Plaintiff Jeremiah Mathews worked as a maintenance supervisor and a cook for
defendant Happy Valley Conference Center, Inc. (Happy Valley), which hosts seminars,
retreats, and camps on a 30-acre property in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Happy Valley is
a subordinate affiliate of defendant Community of Christ (the Church). When a younger
male employee confided in plaintiff that Hap

New York, NY - The United States of America charged John Ulrich with conspiracy to bribe officers or an employee organization and employee welfare benefit plaintiff, fraud and attempt and conspiracy to commit honest services health care fraud.

John Ulrich, who previously served as the vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 812 (the “Union”) and as a trustee of

Defendant and appellant John-David Gonzales (Gonzales) appeals the orders of
the trial court that led to the disbursement of settlement funds to respondents Michael
Silvers, a law corporation (Silvers), Panish, Shea & Boyle (PSB), Michael W. Jacobs
(Jacobs), Case Advance (CA),1 Nexus Physical Therapy (Nexus), and Everence
Association, Inc. (Everence) (Silvers, PSB, Jacobs, CA, Nexu

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Gerardo Martinez with:


Count # 1. Count as Filed: COMPFR, WORKER'S COMPENSATION FRAUD, in violation of 21 O.S. 1663(C)(9)
Date of Offense: 11/12/2006
Party Name Disposition Information
MARTINEZ, GERARDO Disposed: DISMISSED, 12/05/2019. Dismissed- Request of the State
Count as Disposed: WORKER'S COMPENSATION FRAUD(COMPFR)

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Curtis L. Williams with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: WORKERS' COMPENSATION FRAUD/FELONY, in violation of O.S. 85 OS
Date of Offense: 09/05/1997
Party Name Disposition Information
WILLIAMS, CURTIS L Disposed: DISMISSED, 12/05/2019. Dismissed- Request of the State
Count as Disposed: WORKERS' COMPENSATION FRAUD/FELONY
Count #

Detroit, MI - The United States of America charged Joseph Ashton with money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud.

Joseph Ashton, former Vice President of the UAW�s General Motors Department, pleaded guilty to conspiring with other UAW officials to engage in honest services fraud by taking $250,000 in bribes and kickbacks from a UAW vendor and to conspiring to launder the proceeds o

The City of Austin enacted a housing ordinance that prohibits landlords from refusing tenants who wish to pay their rent with federal housing vouchers. Shortly thereafter, the State of Texas enacted a statute that sought to invalidate the City’s ordinance and to allow landlords to continue to refuse federal vouchers. The City then sued Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, and the Texas Workforc

Galveston, TX - The United States of America sued TFT Galveston Portfolio, LTD and James G. Gartrell, on violation of the Fair Housing Act and Americans With Disabilities Act violation theories.

A Texas apartment developer and a Texas site engineer had agreed to settle a federal lawsuit alleging they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The s

The Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS)
appeals from a judgment following the trial court’s ruling
sustaining a demurrer to ALADS’s complaint without leave to
amend. ALADS sued respondent County of Los Angeles (County)
concerning the County’s alleged breach of a labor agreement.
The trial court sustained the County’s demurrer on the sole
ground that ALADS fa

We address for the first time whether a conviction under South Carolina’s voyeurism1 statute constitutes a “sex offense” requiring registration under the Sexual Offender Registration Act (“SORNA”). Arguing it does not, Helton moved to dismiss the indictment alleging that he failed to register as a sex offender under SORNA. The district court denied Helton’s motion, holding that a conviction under

In this appeal we decide whether a California charter city’s policy for the sale of
surplus city-owned land is preempted by the state’s affordable housing law.
The dispute centers on the City of San Jose’s passage of City Policy 7-13 (Policy
7-13), which appellants Sarah Anderson, Joana Cruz, Urban Habitat Program, and
Housing California contend violates the Surplus Land Act (Gov.

East St. Louis, IL - The United States of America charged Mario H. Fennoy with fraud.

An East St. Louis police officer pleaded guilty to obtaining department funds by fraud. Mario H. Fennoy, 48, of Lebanon, Illinois, entered an “open plea” to the federal indictment returned against him in June, admitting that he falsely submitted claims for overtime pay for nearly a year while working as

Ralph Placencia died, leaving behind, among other things, a will, a trust,
and a joint bank account with an express right of survivorship in favor of one of his
daughters, appellant Lisa Strazicich. Prior to his death in 2009, Ralph left clear
statements in his will that he did not want Lisa to have the right of survivorship; he
wanted the proceeds of the account to go to his trust

Peter Hudson fought fires for the Highland Park Fire Department for close to thirteen years. During that time, he became a person of faith. For five years, he criticized other firefighters at the station for conduct he thought immoral and harmful to their work, and they responded by criticizing his faith and belittling him in other ways. In 2015, Hudson’s supervisor discovered that he had overrepo

In this appeal, plaintiffs and appellants Tesoro Refining &
Marketing Company LLC and Tesoro Socal Pipeline Company
LLC (Tesoro) appeal the denial of a writ of mandate seeking to
set aside a cleanup and abatement order (CAO) issued by
defendant and respondent Los Angeles Regional Water Quality
Control Board (Regional Board).1
Tesoro alleges that the trial judge erred in two

Petitioner Meadowbrook Insurance Company (Meadowbrook), administrator for
Star Insurance Company, petitioned for writ of review of the Workers’ Compensation
Appeal Board’s (WCAB) decision on reconsideration that liens held by DFS Interpreting
(DFS) against Meadowbrook regarding unpaid invoices for interpreter services DFS
provided to Meadowbrook’s insureds were not foreclosed by DF

Columbus, OH - The United States of America charged Abdikarim Abdirahman with preparation of a false tax return.

A Columbus businessman pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return.

According to information provided in court, Abdikarim Abdirahman, 57, was the general manager of Diversity Home Health Care (Diversity), a home health care agency op

This is an appeal in a landlord–tenant class action from a trial court order
invalidating the broad releases of claims signed by approximately 26 tenant putative class
members and requiring the parties to meet and confer regarding a corrective notice for the
putative class after the court found said releases contained misleading and one-sided
information regarding the underlying la