash is a m

This is an appeal from a forcible-detainer action to evict the defendant/appellant Roy Nash from the premises of the plaintiff/appellee Garden City Apartments (“Garden City”). We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Garden City Apartments is a federally subsidized Section 8 housing project in Houston, Texas. The majority of the residents at Garden City are adult females or children. Nash is a m

In September 2005, American Airlines, Inc. ("American") began charging passengers a fee of $2 for each bag checked with porters who provide curbside service (called "skycaps") at Boston's Logan Airport. Arguing that passengers mistook the fee for a mandatory gratuity for the skycaps and stopped tipping, several porters brought suit against American; the present appeal is a product of that litigati

"Under the doctrine of overbreadth, a statute violates the First Amendment it if prohibits a substantial amount of protected expression." PSINet, Inc. v. Chapman, 362 F.3d 227, 234 (4th Cir. 2004). Defendants appeal a permanent injunction prohibiting the enforcement of a Maryland statute due to its overbreadth. We conclude that the statute—which limits the range of permissible conduct, attire, a

Anonymous Plaintiffs-Appellants J, S, B, and V sued Joseph R. Francis and Mantra Films, Inc., MRA Holdings, LLC, and Aero Falcons, LLC—companies owned or controlled by Francis—for damages stemming from films the Defendants produced in which the Plaintiffs, while under the age of eighteen, exposed their breasts and engaged in sexually explicit acts. The Plaintiffs filed a motion to maintain the

At issue today is the constitutionality of an ordinance that the Manatee County, Florida Board of County Commissioners (“the Board”) adopted to regulate sexually oriented businesses in Manatee County (“the County”). Peek-a-Boo Lounge of Bradenton, Inc. (“Peek-a-Boo”), an adult dancing establishment in Manatee County, along with two similar establishments, sued 1 the County claiming tha

After remand, plaintiffs appeal the district court’s renewed grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant. We affirm.

I.

On August 17, 2004, defendant Kenton County Fiscal Court adopted Ordinance No. 451.7, which regulates adult businesses in the county. The ordinance controls the application and issuance of licenses; determines how, where, and when sexually-oriented enterta

Emir Bautista was terminated as a sworn peace officer by the Los Angeles County Sheriff‟s Department (Department) for engaging in a personal relationship with a known prostitute and heroin addict in violation of the Department‟s prohibited-association policy. On appeal Bautista challenges the trial court‟s denial of his petition for writ of mandate seeking to reverse the decision of the Los

Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate) and Wayne Watson, an Allstate attorney, seek review of an order denying their motion for partial summary judgment. Allstate and Watson argue that an action in tort for spoliation of evidence may only be maintained where evidence is permanently lost or destroyed, not when evidence is only concealed from the complaining party. We hold that the tort of fraudulent