Under Revenue and Taxation Code section 1604, a county assessment appeals board must hear and decide a taxpayer's application for reduction of an assessment within two years of the application. If the appeals board fails to act within two years, the taxpayer's opinion of value becomes the assessed value, both for the year listed in the application and for subsequent ... More...   $0 (01-21-2003 - CA)

Appellee Felipe Juarez, a Hispanic computer operator, began working for ACS in October 1995. During his employment, ACS consistently gave him high scores in formal performance evaluations. He received ratings of mostly "outstanding" and "exceeds requirements" in evaluation categories. In his last comprehensive performance evaluation, his immediate supervisor specifically stated that "Mr. Juarez is... More...   $272500 (01-08-2003 - OK)

Meraj International Investment Corporation ("Meraj"), doing business as Realty Professionals of America, operated two real estate offices under franchise agreements with Century 21 Real Estate Corporation. After a dispute arose regarding the amount of franchise fees owed and the continued use of the Century 21 name by one of the real estate offices, Century 21 sued Meraj for breach of contract and... More...   $700000 (01-08-2003 - CO)

Construction Design, Inc. (CDI), appeals from the trial court's judgment for the respondent, William Gomez, in the remitted amount of $2,760,000 on a jury verdict awarding him $3,760,000 in compensatory damages for injuries he suffered from a fall at the ADM Soybean Processing Plant in North Kansas City, Missouri. At the time of the fall, Gomez was working, as a "pipefitter helper," for TMS, Inc. ... More...   $0 (12-27-2002 - MO)

A jury found that Aetna Insurance Company maliciously prosecuted two lawsuits against the insureds, George F. Hillenbrand, a framer, and his company, George F. Hillenbrand, Inc. The Insurance Company of North America (INA) handled the investigation and processing of the claim, as well as the prosecution of the lawsuits against Hillenbrand, but the trial court granted INA's motion for a direct... More...   $4445000 (12-20-2002 - CA)

Defendant, Wal-Mart, Inc., appeals from the judgment of the trial court, entered pursuant to a jury verdict, in favor of plaintiff ad litem, Jewell Othman, in an action for personal injuries sustained by her husband, John Othman, in a fall on Wal-Mart's premises. We affirm. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence established that Jewell and John Othman went to a Wal-Mart s... More...   $125000 (12-03-2002 - MO)

Plaintiffs, Todd Erdman and his wife, Tracy Erdman, brought a suit against Condaire, Inc., and Sachs Electric Company to recover damages for injuries Todd Erdman sustained in a fall through an opening in the floor of a building under construction. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Todd Erdman for $700,000 and Tracy Erdman for $235,000 on her separate consortium claim. Condaire, Inc., and Sac... More...   $0 (12-03-2002 - MO)

On September 16, 1998, Buckler, who resided in Albany, Indiana at the time, was traveling northbound in his vehicle on State Road 37 in Elwood, Indiana. At the same time that Buckler passed a grocery store parking lot, Childress exited the parking lot in her vehicle. Childress faced west and intended to turn left onto southbound State Road 37. The right front of Childress' vehicle struck the right... More...   $4149 (11-26-2002 - IN)

Plaintiff-appellee Jane Gagliardo ("Gagliardo") sued Connaught Laboratories, Inc. ("CLI") for employment discrimination in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. After a trial, the jury found CLI's dismissal of Gagliardo violated both the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. S 12101 et seq., and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Ac... More...   $2500000 (11-25-2002 - PA)

Marlin was injured on July 20, 1991, while he was installing stainless steel piping at Kraft's plant in Champaign. Marlin and another Nogle employee, Mike Mills, were standing on a "manlift" and welding flanges to a pipe. Marlin's foreman, Mike Law, attempted to deliver some equipment to him by bringing it in the basket of a forklift that was owned by Kraft and operated by another Nogle employee. ... More...   $879400 (11-24-2002 - IL)

American Golf Corporation ("AGC") appeals from a judgment on a jury verdict in favor of Robert Hogate ("Hogate") in a premises liability action. AGC claims that the trial court erred in denying its motion for judgment nothwithstanding the verdict because Hogate failed to prove a breach of duty by AGC, and Hogate failed to make a submissible case against AGC. Finding no duty, we reverse. In review... More...   $100000 (11-13-2002 - MO)

This is a personal injury action arising from the collision of Glen Munns' car with a dead horse on the road. The horse had been hit and killed by a truck belonging to Swift Transportation Co., Inc. Following trial, Swift Transportation and its driver who had killed the horse were found 80% at fault for Munns' accident. Swift moved the district court for a new trial. The district court denied S... More...   $0 (11-13-2002 - ID)

Walter Baker (Baker), as Administrator of the Estate of his deceased son, Shawnn Baker, appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) dismissing his claims against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Turnpike Commission) and against the Lane Construction Company, Inc. (Lane Construction) based on the statute of limitations and remitting part of the verdi... More...   $0 (11-06-2002 - PA)

Merle Mullins appeals the trial court's grant of a new trial limited solely to the issue of damages. In particular, Mullins contends that because liability was hotly contested and the evidence could have supported a verdict for either party, the trial court should have granted a new trial on the issues of liability and damages. Because we find that liability was hotly contested and the evidence co... More...   $0 (11-06-2002 - IN)

Jeffrey and Marta Morrison contend the trial court erred by granting summary judgment against them on their malicious prosecution claim. The court ruled the underlying suit by a buyer - for damages allegedly stemming from construction defects the Morrisons failed to disclose when selling their condominium - was not so untenable that no reasonable attorney would pursue it. We affirm. We decline ... More...   $0 (11-06-2002 - CA)

John Bullington, a citizen of Idaho employed as a meat inspector by the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA"), brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas against IBP, Inc. ("IBP"), a Delaware corporation doing business in the State of Kansas. In his complaint, Bullington alleged that on June 24, 1997, while working within the scope of his employment with... More...   $185657 (11-01-2002 - KS)

Here we hold that when reversal of a trial court judgment in the Court of Appeal gives rise to a possibl... More...   $0 (10-30-2002 - CA)

Defendants Michael Lomont and Associated Pathology Consultants-Gottlieb, S.C., appeal a judgment of the circuit court of Du Page County entered in favor of plaintiffs, Laura and Ronald Lawler. Following a jury trial, Laura was awarded $3,800,000 and Ronald was awarded $50,000. * * * The instant appeal arises out of a medical negligence action. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants had failed to prope... More...   $3800000 (10-30-2002 - IL)

Defendants appeal as of right from the entry of judgment in the amount of $29,332,686 following the jury's verdict in plaintiffs' favor in this wrongful death action. We reverse, vacate the judgment, and remand for entry of judgment in favor of defendants, holding that under the circumstances defendants owed no legally cognizable duty to protect plaintiffs' decedent from the homicidal acts of ... More...   $0 (10-28-2002 - MI)

During the spring of 1998 Steven Albrechtsen, a professor in the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Coaching at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, suffered two reverses: he was told that he could not teach two particu-lar summer workshops that year (losing about $1,210 in pay), and he did not receive an $86 merit increase in his salary for the next year. He respon... More...   $0 (10-23-2002 - WI)

Alisa L. Holmes appeals from a judgment reducing the damages awarded her by a jury after a trial before Judge Huck. Appellant brought the present action against her former employer, appellee West Palm Beach Housing Authority ("WPBHA"), for, inter alia, gender-based denial of a promotion (the "discrimination claim"), retaliatory termination in response to her complaints of gender bias (the "retalia... More...   $3300 (10-09-2002 - FL)

James and Sharon Vaughn ["the Vaughns"] appeal a final judgment awarding a money judgment in favor of Paul Munn ["Munn"]. Munn, who purchased a home from the Vaughns, obtained a verdict for breach of contract and fraud in connection with the sale. The Vaughns contend on appeal that there was no evidence of fraudulent nondisclosure but, mainly, the Vaughns claim the damage award was excessive. ... More...   $395651 (10-04-2002 - FL)

DaimlerChrysler Corporation, formerly known as Chrysler, appeals from the judgment entered against it awarding Gerald Salitros $100,000 in punitive damages and $445,516 in front pay on his claim that Chrysler retaliated against him for exercising his rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Chrysler also appeals the district court's award to Salitros of $128,268.52 in attorney's fees ... More...   $545516 (10-03-2002 - MN)

Construction Network, ... More...   $303058 (10-01-2002 - MO)

Chrysler Financial Company, L.L.C. ("CFC") appeals from a judgment entered in accordance with verdicts reached following jury trial in favor of William E. Flynn, Jr. ("Bill") on CFC's petition for replevin and Bill's counterclaim counts for trespass, conversion, and breach of contract, and in favor of Bill's wife, Grace A. Flynn ("Grace"), on her counterclaim count for negligent infliction of emot... More...   $0 (09-27-2002 - MO)