A live power line on the ground is far more hazardous than a live power line in the air. In this wrongful death action, plaintiff Ralph Skidmore, Jr., individually and as the personal representative of the estate of Catherine Dawn Skidmore (collectively, the estate), appeals of right the trial court’s order granting summary disposition in favor of defendant, Consumers Energy Company (Consumers),

These three defendants were tried jointly before separate juries. A jury convicted defendant Floyd Gene Perkins (Perkins) of first-degree felony murder, MCL 750.316(b), conspiracy to commit armed robbery, MCL 750.157a, armed robbery, MCL 750.529, and felony
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firearm, MCL 750.227b(1). Perkins was sentenced to life in prison for the murder conviction, 285 months to 50 years’ imprisonm

Tulsa, OK - Sonya D. Lange sued John Zink Co., L.L.C. and Koch Industries, Inc. on wrongful termination theories claiming:


1. That Plaintiff is a resident of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma;
2. That Defendant is a foreign limited liability company, conducting business in Tulsa County, Oklahoma;
3. That the incidents complained of herein occurred in Tulsa County, State of Okla

In 2007, the legislature passed the Louisiana Public Defender Act,
LSA-R.S. 15:141, et seq., which requires the LPDB to hire and compensate
qualified counsel to represent indigent defendants throughout the state. To
meet this obligation, LPDB entered into contracts with nonprofit entities,
including CAPOLA, which hired attorneys to provide criminal defense
services in capital

This case requires us to, once again, interpret and apply Maine's Whistleblower Protection Act,
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 26, § 833. Appellant Torrey Harrison
("Harrison"), a social worker, wants to be able to tell a jury
that appellee Granite Bay Care, Inc. ("Granite Bay") illegally
fired her in violation of that statute. Her theory is Granite Bay
was getting back at her for

Boise, ID - Former Executive of Nuclear Power Company Sentenced

Jennifer R. Ransom, 41, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release—the first six months of which is home confinement--for the crime of securities fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior United States District Judge

This case arises from the shooting death of Courtney McKinney in the presence of her sixteen-month-old child. A Lincoln County grand jury indicted the Defendant for the second degree murder of his wife, Courtney McKinney, and for child abuse or neglect of their child (“the victim”). At trial, the parties presented the following evidence: Mary Pauline Price, Courtney McKinney‟s mother, test

Melanie Mott was injured on October 17, 2013, while working as a picker at Tractor Supply when she caught a falling box weighing approximately 72 pounds. Mott described experiencing immediate pain in her lower back, hip, and down her right leg. She reported to her supervisor and Human Resources, and Tractor Supply sent her to an urgent care clinic. The urgent care clinic referred Mott to Dr. Geoff

Victoria, TX - Rice Farmer Convicted and Fined for Poisoning Birds

The operator of a Danbury rice farm entered a guilty plea to illegally killing 65 brown-headed cowbirds and four red-tailed hawks.

Nelson Bulanek, 54, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jason B. Libby. Bulanek was ordered to pay a $10,000 community service payment to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departmen

A restaurant was severely damaged by fire. The owners made an insurance claim, but much of the claim was denied. They ultimately sued the insurer for policy benefits. They obtained a jury verdict and judgment against the insurer, which the insurer paid. Thereafter, they brought a separate action against the insurer for bad faith, alleging it had lacked a reasonable basis for its prior refusal

Appellant, Tony Brooks, was convicted by a Pulaski County Circuit Court jury of
capital murder and abuse of a corpse. Brooks was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment
without parole for the capital-murder conviction and thirty years’ imprisonment for abuse of
a corpse to be served concurrently. An appeal from the judgment has been lodged in this
court. Brooks is represented o

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Department of Transportation sued Stantan B. Noble a/k/a Stan B. Noble on an eminent domain theory seeking to acquire certain rights, title and interests in real property owned by Defendant for public highway purposes.

Date Code Description Count Party Amount
01-12-2009 TEXT

CIVIL RELIEF MORE THAN $10,000 INITIAL FILING.

Kathy Crofts was a long-term Game & Fish employee. At all relevant times, Ms. Crofts was a wildlife investigator based in Cody, and was entitled to the protections provided to full-time, permanent employees by the Stateof Wyoming’s Personnel Rules.
[¶4] Ms. Crofts was issued a one-day suspension without pay on October 13, 2011. That suspension was based upon Ms. Crofts’ insubordinate behavior

We must first address appellee's contention that the appellants' claims are barred by R.C. 4123.74. R.C. 4123.74 provided, in pertinent part, "Employers who comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code shall not be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury, or occupational disease, or bodily condition, received or contracted by any employee in the course of or ari

The Workers' Compensation system has been described as an historic "trade-off" whereby employees relinquish their right to pursue common-law remedies in exchange for prompt and automatic entitlement to benefits for work-related injuries. Millison v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 101 N.J. 161, 174, 501 A.2d 505 (1985). That characterization is only broadly accurate. In fact, not every worker inj

In Turner v. PCR, Inc., 754 So.2d 683 (Fla.2000), we reaffirmed the existence of an intentional-tort exception to the otherwise exclusive nature of the statutory remedy provided by the Workers' Compensation Law. Under the intentional-tort exception, an injured employee can avoid the exclusive-remedy provision of the Workers' Compensation Law and sue his employer in tort if his workplace injury w

We have for review a decision ruling on the following question certified to be of great public importance:

IS AN EXPERT'S AFFIDAVIT, EXPRESSING THE OPINION THAT AN EMPLOYER EXHIBITED A DELIBERATE INTENT TO INJURE OR ENGAGED IN CONDUCT SUBSTANTIALLY CERTAIN TO RESULT IN INJURY OR DEATH TO AN EMPLOYEE, SUFFICIENT TO CONSTITUTE A FACTUAL DISPUTE, THUS PRECLUDING SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON T

Linda Lieving appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of Pleasant Valley Hospital, Inc. (“PVH”) and Thomas Schauer, PVH’s Chief Executive Officer (collectively, “Defendants”), in her employment discrimination action. Lieving alleged that Defendants fostered a hostile work environment in which she was discriminated against on the basis of her sex, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Righ

Pittsburgh, PA - Armstrong County Truck Driver Sentenced to Probation for Ripping Off Social Security

An Armstrong County truck driver has been sentenced in federal court to five years of probation with six months home detention (and ordered to pay $55,012 restitution) on his conviction of theft of government property.

United States District Judge Terrence F. McVerry imposed the

Oklahoma City, OK - Lisa G. Hasselbring v. John Houck, M.D.

COMES NOW THE Plaintiff and for cause of actionagainst the Defendant alleges and states:

1. Seeking compensation for injuries resulting from procedure performed by Defendant on November 3rd, 2008.

2. Said procedure was performed by Defendant without anesthesia resulting in injury to true vocal cords.
3. Said

Tulsa, OK - Steven Hale sued Jim Norton Chevrolet, LLC and General Motors, LLC on an auto negligence theory claiming:

1. Steven Hale is an individual and a truck driver for Oklahoma Custom
Courier, LLC The Defendant Jim Norton Chevrolet, LLC, is a limited liability company
doing business in Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma The Defendant, General Motor
Company, Chevrolet Divisio

Plaintiffs are 189 natural persons who live, work, or own real property in a certain part of Harvey, Louisiana, or formerly did so. They allege that the nearby cleaning of pipes used in the oil industry produced harmful radioactive material that injured their health and property. Defendants are several oil companies, contractors that cleaned pipes for those oil companies, and the owners of prope

isaac A. Potter, Jr., commenced this action on June 3, 2015. See generally Compl. Plaintiff alleges numerous causes of action in the complaint including: false allegations, retaliatory conduct, conspiracy to harm a patient and the patient's family, emotional distress, mental anguish, slander, violation of the patient's and spouse of the patient's constitutional rights, discriminatory acts, various

The Defendant was charged in this case with one count of Unlawful Use Of Secret Scientific Material in violation of Penal Law § 165.07 for conduct which occurred on June 1, 2009 (Count 1), one count alleging a violation of the same statute with respect to conduct which occurred on June 5, 2009 (Count 2) and one count of Unlawful Duplication of Computer Related in the First Degree in violation of P

The Court takes its facts from: (i) the PSR; (ii) the Sealed Response to Defendant Kenneth Ulibarri's Amended Objections to PSR [and] Sentencing Memorandum at 2, filed May 8, 2015 (Doc. 902)("Response"); and (iii) the Indictment, filed December 12, 2012 (Doc. 2)("Indictment").4 In June, 2011, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") initiated an investigation codenamed Operation Rain Check into