Cases

IN THE ARIZONA COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION ONE LEGACY FOUNDATION ACTION FUND, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. CITIZENS CLEAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION, Defendant/Appellee. No. 1 CA-CV 19-0773 FILED 1-20-2022 Appeal from the Superior Court in Maricopa County Nos. CV2018-004532 CV2018-006

Charles Riley, Jr. Revocable Trust, et al. v. Venice Beach Citizens Association, Inc., No. 5, September Term, 2023. Opinion by Gould, J. SUMMARY JUDGMENT – PRIOR GRANTING OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT - IMPLICATION The Supreme Court of Maryland held that a circuit court abused its discretion in vacating a prior order granting partial summary judgment. A court’s decision to vacate a prior order is reviewed for an abuse of discretion; reversal of the circuit court is appropriate if the court’s decision is

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., Respondent, v. Ronald D. Taylor and Ted D. Smith, Defendants, Ex Parte: Smith Family, LLC, WHS Properties, LLC, and Wanda H. Smith, Appellants. Appellate Case No. 2017-001700 Appeal From Greenville County Charles B. Simmons, Jr., Circuit Court Judge Opinion No. 5739 Submitted February 18, 2020 – Filed July 8, 2020

POOLER, Circuit Judge: *378Plaintiffs-Appellants Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation ("Appellants") sue Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for the regulations promulgated by his office that require non-profit organizations to disclose their donors on a yearly basis. Appellants primary claim is that these regulations violate the Fir

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., Respondent, v. Ronald D. Taylor and Ted D. Smith, Defendants, Ex Parte: Smith Family, LLC, WHS Properties, LLC, and Wanda H. Smith, Appellants. Appellate Case No. 2017-001700 Appeal From Greenville County Charles B. Simmons, Jr., Circuit Court Judge Opinion No. 5739 Submitted February 18, 2020 – Filed July 8, 2020

In practice, determining whether plaintiffs are "similarly situated" under the FLSA involves considering all relevant factors, such as, "whether the plaintiffs are employed in the same corporate department, division, and location; whether they advance similar claims; whether they seek substantially the same form of relief; and ... [whether they have] individualized defenses." Zavala ,

Memorandum of Decision & Order SPATT, District Judge: On April 19, 2016, the Appellant Citizens Bank (the “Bank”) commenced the present appeal from a Memorandum Decision (the “Underlying Decision”) of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York (Grossman, J.). The Bank contended that, in an adversary proceeding, the Bankruptcy Court’s entry of a default judgment against it, an

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, dissenting. Although I acknowledge that this is a close case, I cannot agree with my colleagues that Barbara Fawcett's complaint should be dismissed as a matter of law for failure to state a claim. Fawcett insists that, at a minimum, she is entitled to seek *141information about the rationales and factual basis for Citize

Watts, J. **628This case concerns the timeliness of the filing of a notice of appeal, and whether the Court of Special Appeals improperly dismissed an appeal as premature. Under the circumstances of this case, we exercise our discretion to hold, pursuant to Maryland Rule 8-602(g)(1)(D), that the notice of appeal filed by the petitioner should b

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge Just under a year ago, two government-watchdog groups filed suit accusing Scott Pruitt, who was then leading the Environmental Protection Agency, of deliberately setting up a system to skirt federal-records laws. Since then, the landscape at EPA has changed. As even a casual reader of the news will know, Pruitt is no longer at the Agency's helm. Perhaps less well known, but equally sig

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA24-309 Filed 3 December 2024 Moore County, No. 22 CVS 515 NC CITIZENS FOR TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT, INC. and KEVIN DRUM, Plaintiffs, v. THE VILLAGE OF PINEHURST and JOHN STRICKLAND in his official capacity as Mayor of the Village of Pinehurst; and JANE HOGEMAN in her official capacity as a member of the Village of Pinehurst Council, Defendants. Appea

CHAVEZ, J. *809Defendants and appellants Applied Underwriters, Inc. (Applied Underwriters), California Insurance Company (CIC), Continental Indemnity Company (CNI), Applied Risk Services, Inc., Joan Sheppard, Westin Fredrick Penfield, and Michael Scott Wichman (collectively, defendants) appeal from an order denying their petition to compel arbi

ORDER JOSEPH A. DiCLERICO, JR., District Judge. Lewis B. Sykes, Jr. brought suit in state court against RBS Citizens, N.A.(“RBS”); CCO Mortgage Corporation (“CCO”); Federal National Mortgage Association (“FNMA”); Bank of America, N.A. (“Bank of America”); Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM”); and Citibank, N.A. (“Citibank”), alleging claims arising from the defendants’ involvement in the foreclosur

JAMES D. PETERSON, District Judge Plaintiffs contend that 2017 Wisconsin Act 369, enacted by the Wisconsin legislature in December 2018, violates injunctions issued in this case in 2016. So plaintiffs seek an order enforcing the injunction against three provisions of Act 369: (1) limits on the time for in-person absentee voting; (2) restrictions on the use of student identification cards for voting; and (3) a time limit on the valid

*2 ON MOTION FOR REHEARING PER CURIAM. We deny the appellee’s motion for rehearing, but withdraw our opinion dated April 9, 2014, and issue the following in its place. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation appeals the trial court’s order denying its right to attorney’s fees. We determine that the trial court erred in applying th

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part: I concur with the majority that Citizens United must comply with Colorado’s campaign disclosure requirements for advertisements relating to its new film, Rocky Mountain Heist. See Maj. Op. at 216-17. I respectfully dissent from the majority’s reversal of the district court’s decision requiring that Citi

OPINION DOWNIE, Judge. ¶ 1 The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether qualified electors may maintain a private cause of action based on alleged violations of Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) section 16-915.01 (disposal and use of surplus monies held by political committees). We conclude no such private right of action exists and therefore affirm

KUNSELMAN, P.J., This declaratory judgment action is before the court on a motion for summary judgment filed on behalf of the plaintiff, Judith Trumbetic. The defendant, Nancy M. Danylo, did not file a response to Trumbetic’s motion because it was not endorsed with a notice to plead. The defendant, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, did not file a response because it has been dismissed from the action by stipulation of the p

OPINION & ORDER JAMES D. PETERSON, District Judge Since 2010, the Wisconsin legislature has undertaken a legislative program that has significantly changed the state’s election laws. The most significant new law is 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 (Act 23), which requires voters to present one of several specified types of photo ID. But Act 23 and a handful of other new laws contain approximately a dozen new pro

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendants Jeffrey Galperin and Sallie Galperin appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Giacomo, J.), entered November 12, 2014, as granted those branches of the plaintiff’s motion which were for summary judgment on the complaint and to appoint a referee to compute. Ordered that the order