K.H.’s inheritance was rapidly depleted while he was in the care of professional guardians. He sued two prior guardians, the first for breach of fiduciary duty and the second for fraud. The superior court dismissed the claims against both guardians on statute of limitations grounds. However, because neither guardian filed a final accounting that fully disclosed all financial matters,

Steven Jenkins appeals the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission dismissing his appeal from his disqualification from unemployment benefits because he did not "appear" at a telephone hearing before the appeals tribunal. On appeal, Mr. Jenkins requests a new telephone hearing on the grounds that he did not appear at his first hearing because he failed to properly read the not

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in a declaratory judgment action involving first-party commercial insurance coverage. Appellee Tan It All, Inc. ("TIA"), which operates tanning salons, sued its property insurer, Evergreen National Indemnity Company, to recover the cost of tanning equipment stolen from one of its trucks. The truck was parked in the parking lot of a shopping center conta

Plaintiff-appellant, Ugurhan Akturk Kosereis ("Kosereis"), brought a discrimination claim in the district court against his employer, the State of Rhode Island Department of Children Youth and Families, Rhode Island Training School ("the Training School"), and the director of the Training School in his official capacity. Kosereis alleged that the defendants discriminated against him based on hi

David Kalai appeals from a judgment entered against him on his claim for damages against Timothy Lee Gray. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Gray on the ground that the parties had agreed to submit their dispute to arbitration, and Kalai failed to exhaust that arbitration remedy. Kalai does not challenge the court's basic premise that the parties had an enforceable arbitrat

Rangwal Eloy Spindler appeals from a Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage claiming lack of personal jurisdiction. Resco Miami Corporation and Massima American Corporation, both found by the trial court to be owned by the husband, appeal from an order denying their 1.540 motion to vacate portions of the Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage on the grounds that they received no noti

A personal injury plaintiff, himself an attorney, was sanctioned for prosecuting a frivolous appeal. He immediately filed a malpractice action against the attorney who had represented him in the appeal, contending an attorney who prosecutes a frivolous appeal thereby commits malpractice per se. The trial court agreed, and entered summary judgment against the appellate practitioner.

The ap

Plaintiff, B & R Therapy Services, Inc., appeals from the dismissal of its action for breach of contract or, in the alternative, for quantum meruit against defendants, Colonial Health Care Center, Inc., et al. We affirm.

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On December 3, 1984, Arturo de la Cruz purchased from Columbus P. Brown by executory contract a parcel of land described as Lot 3, Block 5, Roseville Subdivision, El Paso County, Texas, also known as 320 Bauman Road, El Paso County, Texas. De La Cruz made the final payment on June 9, 1997. In January 2001, he filed suit for damages arising from Brown's failure to transfer recorded legal title t

1 Appellants Charles N. Inmon, Diana L. Inmon, and Mark S. Cummings (collectively "Plaintiffs") appeal from the Maricopa County Superior Court's summary judgment dismissing their claims against Eddie De La Torre and Crane Rental Services, Inc. ("CRSI"). We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

2 Charles Inmon and Mark Cummings were iron workers emp

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Thomas Jeffrey (Jeffrey) appeals from the trial court's order granting E.C.E., Inc., a new trial on the issue of punitive damages for slander of title. Jeffrey also appeals the trial court's judgment converting the motion to dismiss into one for summary judgment and granting of summary judgment in favor of E.C.E., Inc., on Jeffrey's counts for slander of title and punitive damages based on res

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This case arises from an accident in which a train collided with a truck near Tamo, Arkansas, on June 28, 1995. Appellant Scipio Johnson was a passenger in the truck and was seriously injured when he was thrown from the vehicle upon impact. He and his wife, Bessie Johnson, filed suit in the Jefferson County Circuit Court against Appellees Union Pacific Railroad, Bonds Fertilizer, Inc., and Bond

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This is an appeal from a preliminary injunction issued by the district court against the Town of Orleans, Massachusetts, its police chief, and two individual officers prohibiting specific actions by them. The injunction was obtained by Sarah Mandel incident to a civil rights suit brought by her against the defendants, but its origin lies in divorce and custody litigation between Sarah Mandel an

L & L Wholesale, Inc., ("L&L") sought to register a Colorado default judgment against Missouri residents George L. Gibbens and April R. Gibbens ("the Gibbens" when referred to together, by their first names when discussed individually) in Greene County, Missouri. The trial court sustained the Gibbens' motion to vacate the registration of the foreign judgment. With three points relied on, L&L conte

In 1989, (Laurel) Reefer began receiving Social Security Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") benefits because she suffered disabling hypertension. In March 1997, the Social Security Administration ("SSA") reviewed Reefer's case and issued a notice of disability cessation on the ground that her medical condition had improved to the point that her disability had ceased.1 Her benefits were dis

Three individuals moved to intervene in a long-closed civil forfeiture action. They sought to assert claims to a one-sixth share of a $14.3 million winning state lottery ticket, still in payout, which had belonged to James "Whitey" Bulger. Two of the claimants, Olga Davis and Marion Hussey, are mothers of young women whom Whitey Bulger allegedly murdered in the 1980s; the other is one of his broth

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This antitrust case involves the market for small business local telephone services in the Seattle/Tacoma area. Defendant-Appellee Qwest, formerly known as “U S West,” owns the local telephone network in 14 western states, including Washington. In addition to selling basic flat-rate business lines, Qwest also sells “Centrex,” a product offering volume discounted phone

3 The Grynbergs own working interests in natural gas wells located in Wyoming and Colorado. In 1971, the Grynbergs signed a gas purchase agreement with Mountain Fuel Supply Company, predecessor in interest to Questar Pipeline Company, for the sale of gas from the Colorado wells (Colorado Contract). In April and June of 1974, the Grynbergs signed three more gas purchase agreements with Mountain

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Vicky Meyers worked as a Protection and Safety Worker for the State of Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from May 29, 1998, until she resigned on May 9, 2000. For most of that time Meyers was an "ongoing" case worker, meaning she monitored children in the care of HHS over the long term. Meyers was part of each child's Treatment Team that made placement and treatment recom