Wendy Younger purchased the lot at issue in the Montana Vista area in 1997. She purchased the property as part of an agreement between the Paso View Christian Association and the Montana Vista Volunteer Fire Department. Due to a rash of fires and resulting property loss in the area, the Association donated two lots on Kyle Road to the Fire Department in exchange for the department building a

A large law firm agreed to represent a manufacturing company in a federal
qui tam action brought on behalf of a number of public entities. During the same
time period, the law firm represented one of these public entities in matters
unrelated to the qui tam suit. Both clients had executed engagement agreements
that purported to waive all such conflicts of interest, current or futur

Washington, DC - The United States of America charged W. Samuel Patten with:

22:612 and 618(a)(1); REGISTRATION STATEMENT: FILING OF OR CONTENTS OF; Foreign Agents Registration Act.
(1)

§612. Registration statement
(a) Filing; contents

No person shall act as an agent of a foreign principal unless he has filed with the Attorney General a true and complete registr

Anna Moses, the decedent, grew up in Russia and moved to the United States after meeting appellant. Appellant and Anna married and appellant treated Anna’s young son, Igor, as his own. Anna was described as a beautiful, elegant woman who cared deeply for her family and friends. Although the couple seemed to have a happy marriage, several of Anna’s friends described appellant as controlling.

On August 19, 2012, Vickie Cook found her thirty-two year old daughter, Deanna, dead in the bathtub of Deanna’s home.3 The medical examiner who conducted the autopsy concluded that Deanna’s death was caused by drowning and other homicidal violence. Suspicion immediately focused on appellant with whom Deanna had been in a tumultuous, volatile, and often violent relationship since 2008. He was

M.P. testified that, in 2006, she lived a double life as a registered nurse specializing in pediatrics and as a “closet user of crack cocaine.” She worked Monday through Thursday, and over the long weekends, on holidays, on her birthday, or when she had time off work, she would go on three-or-four-day drug binges. During these binges, M.P. would buy a large quantity of crack cocaine and use i

On the morning of February 19, 2015, Wykesha Reid was found dead lying on a table in a room inside a salon at 3815 East Side Avenue, near the Deep Ellum area of Dallas. Reid was found by “Alicia,” who called 9-1-1. Investigation revealed that Reid had received silicone injections in her buttocks probably between four and eighteen hours before the body was found. Some of the silicone had enter

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services removed the son of Graves and his girlfriend, Equila Davis, immediately after his birth due to concerns that Davis had used marihuana during her pregnancy. Shortly after the baby was removed from their care, Graves and Davis arrived at a Department office for visitation. Whitney Aguirre was in charge of supervising the visit, Caryl Beimer wa

DOS is a technology company that provides digital imaging solutions, along with general information technology services, in and around Sedgwick County, Kansas. DOS is also a licensed dealer and servicer for Ricoh and Konica Minolta, two companies that manufacture copiers and related office equipment. DOS's authorization as a dealer and servicer is limited to nine Kansas counties.

Bleie

Shortly before 10p.m. on January21, 2016, Greg Fryberger, an employee of
MDOT, finished clearing snow berms with a front-end loader on an intersection of U.S.
Highway 93.1 He was working about ten miles north of the MDOT shop where the
loader normally was kept. After finishing his work, Fryberger began driving back to the
MDOT shop to return the loader. It was five hours af

Matthew Durham appeals his convictions and sentence on four counts for illicit
sex with minors in Kenya after travelling there from the United States. This opinion
addresses the following eight issues presented for appellate review.
1. Is 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c), the statute on which the convictions
were based, unconstitutional on its face and as applied to Mr.
Durham because it ex

Roberto Martinez, Lisa Saldana, Craig Eriksen and Chanel
Rankin-Stephens (collectively Martinez parties) sued Crab
Addison, Inc., Ignite Restaurant Group, Inc. (formerly known as
Joe’s Crab Shack Holdings, Inc.) and Landry’s Restaurants, Inc.
on behalf of a putative class of salaried employees of Joe’s Crab
Shack restaurants in California who were allegedly misclassified
as

Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against International Law Firm

The Justice Department today announced that it reached a settlement agreement with Clifford Chance US LLP, a large, international law firm with its U.S. headquarters located in New York. This agreement resolves the Department’s investigation into whether the law firm engaged in hiring discri

For more than half a century, Caterpillar Inc. paid unemployment benefits to laid-off em-ployees at its manufacturing plant in Joliet, Illinois. This ar-rangement lasted until Caterpillar and the local union agreed to end the program in their 2012 collective-bargaining agree-ment. In exchange for the elimination of the benefits, Cater-pillar distributed $7.8 million to certain employees who had pa

The Cook County jail took books away from Koger while serving a jail sentence given to him by Lyons and did not return During 2013, while Gregory Koger was serving a 300-day sentence in Cook County Jail, Barbara Lyons sent him at least ten books, plus some maga- zines and newspapers. Lyons and Koger contend in this suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 that the Jail violated the First Amendment (applied to t

The theme of this constitutional
suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 is that the Sheriff of Cook
County, Illinois, did not do enough to prevent guards and
other public employees from stealing or losing the belongings
of inmates at the Cook County Jail. New arrivals must
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surrender their possessions. There is no doubt that theft of
these belongings is a crime and a t

Following a trial, the probate court approved, subject to a $93,036.75 surcharge,
the first and final account and report of trustee (First Report), filed by Melodie Z. Scott
(Trustee), trustee of The A’Yana McDonald Special Needs Trust (the trust). (Prob. Code, §§ 1061-1064.)1
Trustee raises three issues on appeal. First, Trustee contends
the probate court did not apply the correct

Plaintiff Jena McClellan brought suit against her former employer to enforce her rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k), and the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d). The district court granted summary judgment for Defendant on the grounds that Plaintiff’s federal claims were barred by the

Following a trial, the probate court approved, subject to a $93,036.75 surcharge,
the first and final account and report of trustee (First Report), filed by Melodie Z. Scott
(Trustee), trustee of The A’Yana McDonald Special Needs Trust (the trust). (Prob.
2
Code, §§ 1061-1064.)1
Trustee raises three issues on appeal. First, Trustee contends
the probate court did not apply

We focus on the allegations relevant to the issue on appeal. Cortese is the
biological daughter of Francesca, and the stepdaughter of Robert, both of whom are
deceased. Over the course of Francesca’s and Robert’s 23-year marriage, they “acquired
an enormous amount of wealth.” Sherwood “attended to all of their legal matters under
Robert’s direction. As their estate planning attorne

Evidence at trial showed that Crenan was the owner of C4 Cattle, Inc. and an “order
buyer” for the Ty Jones Cattle Company. As an order buyer, he brokered the sale of cattle by filling
orders. Generally, Crenan would find cattle from a rancher and make an offer to buy the cattle on
behalf of a feedlot. Crenan would then ship the cattle from the rancher, receive the cattle at Ty Jone

Several years after a tank car spill accident, Larry D. Lincoln and Brad C.
Mosbrucker (collectively “Appellants”) advised BNSF Railway Company (“BNSF”)
that medical conditions attributable to the accident rendered them partially,
permanently disabled and prevented them from working outdoors. Upon learning of
Appellants’ alleged medical conditions, BNSF removed Appellants from serv

Missoula, MT - Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Concealing Assets During His Bankruptcy

Randall Alan Franz, a 59-year-old resident of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced on Thursday to 8 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $205,084.79 in restitution after pleading guilty to concealing assets in bankruptcy. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana Christ

Washington public school teachers Mickey Fowler and Leisa Maurer bring this class action to order the Director of the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems (“DRS”) to return interest that was allegedly skimmed from their state-managed retirement accounts. The district court denied the stipulated motion to certify a class and then dismissed the action as prudentially unripe. We conclude

Billington worked as a heavy equipment operator for Midwest Minerals. In January 2015, he had a disagreement with Chapman. Chapman picked Billington up and "tossed [him] on a bunch of rocks," where Billington landed on the back side of his ribs. Billington suffered a rib injury and a punctured lung. The injuries sustained required "extensive treatment" which included chest surgery and the excision