United States of America v. Brett Deuter; Deuter Construction, LLC; Enlighten, LLC

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

Idaho Code § 41-1329(14) provides that an insurer will be deemed to be committing an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance if it, among other acts, fails “to promptly provide a reasonable explanati... More...    $1 (03-26-2024 - ID)

Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LEB) in Idaho Falls. Tapp again voluntarily went to the LEB for questioning on January 10. After this interview, Tapp's parents retained p... More...    $0 (03-31-2010 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and falsification of records.

Nicholas Jones, age 36, from Boise, was a small business owner who applied for and received $753,600 in COVID-19 relief funds, primarily from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Despite certifying that the funds would only be ... More...    $194564 (10-19-2022 - ID)

Pocatello Idaho criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with Trafficking Fentanyl in Eastern Idaho

According to court records, Lopez was arrested on July 19, 2021, after detectives with the BADGES Task Force conducted an investigation and found a bag containing 1,694 pills that tested positive for fentanyl in Lopez’s vehicle during a traffic stop. The approximate street value of t... More...    $0 (09-02-2022 - ID)

Coeur D'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

According to court records, the investigation began after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBIâ€�) determined that a Kik Messenger account, later identified as belonging to Bradley Loewen, ate 51, of Genesee, Idhao, had been used to distribute child pornography. The FBI ... More...    $0 (07-12-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.

An investigation began after Yahoo reported that child pornography had been uploaded to two Yahoo accounts. The report was assigned to the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (“ICACâ€�) Task Force for investigation. ICAC determined that the accounts belonged to Judd Evans Ballar... More...    $0 (06-10-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho employment lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on force labor theories.

Plaintiffs were six citizens of Mexico who were recruited
to work as “Animal Scientists� at Funk Dairy in Idaho under
the “TN Visa� program for “professional� employees
established under the North American Free Trade
Agreement. But when plaintiffs arrived at the... More...    $0 (04-18-2022 - ID)

Investigative journalism has long been a fixture in the American press, particularly with regard to food safety.1 In the early 1900s, Upton Sinclair highlighted conditions in the meat-packing industry in The Jungle, a novel based on his time working incognito in a packing plant.2 This case also originates in the agricultural sector�a secretly-filmed expos� of the operation of an Idaho dairy fa... More...    $0 (01-09-2018 - ID)

Boise, ID - Boise Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Sex Trafficking of a Minor

Michael Wayne Wade, 31, of Boise was sentenced to 240 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor. Wade pleaded guilty on August 16, 2016.

According to the plea agreement, agents with the Idaho Department of Probation and Parole arrested Wade for a felony prob... More...    $0 (01-29-2017 - ID)

Boise, ID - Jerome Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

Casey Gibson, 23, of Jerome pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Gibson waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty to an information filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

According to the plea agreement, an electronic device at Gibson’s residence in Jerome accessed a website based in Russ... More...    $0 (08-31-2016 - ID)

A grand jury indicted Koch on four counts of lewd conduct with a minor under sixteen on November 15, 2011, with “C.C.” named as the complaining witness in all counts. Count I alleged the crime was committed “by manual to genital and/or oral to genital contact” between January and May 2011. Counts II, III, and IV all alleged genital to genital contact in April 2011. Koch’s daughter, T.K., was a cl... More...    $0 (09-21-2015 - ID)

The victim entered a psychiatric hospital on January 30, 2009, and David Aaron Knutsen (Defendant), who was thirty-one years old, was already at the facility. The victim, who was a twenty-two-year-old woman with a full-scale IQ of 72, had been admitted to the hospital because
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she was depressed and suicidal. Defendant had checked himself into the hospital for thirty-six hours to have... More...    $0 (08-24-2015 - ID)

On November 14, 2002, the grand jury sitting in Ada County indicted Abdullah on one count of murder in the first degree, a felony, Idaho Code sections 18-4001 to -4003; one count of arson in the first degree, a felony, Idaho Code section 18-802; three counts of attempted murder in the first degree, a felony, Idaho Code sections 18-4001 and 18-306; and one count of injury to a child, a felony, Idah... More...    $0 (08-12-2015 - ID)

This is a medical malpractice case arising out of the treatment of Rosamond Mattox at Life Care of Lewiston (LCL). The plaintiff-appellant, Rosamond’s son Gene Mattox, claimed that LCL’s sub-standard care caused his mother’s death. The district court excluded Gene’s experts’ affidavits after concluding that they failed to demonstrate actual knowledge of the applicable standard of health ... More...    $0 (10-29-2014 - ID)

Christian Westby, James Westby, and Kristina Westby (collectively “the Westbys�) permissively appealed the Canyon County district court’s denial of the Westbys’ motion to reconsider the court’s protective order granted to Mercy Medical Center and Dr. Gregory Schaefer.
This case arose from the Westbys’ claim that Dr. Schaefer’s and Mercy Medical’s negligence resulted in lifelong... More...    $0 (11-25-2014 - ID)

Both Idaho and Nevada have passed statutes and enacted constitutional
amendments preventing same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize
same-sex marriages validly performed elsewhere.2 Plaintiffs, same-sex couples
1A disposition in Jackson v. Abercrombie, Nos. 12-16995 & 12-16998, is
forthcoming separately.
2Idaho Const. Art. III, § 28 (“A marriage between a man... More...    $0 (10-07-2014 - ID)

This is an appeal out of Ada County by Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center from a jury verdict awarding damages totaling $52,084,513 against it for breach of contract and tortious conduct regarding MRI Associates, LLP, and its two limited partnerships that owned and operated magnetic resonance imaging scanners. The respondents also cross-appealed the $4.6 million judgment obtained by Saint Alp... More...    $0 (08-04-2014 - ID)

This appeal arises out of the Snake River Basin Adjudication (SRBA) court’s decision on the following basin-wide issue: Does Idaho law require a remark authorizing storage rights to “refill,â€� under priority, space vacated for flood control? The SRBA court concluded that a remark was not necessary because a storage water right that is filled cannot refill under priority before affected junior... More...    $0 (08-04-2014 - ID)

This is an appeal from the district court sitting in its appellate capacity and comes before this Court on review from the Idaho Court of Appeals. We reverse the decision of the district court and remand with instructions.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
This is a dispute between two collections agencies, Medical Recovery Services, LLC (MRS) and Bonneville Billing and Collections, Inc... More...    $0 (08-21-2014 - ID)

This is an appeal from a decision of the Industrial Commission finding that Francisco Serrano failed to prove that the condition for which he claimed additional benefits was caused by industrial accidents occurring in 2004 and 2008 while he was working for Four Seasons Framing (Four Seasons). We affirm.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Serrano worked as a framer for Four Seasons from S... More...    $0 (08-22-2014 - ID)

BOISE, ID – Chief United States District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill today sentenced the last two DBSI defendants convicted at trial to federal prison terms, announced Wendy J. Olson, U.S. Attorney for Idaho. David D. Swenson, 38, of Boise, Idaho, and Jeremy A. Swenson, 41, of Meridian, Idaho, were each sentenced to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and a $4,400... More...    $0 (08-21-2014 - ID)

This appeal arises from a Petition for Access to Public Records filed by Jamee Wade seeking the disclosure of investigatory records in the possession of the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (CCPA). The district court ordered CCPA to produce the records pursuant to the request, but limited disclosure to Wade and his counsel. CCPA timely appealed. We vacate the judgment of the district ... More...    $0 (03-18-2014 - ID)

Appellant, Charles DeGroot and DeGroot Farms, LLC (collectively “DeGroot�), appeals the district court’s entry of summary judgment on its claims against Standley Trenching, Inc. d/b/a Standley & Co. (“Standley�), relating to the construction and installation of a manure handling system at the DeGroot dairy. Beltman Construction, Inc., d/b/a Beltman Weldling and
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Construction (â€... More...    $0 (03-28-2014 - ID)

This is an appeal out of Kootenai County from a judgment dismissing Mr. Pierce’s complaint seeking damages he sustained in what he contended was a foreclosure scam. Only Mr. McMullen, a Defendant, appeared in the action, but he did not deny the allegations of wrongdoing in the complaint. When Mr. McMullen failed to appear at the trial, the district court ordered that he was in default, that Mr. ... More...    $0 (06-17-2014 - ID)

This is an appeal out of Ada County by Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center from a jury verdict awarding damages totaling $52,084,513 against it for breach of contract and tortious conduct regarding MRI Associates, LLP, and its two limited partnerships that owned and operated magnetic resonance imaging scanners. The respondents also cross-appealed the $4.6 million judgment obtained by Saint Alp... More...    $0 (06-17-2014 - ID)

This appeal arises from Internet Auto Rent & Sales, Inc.’s, termination of an employee, Tina Venable. Venable appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment against her on her claim of wrongful discharge in violation of public policy and denial of her motion for reconsideration. Both Venable and Internet Auto request attorney fees on appeal.
I.
BACKGROUND
Internet Auto Rent... More...    $0 (06-17-2014 - ID)

This appeal arises from a fraud, breach of contract, and breach of warranty action brought by April Beguesse, Inc. (ABI) against Kenneth Rammell (Rammell), the estate of Christa Beguesse (Christa), and Christa Beguesse, Inc. (CBI) (collectively Defendants) and a breach of contract counterclaim brought by CBI against ABI. The parties went to trial and the jury returned
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a verdict in favor ... More...    $0 (06-18-2014 - ID)

Appellant Irina N. Shea brought a negligence suit against Respondent Kevic Corporation (Kevic), d/b/a Lett’s Downtown Car Wash, located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Shea claimed that she was injured when she slipped and fell on ice near the exit of the car wash due to Kevic’s negligence in allowing ice to build up near the car wash exit or in failing to warn of the danger of ice buildup. The dis... More...    $0 (06-24-2014 - ID)

An early-morning shooting, a mysterious alias, and a
problematic eyewitness identification led police to the home
of Martin Cantu Ruiz, where they found a gun he wasn’t
supposed to have. Ruiz appeals his conviction for Unlawful
Possession of a Firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1),
contending that the district court erred by denying his motion
to suppress a shotg... More...    $0 (07-11-2014 - ID)

In 1999, Rick and Natalie Foeller apparently1 entered into an agreement with Melaleuca of Canada, Inc., under which the Foellers were to act as independent marketing executives in exchange for monthly commission payments. In 2008, the Foellers breached this agreement but Melaleuca continued to pay them commissions because it was unaware of the breach. Upon learning of the breach, Melaleuca sued to... More...    $0 (02-07-2014 - ID)

This is an appeal out of Bannock County from a summary judgment dismissing an action to enforce an oral agreement to guaranty the debt of another on the ground that the agreement is barred by the statute of frauds. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

I.

Factual Background.

In January 2009, Lesa Darlene Horrocks was one of the owners of Sunshine Secretarial Serv... More...    $0 (03-29-2013 - ID)

This appeal arises from the termination of Jeffry Black, the former Executive Director of the Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST). Black asserts that the Idaho State Police (ISP) violated two provisions of the Idaho Protection of Public Employees Act (commonly, the “Whistleblower Actâ€�) when it terminated him. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of ISP, ho... More...    $0 (11-27-2013 - ID)

The Idaho Industrial Commission (the Commission) held that a statutory employer, Russell Griffeth, was not liable for payments under Idaho’s worker’s compensation law because the claimant, Geffary Stringer, fell within the “casual employmentâ€� exemption set forth in I.C. § 72-212(2). Stringer contests the Commission’s application of the “casual employmentâ€� exemption, arguing statutor... More...    $0 (11-27-2013 - ID)

In this appeal, we consider whether the Shoshone- Bannock Tribes plausibly have the authority to regulate the land use of David Evans, a nonmember of the Tribes, who owns land in fee simple within the Fort Hall Reservation.1 Acknowledging the general rule that tribes may not regulate nonmember conduct on such “non-Indian fee land,â€� the district court nevertheless held that the Tribes had a pla... More...    $0 (12-05-2013 - ID)

This appeal arises from a medical malpractice claim brought against a physician’s assistant, two supervising physicians, and Rocky Mountain Emergency Physicians, L.L.C. (collectively Rocky Mountain). Heather Hall presented at the emergency room complaining of headache, blurry vision, and sensitivity to light. Jeff Johnson, a physician’s assistant, examined Hall. As part of his examination, he ... More...    $0 (09-06-2013 - ID)

Appellants Lamon “Montâ€� and Lori Gentillon as well as Wes and Connie Gentillon (the Partnership) appeal from the district court’s order granting title to all but .34 acres of a disputed parcel of land and a 30-foot easement in favor of Craig and Janice Peterson (the Petersons) in an action to quiet title to certain portions of riparian and agricultural land in Bingham County, Idaho. In 1998,... More...    $0 (02-26-2013 - ID)

Gary Duspiva, a well driller, initiated this suit against Clyde and John Fillmore to recover money that he claimed to be owing for well drilling services. The Fillmores counterclaimed, alleging Duspiva violated the Idaho Consumer Protection Act1 (ICPA). The matter proceeded to a court trial. The district court found that Duspiva’s conduct violated the ICPA and granted judgment in favor of the Fi... More...    $0 (01-23-2013 - ID)

EISMANN, Justice. In this case, a jury returned a special verdict that: (a) awarded damages against an attorney and his girlfriend based upon the jury’s finding that they had breached their fiduciary duties to a former client of the attorney by purchasing half of his stock in a closely held corporation for less than its fair market value, and (b) cancelled debts owing by the corporation to the a... More...    $0 (05-29-2012 - ID)