Nashville, TN - Wendell Young, 34, of Inglewood, Calif., Adrian Franklin, 40, of Chandler, Arizona, Francisco DeLaRosa, 42, of West Covina, Calif. and Tracey Young, 46, of Los Angeles, have been sentenced by United States District Court Judge William Haynes for their participation in a money laundering scheme to defraud Nissan, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tenne... More...   $0 (06-13-2014 - TN)

¶1 Defendant/Appellant Joe Coffman appeals from a judgment directing that a road through his property must be kept open as a public road until officially vacated by the county and enjoining Coffman from preventing Plaintiff/Appellee Joe Corbett from using the road. The record shows that although the road was occasionally gated, it remained in use and therefore had not been abandoned. The trial co... More...   $0 (06-11-2014 - OK)

Andy Inman v. Jennie Shell, Full Blood Cherokee Roll No. 27189, et al.

Issue # 1.
Issue: QUIET TITLE (QUIET)
Filed by: INMAN, ANDY
Filed Date: 04/11/2014
Party Name: Disposition Information:

Plaintiff: INMAN, ANDY
Disposed: JUDGEMENT ENTERED, 06/10/2014. Judge.

Plaintiff: INMAN, DALANA
Disposed: JUDGEMENT ENTERED, 06/10/2014. Judge.
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After pleading guilty to the felony offense of false reporting, a former client sued the law firm that had represented him, asserting a claim for breach of contract and seeking forfeiture of attorney’s fees based on alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the law firm based on

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the grounds that (1) the contract claim, which was base... More...   $0 (06-10-2014 - TX)

John Erlach (appellant) appeals from a judgment of dismissal of his complaint against Sierra Asset Servicing LLC (Sierra) entered after the trial court sustained Sierra's demurrer without leave to amend. Appellant contends that it was error for the trial court to determine that his residential lease was void and that he was a squatter with no legal rights because a code enforcement notice (red tag... More...   $0 (06-10-2014 - CA)

City Direct Motor Car, Inc. and its president, Mahdi Mohammadaghaei (collectively, “City Direct�), appeal the trial court’s judgment in favor of Expo Motorcars, L.L.C. on Expo Motorcars’s claims for breach of implied warranty of title, negligent misrepresentation, and fraud. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

BACKGROUND

Expo Motorcars agreed to purchase a 2008 Mercedes S... More...   $0 (06-05-2014 - TX)

The class action is an ingenious procedural innovation that enables persons who have suf-fered a wrongful injury, but are too numerous for joinder of their claims alleging the same wrong committed by the same defendant or defendants to be feasible, to obtain relief as a group, a class as it is called. The device is especially im-portant when each claim is too small to justify the expense of a sepa... More...   $0 (06-02-2014 - IL)

Santino Aguirre, Brenda Echavarria, and Leroy Aguirre (Appellants) appeal from the trial court’s take-nothing summary judgment in favor of Scott S. Aguirre and Irma S. Aguirre (Appellees). We reverse and remand.

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Background

On September 20, 2011, Appellants brought suit against Appellees.1 Santino, Brenda, Leroy, and Scott are siblings. Their mother is Lydia Aguirre.
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By three issues, appellant, Iglesia Cristiana Cristo Vive, Inc., appeals from a verdict in favor of appellees, Church of God of the Apostolic Faith Latin Conference, Inc. (“Church of God�) and Pablo Sanchez. We affirm.

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I. BACKGROUND

Rebecca Robles testified that she served as secretary of a church named the Centro De Adoracion Hosanna (“Hosannaâ€�) with the Reverend Hi... More...   $0 (05-29-2014 - TX)

Kelly Ashworth Stovall, Appellant, appeals the final judgment entered by the assigned statutory probate judge, the Honorable Robert E. Price, who construed the Last Will and Testament of J.L. Beasley. Judge Price held that J.L. intended to give Appellant 80 acres located on the east side of the western half of the 320-acre tract of land, but not the house or barn located on the 320-acre tract. App... More...   $0 (05-22-2014 - TX)

This is the second appeal in a case involving a claim under a homeowner’s policy issued by Appellant Farmers Insurance Exchange, a Farmers Insurance Group entity (Farmers), to Appellee Tammy Poteet for damages allegedly caused by a November 2002 discharge of black smoke and soot from the central heating and air-conditioning system of a home she had recently purchased from

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Roger a... More...   $0 (05-22-2014 - CA)

In this case, appellee Bruce W. Derrick brought suit against appellant Moon Sun (Casey) Kang, and appellants Kathleen (Katie) Lee and Sang Pil (Scott) Lee (the “Leesâ€�) for breach of a commercial lease agreement (the “Leaseâ€�). Kang and the Lees brought assorted counterclaims and alleged various affirmative defenses. Derrick moved for no-evidence summary judgment as to Kang’s and the Leesâ... More...   $0 (05-15-2014 - TX)

In this construction dispute, a builder appeals the trial court’s order denying its motion to compel arbitration against the building’s owners. The builder contends that the trial court erred in finding that the builder had waived enforcement of an arbitration clause by invoking the judicial process and delaying its effort to compel arbitration for more than a year. Finding no error, we affirm... More...   $0 (05-15-2014 - TX)

¶ 1 Southern Management Corporation Retirement Trust (SMCRT) seeks review of the district court’s grant of summary
* The court has added ¶ 61 and altered ¶ 62 to address appellees’ request for attorney fees on appeal.
DILLON v. SOUTHERN MANAGEMENT
Opinion of the Court
judgment in favor of Douglas C. and Molly R. Dillon. The district court determined that the trust deed encum... More...   $0 (05-13-2014 - UT)

The plaintiff, Roy Eckhardt,1 appeals the judgment of the district court dismissing his claims again Wyeth and Schwarz Pharma (together, the “Brand Defendants�) under Rule 12(b)(6) and granting summary judgment to

1 Although both Roy and Yolanda Eckhardt are plaintiffs in this case, this opinion will treat Roy Eckhardt as the sole plaintiff because all of the claims before us arise ou... More...   $0 (05-13-2014 - TX)

Appellants, Juan Jesus Cantu and Maria Yolanda Cantu, complain in this appeal of a November 30, 2009 order granting summary judgment in favor of appellees, Zar-Mat

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Properties, a Texas General Partnership, Jose Ruben Mata, and Zaragosa Hinojosa, Jr. (collectively Zar-Mat), on the Cantus’ claims that Zar-Mat violated the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) by failing to provide them with t... More...   $0 (05-08-2014 - TX)

At the conclusion of a bench trial, Millard obtained a money judgment against an entity with which Millard contracted to buy business assets and assume a commercial lease. Millard appeals the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict in favor of Jerald and Angela Henry—who own the entity against whom judgment

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was entered—on the issue of their individual liability. In one issu... More...   $0 (05-08-2014 - TX)

This is an appeal from a post-answer default judgment rendered against attorney Bruce B. McLeod III on Alfred Gyr’s claims for deceptive trade practices and breach of fiduciary duty. McLeod raises four issues on appeal challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment, the trial court’s order denying his motion for new trial, and the trial court’s order reinstating the case... More...   $0 (05-05-2014 - TX)

These consolidated appeals arise out of a protracted dispute between Stewart and Marla Feldman and Tanglewood Homes Association, Inc. over the Feldmans’ desire to expand their home. When the Association rejected the Feldmans’ expansion plans as a violation of the Tanglewood Deed Restrictions, the Feldmans filed suit. Michael T. Kelly, the trustee for a trust that owned the adjacent lot, interv... More...   $0 (05-02-2014 - tx)

This case began with a prosaic dispute. John and Dawn Ertz (collectively the Ertzes) purchased a motor home from retailer Mega RV Corporation (Mega RV). Citing alleged defects in the motor home, the Ertzes sued Mega RV, Country Coach, L.L.C. (Country Coach; the manufacturer of the motor home), and Bank of America, N.A. (Bank of America; the financier of the transaction) under the Song-Beverly Cons... More...   $0 (04-30-2014 - CA)

This appeal arises from a lawsuit between the buyer and seller of a home. The buyer, Aaron Sisk, sued Miramar Development Corporation and its president, John Hawkins (the Sellers), before subsequently nonsuiting his claims without prejudice. On competing motions for summary judgment, the trial court determined the Sellers were not “prevailingâ€� parties and thus not entitled to an award of attor... More...   $0 (04-27-2014 - TX)

Robert James Henry appeals the district court’s final decree of divorce along with various rulings in the underlying suit filed by Gay Nell Henry (Jones).1 Henry argues that the district court erred by characterizing certain real property as community property, awarding personal property to the parties in possession of same, voiding a gift warranty deed, denying disqualification and recusal moti... More...   $0 (04-18-2014 - TX)

In this appeal, we are asked to extend the sole-proximate-cause bar to legal-malpractice claims arising in the context of a contempt order entered in a civil case. We decline to do so and reverse the trial court’s order granting Appellees a partial summary judgment and remand the case to the trial court for further proceedings.


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I. BACKGROUND

A. DIVORCE ACTION AND CONTE... More...   $0 (04-17-2014 - TX)

Appellants2 own properties in Lake Country Estates, an addition in Tarrant County. They sued Appellee Lake Country Property Owners Association, Inc. (LCPOA) because it “attempt[ed] to enforce [an] invalid restriction against them.â€� The trial court granted LCPOA’s motion for summary judgment. Appellants now appeal. We will affirm. In February 1971, the Amon G. Carter Foundation conveyed by wa... More...   $0 (04-17-2014 - TX)

These appeals arise out of claims against both generic and brand-name manufacturers for injuries related to use of the drug metoclopramide (brandname Reglan). Because the pertinent facts and legal issues of these cases are nearly identical, we consolidate them for disposition.

In case No. 12-60861, Lashley v. Pfizer, et al., Appellant Walter Lashley (“Lashleyâ€�) appeals the Southern Dist... More...   $0 (04-17-2014 - )