Around midnight, December 20, 2014, Officer Alfredo Delapaz noticed Luna driving
without a license plate on the front of his vehicle. Delapaz initiated a traffic stop for failure to
display a front-facing license plate. His dashboard camera recorded the encounter and was
admitted in evidence at the hearing. Delapaz testified he did not see a license plate anywhere on
the fro... More...   $0 (11-16-2017 - TX)

29 Plaintiff, Nick’s Garage, Inc. (“Garage” or “Plaintiff”), appeals from the
30 judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New
31 York (D’Agostino, J.) granting summary judgment in favor of the Defendants,
32 Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and related entities (collectively,
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the “Insurer”).1 1 Garage, an automobile repair shop, brought ... More...   $0 (11-12-2017 - NY)

The petitioners, former shareholders of Kay Company (“Kay Co.”) and Kay Co, LLC (“Kay LLC”),1 appeal from two orders2 entered by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County through which summary judgment was granted to the respondent McGuireWoods, LLP (“McGuireWoods” or “MW”) in connection with claims the petitioners filed against McGuireWoods, their former legal counsel.3 As grounds for their appeal, the... More...   $0 (11-09-2017 - WV)

On April 11, 2014, Jeardoe was driving a 2014 Chevrolet truck westbound on K18, a two-lane highway. At some point, Jeardoe moved into the eastbound lane, where he had a head-on collision with a 1998 Plymouth Neon driven by Emma Pisocki. Emma's father, Jason Pisocki, was in the passenger seat. Both Emma and Jason were killed in the accident. Following the accident, law enforcement observed that Jea... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - KS)

On March 17, 2012, Lieutenant Conrad Jacquez, with the Deming, New
7 Mexico Police Department, stopped Defendant’s vehicle in response to a tip advising
8 that a driver of a gray Ford Crown Victoria was driving erratically, indicating a
9 possible drunk or reckless driver. Lieutenant Jacquez requested Defendant’s driver’s
10 license, registration, and insurance. Defendant handed L... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - NM)

On January 12, 2016, Aurora Police Department (APD) Officer Darren Martinez
spoke with Sampson at the Medical Center of Aurora. Officer Martinez was dispatched
to the hospital on a report that a stabbing victim had walked into the emergency room.
Sampson told Officer Martinez someone on the street had stabbed him while trying to
rob him, and a good Samaritan drove him to the ... More...   $0 (11-03-2017 - CO)

Tammy Fernandes successfully sued vexatious litigant Raj Singh and his wife
Kiran Rawat individually and as trustees of the Sita Ram--or “Sitaram”--Trust (Trust), for
wrongful eviction and related claims. She obtained an award of compensatory and
punitive damages, as well as costs and attorney fees. All defendants filed a joint notice of
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appeal through counsel. While Rawat a... More...   $0 (11-03-2017 - CA)

¶ 1 This case is before us on a certified question from the federal
district court. We are asked to examine the terms of Utah Code section
31A-22-305.3. The question presented is whether this provision requires
that all vehicles covered under the liability provisions of an automobile
insurance policy must also be covered under the underinsured motorist
provisions of that policy... More...   $0 (10-30-2017 - UT)

In this case we are called upon to decide whether the Establishment Clause is violated when a local government displays and maintains on public property a 40-foot tall Latin cross, established in memory of soldiers who died in World War I. The district court determined that such government action does not run afoul of the Establishment Clause because the cross has a secular purpose, it neither adv... More...   $0 (10-24-2017 - MD)

Plaintiff and appellant Paul Kendall's second amended complaint asserts several
types of class-wide claims that challenge the billing and collection practices of the health
facility operating an emergency room where he received care, defendant and respondent
Scripps Health (Scripps). As relevant here, Kendall seeks declaratory relief on contract
interpretation theories, and remedi... More...   $0 (10-24-2017 - CA)

Larned, KS - Jury Finds Man Guilty of Kidnapping and Child Endangerment

The State of Oklahoma charged Zachary Hutchens, age 20, with kidnapping and child endangerment for forcing the 17-year-old woman, with whom he had a troubled relationship that had ended, into his car and prevented from getting out of the vehicle by hitting her and pulling her hair. The woman signaled a motorist that s... More...   $0 (10-13-2017 - KS)

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... More...   $0 (10-11-2017 - CA)

The trial in this case offers two narratives. One of a hardworking man
who, angered by failures of guardrails installed across the United States—with
sometimes devastating consequences—persuaded a Texas jury of a concealed
cause of those failures. The other of the inventive genius of professors at Texas
A&M’s Transportation Institute, who, over many years of study and testing,
... More...   $0 (10-04-2017 - TX)

Plaintiff‐Appellee Gregory A. Grice, III, a 16 year old train enthusiast, was
stopped and handcuffed after the Greenburgh Police Department received a 911
report that someone holding an electronic device was bending down by the
tracks at a rail crossing. After a search of the tracks by the Metropolitan Transit
Authority (“MTA”), the Greenburgh officers turned Grice over to th... More...   $0 (10-03-2017 - NY)

Amanda Bujnoch was a passenger in a vehicle that slid off the roadway and
rolled over after the vehicle encountered some oil-based mud cuttings. Amanda was
ejected from the vehicle and killed. National Oilwell Varco, L.P (NOV) had loaded
the mud into an open-top dump trailer that
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company (Big Red). Neither Big Red nor NOV ensured that the truckload of mud
had been secured... More...   $0 (09-23-2017 - TX)

¶1 After leaving an event at Peery’s Egyptian Theater late in the evening on February 16, 2013, Rose Flygare, Marjorie Bell, and a minor child (collectively, Plaintiffs1) were hit by a truck
1. Rose Flygare died during the pendency of this case and her estate was substituted as a plaintiff. Richard and Jennifer Pratt brought this action on behalf of the minor child. For ease of (continued…)More...   $0 (09-13-2017 - UT)

The plaintiff, James Dever, appeals from an
order allowing the defendants' special motion to dismiss his
amended complaint under the "anti-SLAPP" statute. See G. L.
1 Daniel Rabinovitz; Michaels, Ward & Rabinovitz, LLP;
Daniel Michael Joyce; Moors & Cabot Investments, Inc.; and Aaron
Foley.
2
c. 231, § 59H, inserted by St. 1994, c. 283, § 1. Although we
conclude tha... More...   $0 (09-11-2017 - MA)

Plaintiffs ask us to declare a constitutional right to
"aid-in-dying," which they define (and we refer to herein) as the
right of a mentally competent and terminally ill person to obtain
a prescription for a lethal dosage of drugs from a physician, to
be taken at some point to cause death. Although New York has
long recognized a competent adult's right to forgo life-saving
... More...   $0 (09-08-2017 - NY)

David Martin sues his former employer, Gonzaga University, for
discharge in employment in violation of public policy and for a violation of a statute
allowing an employee access to his personnel file. We affirm a summary judgment
dismissal of the wrongful discharge claim. Martin fails to present evidence to support the
fourth element of the claim, that element being the absence of ... More...   $0 (09-07-2017 - WA)

[¶1] In January 2014, Timothy Austin Davison, who was known as Asti,
was fatally shot while operating a vehicle that an assailant, operating another
vehicle, had forced onto a median on an interstate highway. Asti’s parents,
Theresa L. Allocca and Timothy Allen Davison, filed this action in their
individual capacities, and Davison also filed as personal representative of the
Es... More...   $0 (08-31-2017 - ME)

Boise, ID - Jury Awards Idaho Accident Investigator $1.5 Million

Brandon Eller sued the Idaho State Police on a Whistleblower Act violation and retaliation theory claiming that he was retaliated against by his employer for raising concerns about the investigation of a fatal accident involving an Idaho Sheriff's deputy. He claimed that the ISP managers took actions against him for claimin... More...   $1500000 (08-30-2017 - )

In this interlocutory appeal,1 appellant, the City of Houston (the “City”), challenges the trial court’s order denying its plea to the jurisdiction in the suit by appellees, Frank Nicolai and Debora Nicolai, as parents of Caroline Nicolai, deceased (the “Nicolais”), against the City for negligence and wrongful death.2 In its sole issue,3 the City contends that the trial court lacks subject-matter ... More...   $0 (08-25-2017 - TX)

[¶1] Ryan Turner drove his car up over a sidewalk median in Waterville
and drew the attention of a Winslow police officer who had just stopped
another driver, coming across the bridge into Waterville, for a traffic
infraction that had occurred in Winslow. After Turner careened onward, he
pulled into a parking lot and stopped his car. The Winslow officer stopped
what he was doin... More...   $0 (08-22-2017 - ME)

The underlying action is an automobile negligence action filed by Jessica
Y. Choi against alleged tortfeasor Haley P. Beutler and Choi's underinsured motorist
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(UM) insurance carrier, Auto-Owners Insurance Company. Choi seeks certiorari review
of an order granting Auto-Owners' motion to sever the causes of action against the two
defendants. We conclude that because all thr... More...   $0 (08-16-2017 - fl)