In this guardianship case, we must determine whether the evidence is legally and factually sufficient to support the trial court's finding that the applicant/appellee, Harris County Guardianship Program ("the Program"), proved by clear and convincing evidence that respondent/appellant, Jeanette Lynn Hinrichsen, was incapacitated, that guardianship was in her best interest, and that her rights woul

This is an appeal from the trial court's decree terminating appellant Beatryce Hall's parental rights to her child, M.C.H. In support of the termination of parental rights, the trial court found as follows: (1) Hall "engaged in conduct or knowingly placed [M.C.H.] with persons who engaged in conduct which endangers the physical or emotional well-being of [M.C.H.]"

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Plaintiff-Appellant Marcelo Rodriguez ("Rodriguez") brought this action against Defendant-Appellee Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, aka George Michael ("Michael"), for slander per se and intentional infliction of emotional distress, based on statements made by Michael in magazine and televi-sion interviews regarding Rodriguez's 1998 arrest of Michael, and the lyrics and video of Michael's newly

Appellants Empress Adult Video and Bookstore and Osco Communications Group (collectively, Empress) operate an adult-oriented business that principally sells and rents nonobscene, sexually explicit materials and predominantly features nonobscene, sexually explicit live performances. 1 As a result, A.R. S. § 13-1422, in conjunction with A.R. S. § 11-821, requires Empress to close between 1:00 a.

This case raises several First Amendment issues, including one in which the circuits are substantially divided: namely, the extent to which prompt judicial review must be assured in adult-business licensing cases. Plaintiff Z.J. Gifts D-4, L.L.C. ("ZJ") brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the City of Littleton's ("City's" or "Littleton's") adult business ordinance as unconstitutio

The City of Cincinnati appeals the decision of the district court declaring the City's drug-exclusion ordinance, Cincinnati Municipal Code § 755, unconstitutional on its face, and unconstitutional as applied to plaintiffs Patricia Johnson and Michael Au France, and awarding plaintiffs attorney fees. For the reasons set forth below, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.

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In this case, the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (the Commission) appeals from the district court’s order preliminarily enjoining it from enforcing certain state restrictions on nudity and other conduct, pending the outcome of a trial. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm in part and vacate in part.

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Giovani Carandola, Ltd. operates Christie’s Ca

The law allowing victims of sexual harassment to sue their employers applies only to those businesses with fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(b). In order to proceed in his sexual harassment claim, Kerry Stinnett was thus required to show that his employer, Iron Works Gym/Ex

Primarily at issue is whether the City of Dallas violated certain establishments' First Amendment rights when it amended its City Code to effectively require female performers to wear bikini tops, among other things, in order for those establishments to avoid being classified as sexually oriented business (SOBs), subject, inter alia, to zoning restrictions. Plaintiff and Intervenors (Plaintiffs),

In 1995, Richland Bookmart, Inc. (Bookmart), the operator of an adult-oriented video and book store, brought suit against Randall E. Nichols, the District Attorney for Knox County, Tennessee, challenging Tennessee's Adult-Oriented Establishments Act of 1995 (the Act) on the grounds that it violated both the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United S

Appellant, Courtney Farrer , appeals and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company (“USF&G”) cross-appeals from a final summary judgment order entered partly in favor of USF&G, and partly in favor of Farrer in this insurance dispute.1 The trial court found that USF&G had a duty to defend but not to indemnify as to two of Farrer’s counts. It also found no duty to either def

John Ways brought this action to challenge the constitutionality of a now repealed Lincoln ordinance prohibiting sexual contact in entertainment businesses. The district court 1 enjoined enforcement of the ordinance after concluding that it was unconstitutionally overbroad in violation of the First Amendment. We affirm.

The Lincoln City Council passed Ordinance No. 17613, codified as Lincol

Appellants, Lucious and Henrietta Brown, plaintiffs below, appeal the dismissal of their claims against Miami-Dade County (“the County” or “Miami-Dade”) for assault and negligence. They assert, and we agree, that their claims were not barred by the doctrine of sovereign immunity as found by the trial court. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Plaintiff Kenneth Smith (“Plaintiff” or “Smith”) brings this four-count Complaint against the City of New Haven, Officer Andrea Papa (“Papa”), Officer Lisa Wexler (“Wexler”), Sergeant R. Miller (“Muller”)1 / and Officer Christopher Perrone (“Perrone”). The first count alleges various violations of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983,

Brent Howard Wooten and Daniel Robert Mendoza (defendants) stand charged with pimping and pandering. According to the evidence at their preliminary hearing, they worked as managers at the Flesh Club. The Flesh Club appears to have been mainly a standard “strip joint.” However, it also offered semi-private rooms in which, for $240, plus an optional gratuity, a customer could watch t

Civil rights - 42 U.S.C. 1983 - Defendant ordered that plaintiff, a female transsexual, be strip-searched after she was arrested for prostitution and claimed she was female when she was about to be booked as a male. Schneider had been arrested and searched before with the result that it had previously been determined that she was a female and should be jailed in the women's section of the jail fa