Appellant was convicted of the 1991 murder of Peter Sanelli, for which he
was sentenced to death. The evidence established that appellant shot and killed Peter
while he and Thomas Sowell were stealing Peter’s car on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland.
A detailed recitation of the evidence adduced at trial can be found in this court’s opinion
that resulted from appellant’s direct a

Peter Belmont, a resident of Wyandotte County, habitually picked up young African-American men in Kansas City, Missouri. Belmont had befriended several men this way. They would do odd jobs and yard work at his home. They would help him with his dogs. Three men became long-term friends: Michael Griffin, Raymond Miller, and Quincy Coleman. Some men Belmont would pick up and take back to his home, an

¶1 The oil and gas industry is a major economic force in the Uintah Basin. This industry relies, to some extent, on access to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation of the Ute Indian Tribe. The plaintiffs allege that, through its ability to restrict the industry’s access to tribal lands, the tribe has held hostage the economy of the non-Indian population.
¶2 Ryan Harvey, a plaintiff and part owner o

E. Jeffrey Donner and Judee Donner appeal the district court’s dismissal of
their intentional misrepresentation claim against Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus
Golf Club, LLC (collectively “Nicklaus”). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1291, we affirm.
I
We will not discuss in detail the background facts of this case, which are
covered in our prior opinion, Donner v.

ORS 408.230(2)(c) requires a public employer to
“devise and apply methods” of giving veterans and disabled
veterans “special consideration” in the employer’s hiring
process when that hiring process does not rank applicants
by means of a score. The issue in this case is whether the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (county) complied with
that requirement when it failed to pr

Appellant was indicted for the murder of Keith Colston and first-degree
arson relating to the burning of the Colston residence. His first trial ended
I . I with a hung jury. Upon retrial, he was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment. On appellate review; th:l.s Court reversed the convictions and
remanded the case for a third trial. See Ross v. Commonwealth, 2015 WL

In 2005, Pitts pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, attempted
murder, aggravated burglary, and kidnapping. He was sentenced to a jointly
recommended sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years
on the aggravated-murder conviction, and ten years on each of the other offenses, all
to run concurrently, for an aggregate sentence of life without parole f

Tulsa, OK - Brett A. Criss v. Wade A. Goodwin

Issue # 1. Issue: AUTO NEGLIGENCE (AUTONEG)
Filed By: CRISS, BRETT A
Filed Date: 04/04/2017
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: GOODWIN, WADE A Disposed: DISMISSED - SETTLED, 10/16/2017. Judge
Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
04-04-2017 TEXT

CIVIL RELIEF MORE THAN $10

Tulsa, OK - Personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an auto negligence theory.

Issue # 1. Issue: AUTO NEGLIGENCE (AUTONEG)
Filed By: GARRETT, PATRICK
Filed Date: 06/28/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: GENN, CHRISTY MICOLE Disposed: DISMISSED - SETTLED, 10/26/2017. Dismissed- Settled
Docket
Date Code Description

In these proceedings, plaintiff Wayne Oliver filed a complaint in Maryland state court alleging asbestos exposure claims against, among other defendants, Campbell-McCormick, Inc. (“CMC”). In response, CMC filed a third-party complaint against several entities, including General Electric Company (“GE”). GE then removed the litigation to the District of Maryland, prompting Oliver to move to sever hi

SAS Institute (SAS) and World Programming Limited (WPL) are competitors in the market for statistical analysis software. SAS alleges that WPL breached a license agreement for SAS software and violated copyrights on that software. We agree with the district court that the contractual terms at issue are unambiguous and that SAS has shown that WPL violated those terms. We thus affirm the district cou

In this putative class action, consumers of prescription eye medication allege that manufacturers and distributors of the medication packaged it in such a way that forced them to waste it, violating the consumer protection statutes of their home states. The District Court dismissed the entire action for lack of jurisdiction, finding the consumers’ allegations of injury in fact insufficient to conf

In this appeal, we must decide whether the enhanced voucher provision of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437f(t), requires property owners to continuously renew enhanced-voucher tenancies. Theodore Hayes and Aqeela Fogle (the Hayes family) are a low-income family whose rent is subsidized by enhanced voucher assistance. Their eligibility to receive enhanced vouchers is contingen

Tulsa, OK - Personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an auto negligence theory.

Issue # 1. Issue: AUTO NEGLIGENCE (AUTONEG)
Filed By: DUNCAN, LISA
Filed Date: 12/08/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: SHEPARDSON, JOHN RANDALL Disposed: DISMISSED - SETTLED, 10/30/2017. Dismissed- Settled
Defendant: VOSS, ABBY LYNN Dispos

Tulsa, OK - Derek Hall sued Mill Creek Lumber of Oklahoma, Inc., Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company, Inc. and Nickolaus Tyson Schutz

Issue # 1. Issue: AUTO NEGLIGENCE (AUTONEG)
Filed By: HALL, DEREK
Filed Date: 09/16/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: SCHUTZ, NICKOLAUS TYSON Disposed: DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE, 09/08/2017. Other
Defendant: MIL

In the underlying case,1 Todd was charged with failure to comply with the
sex offender registry. He entered a guilty plea and was sentenced pursuant to a
plea agreement he reached with the State.
Todd directly appealed his conviction and sentence, and a panel of our
court decided his appeal in State v. Todd, No. 13-0271, 2015 WL 1546348, at *4
(Iowa Ct. App. Apr. 8, 2015

On October 30, 2012, Saint Francis Hospital, Inc., Neurological Surgery, Inc., and Douglas Koontz, M.D. (collectively Petitioners) performed decompressive laminectomies of Respondent's, Johnson John (Patient), spine at the C2-3, C3-4, C4-5, C5-6 and C6-7 regions. After the operation, Patient allegedly became partially paralyzed, suffered constant pain, was hospitalized for four months and submitte

This is an appeal from the grant of a no-evidence summary judgment motion
in a suit to modify the parent-child relationship. The appellant contends that the noevidence
motion is legally defective and that she presented evidence raising a
genuine issue of material fact on the challenged elements of material and substantial
change in circumstances and best interest of the child. We a

This accelerated appeal of the granting of three special appearances arises out of a borrower-lender dispute. After the lender, a limited liability company, brought a collection suit against the borrowers and guarantors, the guarantors filed a counterclaim against the lender and filed various claims against others. The
2
guarantors now challenge the trial court’s granting of the special ap

Tulsa, OK - Woman Convicted of Child Neglect Sentenced To 19-Years In Prison

The State of Oklahoma charged Ruth Godinez, a/k/a Ruth Godinez-Perez with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: CHN, CHILD NEGLECT, in violation of 21 O.S. 843.5 (C)
Date of Offense: 01/17/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
GODINEZ, RUTH
Docket
Date Code Description Count Party

¶1 The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the thrice incarnated affidavit of merit requirement found in Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 19.1 (Supp. 2013), is unconstitutional. In the wake of Zeier v. Zimmer, 2006 OK 98, 152 P.3d 861, its sequel Wall v. Marouk, 2013 OK 36, 302 P.3d 775, and upon reexamination of the Oklahoma Constitution, the inevitable conclusion is that section 19.1 is an impermissibl

On June 29, 2015, the Board of Trustees of Kilgore Independent School District (KISD) voted to repeal KISD’s local option homestead exemption (LOHE). That repeal came just fourteen days after Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill No. 1 (SB1), which (A) was to become effective on the later passage of an enabling constitutional amendment by the voters, (B) increased a statewide homestead exemption

This case has a complex procedural history lasting more than a decade and spanning several state and federal venues. It began when the estates of several deceased nursing-home patients (the “Estates” or “Appellants”) brought a series of wrongful-death suits against a network of nursing homes. These suits collectively resulted in $1 billion in empty-chair judgments against the network. In an effort

Issue # 1. Issue: AUTO NEGLIGENCE (AUTONEG)
Filed By: DENTON, CINDY
Filed Date: 02/25/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: MCENTIRE, ANNA DEAN Disposed: DISMISSED, 09/13/2017. Judge
Defendant: MCENTIRE, WADIE J Disposed: DISMISSED, 09/13/2017. Judge
Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
02-25-2016 TEXT

CIVIL RELIEF

Jose Flores, Ryan Reyes, and Brian Perez, three police officers of Latino descent (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), sued their employer and, after a nine-day jury trial, they won. The officers alleged that the City of Westminster (“the City” or “the Department”) as well as current and former Westminster Police Chiefs Mitchell Waller, Andrew Hall, Ronald Coopman, and Kevin Baker (“the Chiefs”), discrim