Great Plains of Kiowa County, Inc., (Great Plains) appeals from a judgment holding it subject to the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) and compelling it to provide records requested by the State of Kansas through the Kiowa County Commission.

Kiowa County Memorial Hospital (Hospital) in Greensburg, Kansas, is a hospital organized and operated under K.S.A. 19-4601 et seq. The Hospital is man

Jane Doe's insurer, Harvard
Pilgrim Health Care ("HPHC"), deemed part of the time Doe spent at
a mental health residential treatment facility not medically
necessary under the health care benefits plan established by the
employer of Doe's parent. HPHC therefore denied coverage for that
portion of the treatment. After several unsuccessful
administrative appeals, Doe sued HPH

This appeal challenges the trial court’s denial of a special motion to strike
pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, the anti-SLAPP statute,1 directed at a
cross-complaint asserting causes of action arising from a civil enforcement action
brought by Feather River Air Quality Management District against Harmun Takhar for
multiple violations of state and local air pollut

Almost twenty years ago, a jury convicted Mr. Prade for the aggravated murder of
his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade. In 2013, a trial court found him actually innocent due, in large
part, to new DNA evidence. The court granted Mr. Prade’s motion for post-conviction relief, but
also found that he was entitled to a new trial “should [its] order granting post-conviction relief be
over

This case arises out of the foreclosure of a home-equity conversion
mortgage—commonly called a “reverse mortgage.” We are asked to interpret a
federal statute, 12 U.S.C. § 1715z-20, which authorizes the Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a mortgage-insurance
program designed to encourage lenders to offer reverse mortgages and thereby
allev

Cheryl Searcy (“Plaintiff”) sued the defendants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Inc. (together, “Defendants”) for unintentional and intentional torts arising from the death of her mother, Carol Lasard, alleging that Lasard’s illnesses were caused by her addiction to cigarettes manufactured by Defendants. The jury found for Plaintiff on both the unintentional and intentional tort c

This case requires us to consider the boundaries of “payment based wholly on service as a member of a uniformed service” for the purposes of Social Security benefit calculations. We agree with the Social Security Administration’s interpretation, and affirm the district court’s decision.
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Donald Larry Martin appeals from the Social Security Administration (SSA)’s decision to reduce his mo

This appeal concerns an assigned claim on a liability-insurance policy. Belsen
Getty, LLC, a registered investment adviser owned by Terry Deru, obtained a claimsmade
financial-services-liability policy (the Policy) from XL Specialty Insurance
Company covering Belsen Getty and its advisers for the period from October 9, 2010, to
October 9, 2011. Under the policy, XL had no duty to d

Georage's appeal stems from his convictions in two criminal cases—16CR149 and 16CR311. In February 2016, the State charged Georage in 16CR149 with one count each of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, attempted aggravated kidnapping, and battery. In March 2016, the State charged Georage in 16CR311 with three counts each of forgery and theft by deception. We consolidated the

This appeal requires us to decide whether a variety of
state-law claims brought against the National Football
League (NFL) by former professional football players are
preempted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act
(LMRA), 29 U.S.C. § 141.
The district court held that the players’ claims are
preempted and dismissed their suit. We disagree. As pled,
the players’

A defendant that timely asserts that the district court lacks
personal jurisdiction and litigates the issue to an adverse
decision from the district court does not waive the personal
jurisdiction defense by vigorously litigating defenses to the
merits, including by asserting counterclaims against other
parties. Emirates NBD Bank PJSC (the “Bank”) was entitled
to litigate it

The appellants (landowners) own eight lots in an area of
Rancho Palos Verdes that is the subject of a 1978 building
moratorium based on the resurgence of an ancient landslide.1 In
the trial court, the landowners sought relief from the building
moratorium and damages for inverse condemnation primarily on
the basis of our opinion in Monks v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes
(2008)

David Matusiewicz1 and Christine Belford were married from 2001 to 2006, during which time they had three children, L.M.1, L.M.2, and K.M.1 (the “children”). The couple and their children also lived with Belford’s one child from a previous marriage, K.M.2.2 After their divorce, Belford and David engaged in a bitter custody dispute, during which David accused Belford of being an unfit mother and

In December 2016, the Montgomery County Grand Jury charged the defendant with one count of simple possession of marijuana, one count of possession of drug paraphernalia, one count of driving a motor vehicle without two operable tail lights, and violation of the registration law. At the May 16, 2017 jury trial, Clarksville Police Department Officer Holden Hudgin testified that on February 28, 2016,

Albuquerque, NM - East Mountain Family Practice Doctor Pays $300,000 to Resolve Alleged False Claims to Federal Healthcare Programs for Services Rendered While Out of Country

Settlement also Resolves Alleged Violations of Controlled Substances Act Relating to Signed, but Otherwise Blank, Prescriptions Available for Use While Out of the Country

Orrin K. McLeod, D.O., a family prac

The Employer and Carrier in this workers’ compensation case appeal an order awarding temporary disability benefits after the Judge of Compensation Claims found that Claimant Viviana Llanes Rodriguez’s refusal to accept suitable employment offered by her employer was justifiable under § 440.15(6), Florida Statutes.

Ray Haynes was employed as an as-sistant professor in the Department of Education at Indiana University. At the end of his six-year probationary contract, he lost his bid for tenure. Haynes, who is black, alleges that the University denied his tenure application because of his race in violation of federal law. The district judge entered summary judgment for the University and we affirm. The judge’

Davis, who worked for Remington Arms Company (Remington), slipped and fell on her hands and knees when she was at work on April 22, 2016. Remington paid medical benefits for treatment of Davis’s compensable injuries to her right arm and left knee.

2 When Davis later claimed injuries to her thumbs and lumbar spine from the fall, Remington controverted those claims. At a hearing

This case involves a dispute over retiree healthcare benefits. Retired union member Ronald Cup and similarly situated retirees requested—and the District Court ordered—arbitration of the dispute under the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), 29 U.S.C. § 185. Ampco Pittsburgh Corporation, its subsidiary Akers National Roll Company, and Akers’ health and welfare benefit plan (collectively, the Com

The Hayes family receives enhanced voucher rental
assistance from the federal government, and a federal statute
provides that enhanced voucher holders “may elect to remain”
in their housing developments, even after their landlord has
opted out of the federal housing assistance program. 42 U.S.C.
§ 1437f(t)(1)(B). But the Hayes family’s landlord, Appellee
Philip Harvey, cont

This case presents the question of whether a plaintiff who brings a representative
action under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA; Lab. Code, § 2698,
et seq.) may seek penalties not only for the Labor Code violation that affected him or her,
but also for different violations that affected other employees. The trial court granted
plaintiff Forrest Huff a new trial, rea

Whitesell is in the business of manufacturing and distributing engineered,
specialty, and standard components and parts used in various industries,
including in the assembly and manufacture of automobiles.2 Autoform is in the
business of manufacturing components used in the assembly and manufacture
of automobiles. Autoform uses injector cups supplied by Whitesell to produce <

The City hired Wernert as a police officer in 2010. He suffered a serious knee injury on the job in February 2011 when he slipped and fell on an icy street while directing traffic. Wernert’s treating physician determined that he suffered permanent impairment as a result of the injury. Wernert contends that his injury is continuing in nature and that it substantially limits his ability to run, j

Although an in-depth examination of oil-and-gas principles is not necessary to resolve the merits of this appeal, we pause briefly to define the various rights at issue in a mineral estate so as to ground our subsequent discussion and provide context as to what rights the McDaniels purportedly believed they were conveying, and what rights may have actually been conveyed in the agreement the Mc