Defendants Bob M. Cohen and Bob M. Cohen and Associates Law Corporation represented nonparty Paul Slack in a personal injury action on a contingent fee basis. They withdrew from the representation and plaintiff Michael Drell took over Mr. Slack’s case. Defendants asserted an attorney fee lien, informing one of the insurers in the personal injury case that any payment of funds to Mr. Slack was su

Earlier today, following three weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned guilty verdicts against Brian Gill, David Gill and Samuel McIntosh for their participation in the drug-related murder of Michael Dawson on June 22, 1994. Brian Gill and David Gill were also convicted of a narcotics trafficking conspiracy between 2011 and 2013. The charges arose out of the defendants’ lo

Appellee Francis X. Dougherty, a former employee with the School District of Philadelphia, was terminated after publicly disclosing the alleged misconduct of the School District’s Superintendent in steering a prime contract to a minority-owned business. Dougherty filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging First Amendment retaliation and viol

Dr. Jim Benge and his employer, Kelsey-Seybold Medical Group, PLLC, appeal from an adverse jury verdict finding that Dr. Benge’s medical negligence caused a perforation of Lauren Williams’s bowel during a hysterectomy. Dr. Benge and Kelsey-Seybold (collectively Dr. Benge) raise three issues challenging the judgment against them. First, Dr. Benge contends that Williams’s expert on the applica

A prosecution witness takes the witness stand but refuses to answer any questions. The trial court allows the prosecutor to ask the witness more than 100 leading questions concerning the witness's out-of-court statements to prove defendant guilty of several criminal offenses. The questions create the illusion of testimony. This deprived the defendant of a fair trial because he could not exercise h

Appellants Floyd Squires, III and Betty Squires (when referred to collectively, plaintiffs) sued the city of Eureka and several individuals. The complaint alleged 10 causes of action, the first seven common law claims, the last three under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendants filed an anti-SLAPP motion, which the trial court granted as to the first seven causes of action, allowing plaintiffs to conduct d

In November 1998, Donald Schubert was murdered. In April 2012, a jury convicted defendant Raul Pedroza of the first degree murder of Schubert and conspiracy to commit the murder. The jury also found true gang enhancement allegations. The prosecution’s case against defendant relied in large part on the testimony of an accomplice. Following the guilty verdict, the trial court granted defendant’s

Elenita L. Fajota appeals from an order of the trial court granting her ex-husband, Romer N. Fajota, joint legal custody of the couple's three children. According to Elenita, Romer admitted to engaging in acts of domestic violence, and the trial court found that Romer had committed domestic violence against her. Elenita contends that in awarding Romer joint legal custody, the trial court failed to

Plaintiff, Judy Elwell, for her claims against Defendant, the Board of Regents for the University of Oklahoma, alleges and states as follows:
PARTIES
1. Plaintiff was employed by Defendant as a Staff Assistant.
2. Defendant State of Oklahoma a reL The Board of Regents for the University of Oklahoma is a constitutional state agency that conducts business in the State of Oklahoma. Defend

Edith Roman owned a home in El Paso, Texas, but the lender foreclosed on the property in 2005.1 Enrique Gallardo bought the property at a foreclosure sale. In the pleadings, Roman asserts that she had an agreement with Gallardo that she could continue to reside in the home as a tenant and she could buy back the home when her financial condition improved. Alejandro
1 The factual summary is deri

Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises, Ltd. challenges the trial court’s award of attorney’s fees to Faith Gonzales, asserting: (1) the trial court erred in determining the amount of attorney’s fees to be awarded because a jury was required to determine the reasonableness of the amount of attorney’s fees to award; (2) if section 21.259 of the Texas Labor Code1 authorized the trial court to deter

Plaintiffs-appellees Daniel Golodner and Security Technology Systems (“STS”) brought
suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the City of New London (“the City”) and two City
officials, defendants-appellants Martin Berliner and Robert Myers (“Appellants”), retaliated
against Golodner for exercising his rights under the First Amendment when he filed an earlier
lawsuit

Brendon Lydon believes that his union — Local 103 of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ("Local 103") —
runs its hiring hall in a discriminatory way, retaliated against
him for complaining about the discrimination, and breached its duty
of fair representation. So he sued Local 103 in district court,
alleging violations of several federal labor laws. Acting

Leon Kaplan sued his former employer, the City of Sugar Land, complaining of unlawful discrimination under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (the “Act” or “TCHRA”). Kaplan asserted a single claim of age discrimination in his original petition, but after the close of discovery, he amended his pleadings and added a claim of disability discrimination. The City filed a plea to the juris

In Lane v. Cent. Ala. Cmty. Coll., 523 Fed. Appx. 709 (11th Cir. 2013) (per curiam), we affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Steve Franks, former president of Central Alabama Community College (“CACC”), in Lane’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil action alleging retaliation in violation of the First Amendment. We concluded -- based on existing Eleventh Circuit preceden

11 Plaintiffs‐Appellees (the “plaintiffs”), two former and one
12 current female New Britain police officers, brought suit in the
13 United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against
14 the City of New Britain, its police department, the police union, and
15 five individual police supervisors under Title VII of the Civil Rights
16 Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.

Des Moines, IA - Kristine Sink sued the Iowa Department of Corrections on a civil rights violation theory claiming that she was sexually harassed after inmates were repeatedly allowed to watch sexually graphic and violent movies. She also claimed that she was retaliated against and discriminated against by Corrections officials after she complained.

Plaintiff claimed that she suffered em

Azin Lotfi sued her employer, Cheniere Energy, Inc., claiming her employment was wrongfully terminated. She also sued two of her co-workers, Charif Souki and Greg Rayford, for tortious interference with her employment at Cheniere.
In this accelerated appeal, Souki and Rayford challenge the trial court’s denial of their motion to dismiss the claims against them under Chapter 27 of the Civil P

In Lane v. Cent. Ala. Cmty. Coll., 523 Fed. Appx. 709 (11th Cir. 2013) (per curiam), we affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Steve Franks, former president of Central Alabama Community College (“CACC”), in Lane’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil action alleging retaliation in violation of the First Amendment. We concluded -- based on existing Eleventh Circuit preceden

Though clouded by an airline
disaster and claims of a government cover-up, this case ultimately
turns on a relatively straightforward question: must the
government release certain information? Plaintiff-Appellant Thomas
Stalcup brought this Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") suit
against the Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA"), seeking two
documents from an investigation i

In this appeal we consider, among other matters, whether
a school district’s failure to provide educational testing data
to parents violated the procedural requirements of the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C.
§§ 1400–1487 (“IDEA” or “Act”). We conclude that it did.
We also conclude that the failure to provide the data
prevented the parent

Carol Ann Davis appeals the order of civil commitment for extended inpatient mental health services. See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 46B.102(d) (West Supp. 2014); Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 574.035(a), (h) (West Supp. 2014). On January 16, 2014, after a hearing on the State’s application for civil commitment, the trial court signed an order of civil commitment for extended inpatient m

This is an appeal from an order terminating the parent child relationship between JDS and LS predicated upon Texas Family Code subsections 161.001(1)(D), (E), (O), and a finding that termination is in the best interest of the child. The final order appoints the Department as the child’s sole managing conservator. In eight issues1, JDS challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence

Appellant and Cross-Appellee, R. Scott Phelan, and Appellee and Cross-Appellant, H. Scott Norville, both appeal a judgment rendered in Phelan’s favor following a jury trial on Phelan’s assault and libel claims against Norville. The jury awarded Phelan a total monetary award of $590,000, consisting of $15,000 for physical pain/mental anguish as a result of the assault claim, $325,000 for past a

Lamenting the delays associated with the orderly processing of criminal cases,
Justice Macklin Fleming explained a popular way for a criminal defendant to avoid, or at
least delay trial: "sidetracking." He describes this as diverting "the inquiry into a
collateral issue. . . . In the operation of a railway system to sidetrack a train is to switch it
from the main line to a siding.