Plaintiffs are a group of cities in their municipal capacities and the successor agencies to several redevelopment agencies that have since been dissolved, multiple community development commissions, a private nonprofit housing corporation, and an individual taxpayer. Specifically, plaintiffs are the City of Cerritos, City of Carson, City of Cypress, City of Lakewood, City of Paramount, City of P

We must decide whether the district court abused its
discretion in denying Plaintiff Denise P. Edwards’s motion
for class certification, in her action against Defendants First
American Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary First
American Title Insurance Company (collectively, “First
American”). Edwards, seeking to represent a class of
similarly-situated home buyers, a

Former IRS agent Jorge Aviles asserts that he was fired in retaliation for protected whistleblowing. Aviles alleges that he uncovered that ExxonMobil Corporation (“Exxon”) had perpetrated a $500 million tax fraud and that IRS officials covered it up. Aviles claims he disclosed this information to his supervisors and that he was ultimately fired in retaliation for this protected disclosure in viola

This case presents an appeal from a judgment rendered after a bench trial. Appellees brought a derivative suit against appellant Roscoe F. “Trey” White, III for fraud by non-disclosure, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Appellees sued appellant White Ventures Energy LLC for breach of contract. They also sought declaratory

In December 2007, the Tribune Company (which published the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times and held many other properties) was facing a challenging business climate. Sensing an opportunity, Sam Zell, a wealthy real estate investor, orchestrated a leveraged buy-out (“LBO”), a transaction by which a purchaser (in this case, an entity controlled by Zell and, for convenience, referred to by

The pertinent facts are as follows. The respondent and the petitioner, Glenda J. Ball, were married in 1994 and separated in 2004. They have three children: a daughter born in 1995, a son born in 1997, and another son born in 1999.
In July 2005, the parties entered into a separation agreement in Massachusetts requiring the respondent to pay the petitioner $519 in weekly
2
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This case arises from the failed Black Rock North Development project undertaken by BRN in Coeur d’Alene. BRN was formed by Marshall Chesrown, who served as CEO, to develop a high-end 325-unit residential and golf course community on the west side of Lake Coeur d’Alene. The project was known as Black Rock North. American Bank was the lender for this project. The project required that BRN obtain

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Bryan Wainio with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: BRG1, BURGLARY - FIRST DEGREE , in violation of 21 O.S. 1431
Date Of Offense: 12/31/2013

Party Name: Disposition Information:

WAINIO, BRYAN
(After Prior Convictions)
Disposed: DISMISSED, 02/14/2014. Dismissed- Request of the State.
Count as Disposed:BURGLARY

This case involves two questions arising out of the City of Rochester’s selection of
a contractor to run its municipal bus service. The first question requires us to determine
the appropriate standard of review for an award of a government contract through a “best
value” bidding process, a method by which a government contractor is selected by
weighing various quantitative and

Tulsa, OK - Personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on auto negligence theories claiming:

1. Plaintiffs were at all material times residents of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
2. Defendant was at all material times upon information and belief a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
3. Defendant C D I, a Domestic For Profit Business Corporation, a/k/a CDI, Domestic<

The federal Medicaid program provides financial assistance to states that offer medical treatment to needy persons. (Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center v. Shewry (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 460, 469–470 (Mission I).) “California participates in the federal Medicaid program through the Medi-Cal program,” and the Department is the state agency authorized to administer the Medi-Cal program. (Id.

Needelman entered into a one-year lease beginning on April 1, 2008, with the management company of DeWolf for an apartment on Greenwich Street in San Francisco (Greenwich apartment). DeWolf is an agent of M&H, the owner of the apartment building. After the lease expired on March 31, 2009, Needelman remained as a month-to-month tenant.
On December 22, 2011, DeWolf served Needleman with a t

Federal sentencing guidelines increase the presumptive sentences of
persons who commit certain federal firearms offenses while also “under
indictment” for other state or federal offenses. Gabriel Saiz was convicted on two
counts of unlawful firearm possession. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(k), 924(a)(1)(B);
26 U.S.C. §§ 5841(a), 5845(a)(3), 5861(d), 5871. He was given an enhanced
senten

Plaintiffs appeal the district court’s dismissal of a securities class action against
ZAGG, Inc. and its former CEO and Chairman, Robert Pedersen, alleging violations
of the antifraud provisions of the securities laws. The plaintiffs allege Pedersen failed
to disclose in several of ZAGG’s SEC filings the fact that he had pledged nearly half
of his ZAGG shares, amounting to approxim

In this § 1983 action, Salvador Reza alleges that Arizona
State Senator Russell Pearce violated his constitutional rights
when he ordered Reza removed, and barred, from the Arizona
Senate building (the Building) at the state capital. Reza
contends that Senator Pearce targeted him because of his
public criticism of the senator, and because of Reza’s
Mexican heritage. Senator

In December 2010, in response to a call reporting a potential crime, Salt Lake City Police Officer Jonathan Dew began a search of the house where Mr. Carrera rented a room. During his search, Officer Dew identified himself as a police officer and asked Mr. Carrera to come out of his bedroom. After being asked several times, Mr. Carrera finally joined Officer Dew in the living room. ¶3 Upon enterin

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Bryan Wainio with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: BRG1, BURGLARY - FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1431
Date of Offense: 12/31/2013
Party Name Disposition Information
WAINIO, BRYAN Disposed: DISMISSED, 02/14/2014. Dismissed- Request of the State
Count as Disposed: BURGLARY - FIRST DEGREE(BRG1)
Violation of 21 O.S. 1431
Co

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Amy Rennee Truax with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABOFF, ASSAULT & BATTERY UPON A POLICE OFFICER, in violation of 21 O.S. 649
Date of Offense: 01/08/2014
Party Name Disposition Information
TRUAX, AMY RENNEE Disposed: DEFERRED, 07/29/2014. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: ASSAULT & BATTERY UPON A POLICE OFFICER(ABOFF)
Violation of

In 1994, while on parole for a previous crime, Appellant kidnapped his victim outside a grocery store in Campbell County, forced her into her vehicle at knife-point, and raped her. Appellant was apprehended and arrested. He subsequently pled guilty to one count of first-degree sexual assault and one count of kidnapping. Appellant was also determined to be a habitual offender. He was sentenced to

Tulsa, OK -The State of Oklahoma charged Stuart Chance Jones with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: BRG2, BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE , in violation of 21 O.S. 1435
Date Of Offense: 01/10/2014

Party Name: Disposition Information:

JONES, STUART CHANCE
(After Prior Convictions)
Pending.

Count # 2.
Count as Filed: RES, RESISTING AN OFFICER , in

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Melvin Eugene Easily with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: ABDOM, DOMESTIC ASSAULT & BATTERY WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON , in violation of 21 O.S. 644 D 1
Date Of Offense: 01/13/2014

Party Name: Disposition Information:

EASILY, MELVIN EUGENE
(After Prior Convictions)
Disposed: DISMISSED, 02/24/2014. Dismissed by Cou

Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, local exchange carriers such as Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream) must connect calls made to their customers by the customers of national telecommunications companies such as Sprint. Prior to 2009, Sprint paid Windstream state access charges for connecting nonnomadic intrastate long-distance VoIP calls—that is, calls made by cabletelephone

This appeal is the latest chapter in an ongoing dispute between Ingrid Anderson and the City of Blue Ash, Ohio, over whether Anderson can keep a miniature horse at her house as a service animal for her disabled minor daughter, C.A. C.A. suffers from a number of disabilities that affect her ability to walk and balance independently, and the horse enables her to play and get exercise in her backya

Wayne Kubsch appeals the denial
of his habeas corpus petition. After being convicted of
murdering his wife, her son, and her ex-husband, Kubsch
was sentenced to death. Kubsch’s three principal arguments
on appeal are that his conviction and sentence are unconstitutional
because (a) the Indiana trial court excluded evidence
of a witness’s exculpatory but hearsay statement to

Lisa Barr was a tenure-track journalism
professor at Western Illinois University from the fall of
2007 through the spring semester 2010, when the University
declined to retain her for the next academic year. Barr contends
that the nonrenewal decision was in retaliation for
complaints she made in 2008 about racial discrimination at
the school. In March 2010 she sued the Univ