206 results for 'filedAt:"2024-04-10"'.
J. Greer finds that defendant was properly sentenced to imprisonment for failing to register as a sex offender, second offense, following his conviction for lascivious acts with a child because he continually failed to meet registry requirements and had already agreed to his sentence upon entering a plea deal. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Greer, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 22-0908, Categories: Sentencing, Sex Offender, Plea
J. Ahlers finds that the lower court properly prevented defense counsel from introducing evidence about defendant's agreement to be interviewed by police in his trial for sexually abusing a child because the state would have been entitled to provide evidence that risked significant prejudice during rebuttal. Affirmed.
Court: Iowa Court Of Appeals, Judge: Ahlers, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 22-1593, Categories: Evidence, Sex Offender, Child Victims
J. Anderson finds that defendant was properly convicted of the second degree murders of his ex-girlfriend and her friend. In this case, there was testimony from witnesses that the girlfriend's dying declaration indicated defendant shot her. Also, the phone records show many missed calls from defendant to the girlfriend before the shooting after he saw her earlier in the day, and the accident reconstruction expert testified as to the matching up of the damage to defendant's car with that of the victims' car. Affirmed.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Stephens, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 55,550-KA, Categories: Evidence, Murder
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J. Kobayashi remands to state court a case brought by families against their landlords, who evicted them from their homes after their water was contaminated by the U.S. Navy’s jet fuel leak. Despite the landlord’s relationship with the military under residential agreements, the landlords themselves are not military and therefore do not fall under federal jurisdiction. Bringing in the U.S. as a third-party defendant does not grant jurisdiction because “a defendant may not create subject-matter jurisdiction by filing a third-party complaint — that is not a voluntary act by plaintiff.”
Court: USDC Hawaii, Judge: Kobayashi, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv584, NOS: Torts to Land - Real Property, Categories: Government, Landlord Tenant
J. Stone finds that defendant was properly convicted of possession of marijuana, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and illegal carrying of weapons while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance. In this case, the police properly stopped defendant as he was walking into a gas station convenience store because the officers observed him with an assault rifle in his pant leg. Further, there were recent robberies in the area and a concern that defendant was committing a robbery. Affirmed.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Stone, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 55,581-KA, Categories: Drug Offender, Firearms, Search
J. Pitman finds that the trial court properly released defendant, who was charged with murder, without bail because La. C. Cr. P. art. 701 relieves a defendant from his bail obligation on the running of the time period for speedy trial. However, defendant's right to a speedy trial was not violated because there is no time limitation on a murder charge, and, in this case, the length of the delay did not prejudice defendant since there was a detainer in Mississippi requiring his transfer to serve an outstanding sentence. Affirmed in part.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Pitman, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 55,609-KA, Categories: Criminal Procedure, Murder, Speedy Trial
[Consolidated]. J. Loken finds a lower court properly removed a Nigerian citizen back to Nigeria for defrauding insurance companies by setting up bogus car crashes in order to collect insurance payouts. The citizen of Nigeria, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud, argued that he was entitled to remain in the U.S. based on a letter submitted to the court by an attorney, even though the letter was supposed to be written by an actual law firm. However, the government sufficiently showed in court that he is removable based on his breach of the plea agreement. Affirmed.
Court: 8th Circuit, Judge: Loken, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 22-3235, Categories: Evidence, Fraud, Immigration
J. Kelly dismisses the insurer's interlocutory appeal of the lower court's partial denial of its motion to dismiss a consumer fraud class action. The consumers claim the insurer engaged in unfair business practices by reducing the actual cash value of totaled cars by a "typical negotiation" deduction, which is not defined in the policy. However, the court lacks jurisdiction to hear this appeal because the lower court's decision rests on its interpretation of state law, not on the Federal Arbitration Act.
Court: 8th Circuit, Judge: Kelly, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 23-1516, Categories: Fraud, Insurance, Class Action
J. Gibbons finds the district court improperly granted the ex-wife's motion to enforce the divorce decree and enter an amended qualified domestic relations order. The order indicated the ex-wife is entitled to one half of her ex-wife's public employee retirement benefits, including survivor benefits. The order is inconsistent with guiding case law holding that "unless specifically set forth in the divorce decree, an allocation of a community property interest in the employee spouse's pension plan does not also entitle the nonemployee spouse to survivor benefits." Reversed.
Court: Nevada Court of Appeals, Judge: Gibbons , Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 86043-COA, Categories: Family Law, Property
J. Olson finds that the trial court properly denied a beauty product manufacturer’s motion for non-suit in this case wherein the daughter of a deceased hairdresser alleges her mother contracted mesothelioma as a result of decades of being exposed to the company’s asbestos-containing beauty products. The manufacturer failed to provide evidence that the asbestos claim lacked merit. Affirmed in part.
Court: Pennsylvania Superior Court, Judge: Olson, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: J-A28007-23, Categories: Civil Procedure, Wrongful Death, Asbestos
J. Ross finds a Long Island surgical practice’s claims against a union benefits fund for breach of contract and unjust enrichment, alleging failure to provide reimbursement for medical services, are preempted by ERISA and declines to remand the case back to state court.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Ross, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv6145, NOS: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) - Labor, Categories: Erisa, Contract, Labor / Unions
J. Breedlove finds that the lower court properly entered a bond ruling, in which it "determined that the joint bond does not suspend enforcement of the judgment as to all judgment debtors" and ordered the debtors to designate which debtor the supersedeas bond applies to. Contrary to the judgment debtors' argument on appeal, the $25 million statutory cap "applies per judgment debtor, not per judgment." Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Breedlove, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 05-23-01168-CV, Categories: Civil Procedure, Damages
J. Palafox finds a lower court did not err in revoking defendant’s community supervision for failing to submit to drug tests after he pleaded guilty to heroin possession with a repeat-offender enhancement. Defendant argued he had not been given specific and adequate notice about the terms of his probation, but according to precedent from the Court of Criminal Appeals, a defendant waives their right to complain about probation terms if they don’t raise those complaints at trial. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Palafox, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 08-23-00237-CR, Categories: Drug Offender, Probation, Plea
J. Jensen finds that the circuit court properly entered conviction after defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of solicitation of a minor, one count of sexual contact with a minor under the age of sixteen and one count of rape in the fourth degree. Defendant claimed that his sentence contained an improper enhancement on his sentence after it had already commenced. Affirmed.
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court, Judge: Jensen, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 2024SD21, Categories: Sentencing, Sex Offender
J. Brody finds the trial court properly excluded expert testimony from a trip-and-fall trial because the individual missed the disclosure deadline. Future non-economic damages were excluded from jury consideration because the individual repeatedly testified that her memory loss may have been due to old age. Affirmed.
Court: Idaho Supreme Court, Judge: Brody, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 49916, Categories: Damages, Negligence, Experts
J. Tucher holds that the trial court must rehear defendant's motion for a new trial on charges of a lewd act upon a child and exhibiting harmful matter to a minor. The ex-wife's declaration that she and the alleged victim had schemed to falsely accuse him was newly discovered evidence. The trial court's analysis discounting the ex-wife's declaration was flawed since the declaration contradicted the strongest evidence against defendant. Vacated.
Court: California Courts Of Appeal, Judge: Tucher, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: A167246, Categories: Evidence, Sex Offender
[Consolidated.] J. Nega finds for the commissioner of internal revenue in this tax liability complaint because settlement proceeds received by the taxpayers in underlying litigation are taxable.
Court: U.S. Tax Court, Judge: Nega, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 2024-42, Categories: Settlements, Tax
J. Brailsford denies the city's motion to dismiss a dispute with a landowner involving a prescriptive easement over a trail that crosses the city's parcel. The court has supplemental jurisdiction over the matter. The case law the government cites does not support its proposition that the state's common ownership of the parcel "cannot satisfy the unity of title requirement for establishing an implied easement."
Court: USDC Idaho, Judge: Brailsford, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv47, NOS: All Other Real Property - Real Property, Categories: Real Estate
J. Dever grants a hospice care company’s motion to dismiss False Claims Act (FCA) allegations brought by a former home hospice case manager. The manager claims the company committed Medicare fraud by falsely reporting hospice patients’ medical conditions in order to recertify them. However, as this is a qui tam claim and other managers already initiated similar actions previously, the FCA’s first-to-file rule applies and the manager’s suit is barred.
Court: USDC Eastern District of North Carolina, Judge: Dever, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 7:20cv90, NOS: False Claims Act - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Fraud, Health Care, Medicare
J. Whitney partially grants a husband and wife’s motion to alter judgment in this personal injury case against the husband’s former employer, a farm and its owner. Previously, the court ruled in favor of the husband, who had been injured on the job, and his wife, for the farm’s negligence and the wife’s loss of consortium for over $2 million. The husband and wife are correct to say they are owed post-judgment interest, which is now awarded.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Whitney, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv413, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Employment, Tort, Negligence