79 results for 'judge:"Stevens"'.
J. Stevens finds that the lower court in part partially properly ordered discovery of attorney-client communications in this dispute over the development of a shopping center. The potential shopping center developer waived the attorney-client privilege and work product protection as a result of their defenses to their adversary’s amended complaint. Affirmed in part.
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: July 28, 2023, Case #: J-A10032-23, Categories: Evidence, Property, Discovery
J. Stevens finds that the lower court properly dismissed a maritime employment suit for lack of jurisdiction. While the employee resides in Missouri, the company is based in Kentucky and does not particularly target Missouri customers for its shipping business that runs on the Mississippi River. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: July 25, 2023, Case #: ED111141, Categories: Maritime, Jurisdiction
J. Stevens finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant of murder and sentenced him to life in prison after admitting into evidence a photograph from the liquor store surveillance video bearing a police officer's handwritten notation that defendant acknowledged he was one of the men in the photo. Defendant has not demonstrated any obvious error from the admission of the photograph, or that it was prejudicial. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: July 18, 2023, Case #: ED110950, Categories: Murder, Sentencing
J. Stevens finds that the trial court properly terminated the father's parental rights to his daughter because the evidence sufficiently supports the statutory ground for endangering conduct and the best interest findings. The daughter witnessed her brother drown in a hotel hot tub due to the father's neglectful supervision. Also, the father had a history of drug use and did not finish his family service plan. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: July 14, 2023, Case #: 06-23-00020-CV, Categories: Evidence, Family Law
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J. Stevens finds that the trial court properly granted the university's plea to the jurisdiction and dismissed the professor's personal injury suit stemming from a vehicle/pedestrian accident in a campus parking lot. Because the professor was hurt while in the course and scope of her employment, workers' compensation was her exclusive remedy. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 22, 2023, Case #: 06-22-00076-CV, Categories: Tort, Jurisdiction, Workers' Compensation
J. Stevens grants mandamus relief to the county district attorney seeking to have a judge rescind an order that requires the state to provide a copy of a "recorded forensic interview of an alleged child victim" to defendant, who was indicted for aggravated sexual assault of a child. The relevant discovery statutes prohibit the duplication of the interview recording at issue.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 20, 2023, Case #: 06-23-00003-CR, Categories: Criminal Procedure, Experts, Discovery
J. Stevens grants a district attorney mandamus relief from the lower court's order requiring the state to provide a copy of a forensic interview with an alleged child victim to a defendant facing charges for aggravated sexual assault of a child. State discovery laws do not allow interviews of alleged child victims to be duplicated.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 20, 2023, Case #: 06-23-00003-CR, Categories: Sex Offender, Discovery
J. Stevens finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant of statutory sodomy and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. Defense counsel knowingly opened the door to evidence of other uncharged conduct as part of a trial strategy seeking to show that victims' similar accounts of sexual abuse were fabricated during a tumultuous marriage. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 13, 2023, Case #: ED110580, Categories: Sex Offender
J. Stevens finds that the lower court improperly denied a county children and youth services agency’s request to change the permanency goals of four children from reunification to adoption. The court failed to recognize that changing the goal to adoption is in the children’s best interests since it could give them permanency and stability. Reversed.
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 9, 2023, Case #: J-A10041-23, Categories: Civil Procedure, Guardianship, Juvenile Law
J. Stevens finds that the lower court, in part, improperly entered judgment in favor of a health center that sought reimbursement from an insurance company for an insured patient’s unpaid bills. The lower court must reexamine the center’s claim that the insurer incorrectly repriced certain invoices of the patient’s. Vacated in part.
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 8, 2023, Case #: J-A23032-22, Categories: Civil Procedure, Insurance, Contract
J. Stevens finds that the trial court properly entered a final decree granting the wife's petition for divorce based on the husband's "adultery and insupportability." The evidence of the wife's insufficient income supports the award of spousal maintenance, and there was no abuse of discretion in the order that each party indemnify the other from any tax liability. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: June 2, 2023, Case #: 06-22-00093-CV, Categories: Civil Procedure, Family Law, Tax
J. Stevens finds that the trial court properly ruled in favor of the accused companies in a suit alleging that they were part of a fraudulent transfer of the proceeds from the sale of an individual's business that should have been used to satisfy a personal injury judgment obtained by an employee. The evidence supports the finding that the companies were not "transferees" under the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Stevens, Filed On: May 16, 2023, Case #: 06-22-00046-CV, Categories: Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Fraud