New York, NY - Gretchen Carlson Settles Sexual Harassment Claims Against Roger Ailes

Former Fox News anchor sued former Fox News Executive Roger Ailes on an employment discrimination theory under 42 U.S.C. 2000e claiming that he created a hostile work environment by sexually harassing her at Fox News claiming that she was repeatedly sexually harassed by him and demoted when she refused

The facts of this case, as presented by the State, begin simply enough:
defendant went to use the bathroom in her home for a few minutes, and her toddler,
Mercadiez, tragically managed to fall into their outdoor pool and drown. The
complexity of this case arises from the fact that about two years before, defendant
was babysitting another child, Sadie Gates, who got out of the

Russell County 911 dispatch received a call reporting a black Camaro
passed them at a high rate of speed and appeared to have entered Twin Creek
Estates, a sparsely populated residential development in a rural area. Sheriffs
Deputy Nick Bertram' was dispatched to investigate. Roughly twenty minutes
after the 911 call, Deputy Bertram turned onto Wooldridge School House Road

The defendant, David Aldrich, appeals his conviction, following a jury trial in Superior Court (MacLeod, J.), on two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault. See RSA 632-A:2, I(j) (2007). The defendant challenges the trial court’s ruling preventing him from crossexamining the victim about three of four allegedly false allegations of sexual assault that she had made against other men. He a

Dallas, TX - Former Senior Claims Examiner at DOL Worker’s Compensation Office in Dallas Sentenced to 15 Months in Federal Prison for Taking Bribes

Part of Massive Health Care Fraud Scheme to Fraudulently Bill the Federal Government, Through DOL/OWCP, More Than $9.5 Million

Perry Rowell, 56, a former Senior Claims Examiner at the Department of Labor’s Office of Worker’s Compensat

Chicago, IL - Former City of Chicago Transportation Official Sentenced to Ten Years for Corruption in Awarding of Red-Light Camera Contracts

The former assistant transportation commissioner for the city of Chicago was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for his role in a corruption scheme involving the city’s red-light camera contracts.

A jury in January convicted JOHN BILLS

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Tiffany Dawn Watterson with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABDGR, DOMESTIC ASSAULT OR ASSAUTL AND BATTERY WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON, in violation of 21 O.S. 644D1
Date of Offense: 04/27/2014

Party Name

Disposition Information

Watterson, Tiffany Dawn Disposed: DISMISSED, 06/13/2014. Dismissed- Prosecution Witness Failed

In January of 2009, Noice was conducting a BNSF train traveling from Clovis
4 to Belen. The train was pulled by four locomotives. At some point around 6:00 p.m.,
5 Noice ceded operation of the train to his assistant, John Royal. Noice exited the lead
6 locomotive and proceeded rearwards. Before leaving the lead locomotive, however,
7 Noice instructed Royal to “start pulling o

Philadelphia, PA - Doctors and Medical Facilities in Lehigh Valley Pay $690,441 to Resolve Healthcare Fraud Allegations

Dr. Yasin Khan, Dr. Elizabeth Khan, Dr. Dong Ko, Westfield Hospital and affiliated entities including a related pain clinic, Lehigh Valley Pain Management, have agreed to pay $690,441 to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Ac

Plaintiffs are a putative class
of unionized nurses who sued their employer in state court for
unpaid wages and overtime pay for work performed outside their
approved shifts. Their employer removed the case to federal court,
citing the doctrine of complete preemption, under which claims
requiring interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement
("CBA") are reclass

The United States appeals its liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) for a portion of the cost of cleaning up hazardous substances at three California facilities owned by Lockheed Martin (Lockheed or the Company). The government’s involvement at the facilities dates to the Cold War, when the Department of Defense contracted with Lockheed

The plaintiffs are severely disabled California residents. They alleged that “[c]onventional medical services, drugs and medications” have not alleviated the pain caused by their

impairments. Each of them has therefore “obtained a recom- mendation from a medical doctor” to use marijuana to treat her pain. This medical marijuana use is permissible under California law, see Cal. He

¶ 1 Pursuant to Section I, Paragraph 3(d)(v), Montana Supreme Court 1996 Internal Operating Rules, as amended in 2003, the following memorandum decision shall not becited as precedent. It shall be filed as a public document with the Clerk of the Supreme Court and its case title, Supreme Court cause number and disposition shall be included in this Court's quarterly list of noncitable cases publishe

In 1998, the people of Washington exercised their constitutional power to enact legislation by initiative when they adopted the Washington State Medical Use of Marijuana Act (MUMA), chapter 69.51A RCW. MUMA provided an affirmative defense against criminal prosecution of physicians for prescribing medical marijuana and of qualified patients and their designated primary caregivers for engaging in th

Facts of this case can be found in our previous consideration of the
parties’ contract in Volentine I, supra. After remand, the case proceeded to a
bench trial. The following chronology and overview of facts are set forth
for purposes of the issues raised on appeal.
The Parties’ Entry into the Contract – 2004
In 1992, Dan Volentine (“Volentine”) gave his two children pro

Oklahoma City, OK - Former Executive Director of Canadian County Charity for Children Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

TRACI LORRE OWENS, 47, of Edmond, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to embezzlement from a Canadian County charity for child crime victims.

According to the superseding information, Owens was the Interim Executive Director and then the Executive Director of Canadian

Urbana, IL - Patricia Marxmiller and Ken Marxmiller sued Seth Smith on an auto negligence theory and the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District on governmental tort claim respondeat superior theory claiming to have been injured and/or damaged in a bus pedestrian accident in Champaign County caused by a MTD driver. Mrs. Marxmiller lot both of her legs as a result of the injuries to her legs caused

In the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Congress determined that transactions in securities conducted over
3
exchanges and over-the-counter markets were “affected with a national public interest which makes it necessary to provide for regulation and control of such transactions and of practices and matters related thereto.” 15 U.S.C. § 78b. To carry out the regulation of the securities m

The facts of this case are altogether tragic, and the travel is anything but lackluster. We
recite only those facts that are relevant to the instant appeal, and so invite the reader to consult
our opinion in State v. Tempest, 651 A.2d 1198 (R.I. 1995) for a more detailed discussion. On February 19, 1982, at approximately 3:20 p.m., fifteen-year-old Lisa LaDue (LaDue)2
came home t

New Jersey has a significant body of statutory and
decisional law protecting employee rights -- protections that
exist whether the employee is a union member or not. Among
those are wage and hour and whistleblower protections. Facts
that can give rise to a violation of those state-law protections
can often (for union workers) also give rise to a claim based on
a col

Little Rock, AR - Little Rock Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Health Care Fraud

Dr. Robert Barrow, 63, of Little Rock, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to commit health care fraud, bringing to a close a multi-year federal investigation that began because of an anonymous tip.

At the conclusion of the hearing, U.S. District Court Judge J. Leon Holmes, citi

New York, NY - CEO Of Steel Contractor On World Trade Center Site Convicted At Trial Of Fraud In Connection With Program Designed To Encourage Participation Of Minority And Women-Owned Businesses

CEO’s company, DCM Erectors, also found guilty of fraud

Larry David, President and Chief Executive Officer of DCM Erectors, Inc. (“DCM”), and DCM itself, were convicted of engaging in a

Tulsa, OK - Criminal defense lawyer

Karla Rogers represented Anthony Roldan, who was charged by the State of Oklahoma with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 04/24/2014

Party Name

Disposition Informatio

Lawton, OK - The State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Department of Transportation sued Thomas F. Rivet, Karen A. Rivet and Board of County Commissioners of Comanche County on eminent domain theories seeking to acquire by condemnation certain rights, title and interested in real property owned by the Rivets located in Comanche County, Oklahoma for public use.

The Commissioners appointed by the Cour

A Floyd County jury convicted Casey Frederiksen of murder in the first
degree and sexual abuse in the first degree for offenses committed against the
five-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. Frederiksen now challenges his
convictions on three grounds. First, he disputes the sufficiency of the State’s
proof that he was the perpetrator. Second, he contends the distric