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United States of America v. Nathaniel Lewis Kreikemeier
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a Prohibited Person in Possession of Ammunition. Nebraska Man Sentenced to 63 Months in Federal Prison for Firearms Charge A Pilger, Nebraska man was senten...
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( 03-23-2024 - IA)

Carly Riecken v. Walmart, Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa personal injury slip and fall lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a premises liability theory. This case was filed in the Story County District Court, LACV053320, and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. Iowa property owners have a legal obligation to maintain safe conditions on their property. Both businesses and private citizens must elimina...
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( 03-20-2024 - IA)

Arrowood Indemnity Company v. Guy Cornwell, et al.
Des Moines, Iowa insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff which sued seeking a declaratory judgment. Plaintiff Arrowood Indemnity Company alleged it has no duty to defend or indemnify Defendant Charles McCarthy and his estate against abuse claims by the Individual Defendants or to pay a settlement that the defendants reached resolving their underlying claims in state court. ...
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( 03-15-2024 - IA)

United States of America v. Chet Edwin Mercer
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Charges. Burlington Man Sentenced to 200 Months for Drug Charges A Burlington man was sentenced to 200 months in federal prison for Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of ...
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( 03-01-2024 - IA)

Pamela A. Dowd v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company
Des Moines, Iowa insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract. Under Iowa law, a claimant must prove by substantial evidence that there is no reasonable basis for denying or delaying your benefits and the insurance carrier knew or should have known that its refusal or delay was without a reasonable basis. ...
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( 02-16-2024 - IA)

Katelyn Prust v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company d/b/a Mutual of Omaha
Des Moines, Iowa insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory. Under Iowa law, a claimant must prove by substantial evidence that there is no reasonable basis for denying or delaying your benefits and the insurance carrier a separate claim against an insurance company that fails to obey Iowa's workers' compensation laws regardi...
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( 02-09-2024 - IA)

Melissa Huffman v. Novo Nordisk A/S
Des Moines, Iowa personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on product liability theory. Corporations Can be Held Liable for Crafting Dangerous or Defective Products. Individuals who have suffered injury as a result of using a defective product have rights. Manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and designers all have the responsibility to provide the general public with p...
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( 02-09-2024 - IA)

State of Iowa v. John Andrew Alcorn, III, Robert David Lyons, and Rebecca Marie Lyons
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with attempted murder. John Andrew Alcorn III, 31; Robert David Lyons, 61; and his daughter, Rebecca Marie Lyons, 39; were convicted after a week-and-a-half trial. In addition to attempted murder, Alcorn and Robert Lyons were also convicted of two counts of willful injury causing serious injury, a Class C felony...
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( 02-09-2024 - IA)

United States of America v. Dontavius Rashawn Sharkey
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with firearms straw purchasing and illegally possessing firearms and a machine gun. A Des Moines man was sentenced to 384 months in federal prison after a jury convicted him of charges relate...
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( 02-08-2024 - IA)

Darla Parker v. Greater Regional Health, et al.
Des Moines, Iowa civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a disability job discrimination theory. ...
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( 02-05-2024 - IA)

Benjamin Anderson v. American Tire Distributors, Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Family and Medical Leave Act violation theory. FMLA is designed to help employees balance their work and family responsibilities by allowing them to take reasonable unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. It also seeks to accommodate the legitimate interests of employers and promote equal employmen...
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( 02-05-2024 - IA)

United States of America v. Timothy D. Sletten
Des Moines, Iowa Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Disaster-Related Insurance Fraud In 2018, following the EF-3 tornado that hit Marshalltown, Iowa, Timothy D. Sletten, 32, engaged in two separate schemes to defraud State Farm, the insurer of Sletten’s numerous residential re...
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( 01-11-2024 - IA)

United States of America v. Thomas James Morford
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to pay over employee trust fund taxes and failure to file a federal tax return. From 2015 to 2020, Thomas James Morford, 50, who operated a local concrete business, failed to pay $355,049 in employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This included the failure to pay taxes that he had colle...
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( 12-06-2023 - IA)

Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. v. Mi Ranchito Grill & Seafood, LLC, d/b/a Mi Ranchito Mexican Grill & Seafood
Des Moines, Iowa civil litigation law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the defendant on a Cable Communications Policy Act violation theory....
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( 11-21-2023 - IA)

David Schlindwein adn Johnine Hays v. The Celina Mutual Insurance Company
Des Moines, Iowa insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory claiming $84,000 in damages as a direct result. "Elements of a Bad Faith Breach of Insurance Contract Claim in Iowa To succeed in a bad faith breach of insurance contract claim in Iowa, a plaintiff must prove the following elements: ...
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( 11-21-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Tyran Jeremiah Locure
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B) and felony possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 U.S.C.. 18:924(c)(1)(A)(i)....
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( 11-17-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Bakou Kees Vonty
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with preparing, presenting, and making false tax returns. Bakou Kees Vonty, 41, also known as Bob Vonty, prepared and filed hundreds of federal individual income tax returns on behalf of individual taxpayers, from approximately 2011 to 2022. On a 2019 tax return, Vonty, on behalf of an individual, falsely reported ...
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( 11-17-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Adam Christopher Evans
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transportation of child pornography and two additional years for violating his term of federal supervised release. In 2022, Adam Christopher Evans, 39, amassed an extensive collection of child sexual abuse material. Over several months, Evans stockpiled over 500 images and 69 videos depicting the sexual expl...
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( 11-07-2023 - IA)

Jerry Probasco, et al. v. MFA, Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on a breach of contract theory. "Iowa breach of contract law is governed by the Iowa Uniform Commercial Code and the common law of contracts. To prove a breach of contract in Iowa, the non-breaching party must show the following four elements: Existence of a valid contract. Th...
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( 10-27-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Hkeem Emmanuel Ellison
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms....
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( 10-27-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Richard Thomas Ball
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking three adult females by force, fraud, and coercion and kidnapping one of the adult females; 30 years for sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor female; and 10 years for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Richard Thomas Ball, 47, used deceptive and coercive tactics as...
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( 10-27-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Thein Maung and Phyo Mi
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with forty-nine fraud- and tax-related charges. For several years, Thein Maung, age 47, and Phyo Mi, age 21, of Ottumwa, Iowan ran a fraudulent tax-preparation business out of their family’s Ottumwa home. In exchange for a cash fee, Maung and Mi would prepare and file their customers’ tax returns. Maung and ...
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( 10-02-2023 - IA)

Troy Garber v. United States of America
Des Moines, Iowa personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Federal Tort Claims Act negligence theory. "The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) is a law that allows individuals to sue the federal government for torts committed by federal employees. A tort is a civil wrong that results in injury to another person. The FTCA waives the government's sovereign immunity, wh...
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( 08-07-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Aaron Christopher Lindsey
Des Monies, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements to a financial institution in conjunction with obtaining a loan and possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. In early September 2021, Aaron Christopher Lindsey, 34, purchased a 2018 Dodge Durango GT from an Ames car dealership using the fictious identity “Kevin Grant...
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( 08-01-2023 - IA)

United States of America v. Carl Murphy
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin for his role in a large-scale heroin and fentanyl conspiracy. Over the course of a 14-month investigation, including the use of wiretaps, law enforcement identified Carl Murphy, age 53, also known as “P” and “C-Note,” as a heroin/fentanyl supplier for numerous street-level ...
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( 05-23-2023 - IA)

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