In this workers’ compensation case, claimant
seeks judicial review of a final order by the Director of the
Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS)
denying claimant’s request for attorney fees and penalties
against insurer, Liberty Northwest (Liberty). Claimant
sought sanctions after Liberty failed to timely deliver payment
on his workers’ compensation claim, whi

Auto insurers in Oregon must provide personal
injury protection (PIP) benefits to their insureds for certain
automotive injury-related expenses, regardless of who is at
fault in an accident. ORS 742.520(1). The PIP medical benefits
at issue in this case “consist of the following payments for
the injury or death of each person” covered: “All reasonable
and necessary expenses

The primary question in this case is whether the
Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits
Oregon to exercise general jurisdiction over an interstate
railroad for claims unrelated to the railroad’s activities in
this state. The trial court ruled that it could exercise general
jurisdiction over the railroad and denied the railroad’s
motion to dismiss plaintiff’s

The issue in this workers’ compensation case is
whether claimant is entitled to benefits for his “combined
condition” claim. Under ORS 656.005(7)(a)(B), a “combined
condition” exists when an “otherwise compensable injury”
combines with a preexisting condition, and the otherwise
compensable injury remains the major contributing cause
of that combined condition.1 In this case

San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Restaurant Owner Sentenced To Six Months In Halfway House For Concealing Facts About Employee Wages

Former Owner of Hong Kong Lounge Restaurants Failed to Pay Employee Overtime Wages and Lied to the Department of Labor After Being Caught

Ming Lian Zhou was sentenced six months in community confinement to be followed by another six months home det

In 2007 a fire spread from defendant Lambirth Trucking Company’s (Lambirth)
storage site to plaintiff Vincent Scholes’ property. Scholes’ third amended complaint
alleged negligent trespass, intentional trespass, and strict liability against Lambirth.
Lambirth demurred to the third amended complaint, arguing it was barred by the statute
of limitations and failed to state a viable cl

After their attempt to purchase a home was unsuccessful, appellees Daniel A. Haile and Wongelawit K. Alemu sued appellants Tamuno Ifiesimama (“Mr. Ifiesimama”) and Tamunnoibuomi Ifiesimama (“Mrs. Ifiesimama”), for specific
performance and breach of contract. The trial court held a bench trial and ultimately ruled in favor of Haile and Alemu, ordering that they recover costs, their earnest mone

This appeal presents for interpretation an indemnity provision in a construction
subcontract providing indemnity to a general contractor for injury claims arising out of
the scope of the subcontractor’s work “except to the extent the claims arise out of, pertain
to, or relate to the active negligence or willful misconduct” of the general contractor.
Does this provision preclude the

On July 7, 2015, Marco Gordon pled guilty to conspiracy
to possess with intent to distribute, and possession with intent
to distribute, more than 28 grams of cocaine base, see 21 U.S.C.
§§ 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(B), for his role in a drug
trafficking organization that operated primarily in Portland,
Maine from October 2013 to January 2015. He does not dispute that <

Houston, TX - Three Sentenced to Prison in Identity Theft and Illegal Employment Conspiracy

Two El Salvadorian nationals who were residing in Houston have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions on all counts related to a conspiracy to employ 10 or more unauthorized aliens within a 12-month period. A federal jury convicted Rudy Alexander Martinez, 36, and Israel Arquimi

Tulsa, OK - Jury Convicts Man of Felony Murder

The State of Oklahoma charged James Vasco Jones with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM11, MURDER - FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7
Date of Offense: 06/21/2015
Party Name Disposition Information
SMITH, VERNON LEEMOUNTEL Disposed: CONVICTION, 05/26/2016. Jury Trial
Count as Disposed: MURDER - FIRST DEGREE(

Lexington, KY - Winchester Man Sentenced To 24 Months For Illegally Hacking Into Website And Lying To Federal Agents

A Winchester, Ky., man, who previously admitted to hacking and taking control of a high school sports website, to gain publicity for his online identity and harass and intimidate the website owner and others, has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.

U.S.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion for new trial following a post-answer
default judgment. Because the defendant presented uncontroverted proof entitling him to relief, we
must reverse.
BACKGROUND
Appellant Bruce Hitt is a real-estate broker and investor who, at relevant times,
owned a San Angelo restaurant then known as the “Stillwater Bar & Grill.”1 In 2013, Hit

¶1 This appeal involves an action brought by Plaintiffs in Error to recover their proportionate share of the proceeds of a judgment rendered in an action for the wrongful death of their mother, Annie A. Coleman, Deceased, which was brought in the name of Otho Prellar Coleman, as administrator of the Estate of Annie A. Coleman, Deceased, and Otho Prellar Coleman, individually in his own right again

After 40 years of employment at Memorial Hermann hospital, Dr. Samia
Khalil sued Memorial Hermann Health System for defamation, tortious
interference with an existing contract, conspiracy, and intentional infliction of
emotional distress. Khalil, age 77, also sued for age discrimination. Memorial
2

Hermann sought to dismiss several of her claims under summary dismiss

Plaintiff is an electrical utility company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Compl. ¶ 1. It provides electrical services to both residential and commercial customers in Missouri and Kansas. Id. On or about August 19, 2005, the United States, acting through the General Services Administration (“GSA”), entered into a contract with plaintiff for the delivery of electrical utility services t

¶1 Prior to filing the condemnation proceedings the Appellee, Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT), offered the Appellants, Cedars Group, L.L.C., an Oklahoma limited liability company; Centoma, an Oklahoma limited partnership; A. Sam Coury (Coury); and Bush, Ltd. d/b/a Deer Creek Texaco, (collectively, Coury Defendants), $562,500.00 for the acquisition of certain real property. The offer w

Statesville, NC - Former Chairman Of The Board Of Payroll Services Company Sentenced To 30 Months For Conspiracy

Frank Alton Moody, II, 57, of Arden, N.C., the former Chairman of the Board of a payroll services company, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for conspiring to steal over $2 million from client companies, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western Distri

INTRODUCTION
Three health care workers sued their hospital employer in this putative class
and private attorney general enforcement action for alleged Labor Code violations and
related claims. In this appeal, their primary complaint is the hospital illegally allowed its
health care employees to waive their second meal periods on shifts longer than 12 hours.
A statute requires t

For want of a comma, we have
this case. It arises from a dispute between a Maine dairy
company and its delivery drivers, and it concerns the scope of
an exemption from Maine's overtime law. 26 M.R.S.A. § 664(3).
Specifically, if that exemption used a serial comma to mark off
the last of the activities that it lists, then the exemption
would clearly encompass an activity tha

Appellant Meredith King filed a petition for post-divorce division of property, alleging that the parties’ divorce decree failed to award or divide appellee Gilbert Dwayne King’s total retirement benefit. The case proceeded to trial before the court. After hearing evidence, the trial court granted Dwayne’s1 motion for judgment. In a single issue, Meredith contends the trial court erred by denying

Appellant, Michael Barnett, appeals from the trial court’s order granting appellee, City of Southside Place’s plea to the jurisdiction in his suit brought under the Texas Whistleblower Act. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. §§ 554.001–.010 (West
2
2012). In three issues, Barnett contends that the trial court erred in granting the
City’s plea because (1) the evidence raises a fact issue regardin