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ROBERT J. GLADWIN, Chief Judge |,Appellant Louis Butler appeals the February 21, 2014 order of the Pulaski County Circuit Court awarding appellee Lover Finley $85,286.39 in actual damages and $100,000 in punitive damages. He argues that there was insufficient evidence that he committed the tort of conversion. We affirm. D

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge: *1328 This appeal requires us to decide whether two municipal judges enjoy absolute judicial immunity and a mayor and two police chiefs enjoy qualified immunity from a complaint alleging claims of peonage and false imprisonment. Several residents of Montgom

96 Cal.Rptr.2d 128 (2000) 80 Cal.App.4th 1152 Warren T. FINLEY, as Trustee, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT for the County of Orange, Respondent; Third Laguna Hills Mutual et al., Real Parties in Interest. Warren T. Finley, as Trustee, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Third Laguna Hills Mutual et al., Defendants and Respondents. Nos. E024743, E024843. <

MOORE, Judge. Glenda N. Finley appeals from a judgment entered by the Etowah Circuit Court (“the circuit court”) awarding Matthew McCoy a 30-foot right-of-way over her property located in Etowah County (“the Finley property”) and finding that Matthew had an easement by prescription and an easement by implication over the Finley property. We affirm the trial court’s judgment. Procedural History <

Robert D. Mariani, United States District Judge I. INTRODUCTION AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY This is an action for several causes under Pennsylvania state law arising from an acrimonious business dispute between Plaintiff, Michael Martin ("Plaintiff" or "Martin"), and two of his fellow business partners in a medical device company based in Scranton, Med-Dev Corporation ("Med-Dev"), Defendants Thomas Finle

601 N.E.2d 699 (1992) 151 Ill.2d 95 176 Ill.Dec. 1 In re ESTATE OF Shawn A. FINLEY (Antron Finley et al., Appellants, v. Taoufik Zemmel, Special Adm'r of the Estate of Shawn Finley, Deceased, et al., Appellees). No. 71800. Supreme Court of Illinois. October 1, 1992. Robert G. Kirchner, Lerner & Kirchner, Champaign,

MR. JUSTICE HASWELL delivered the Opinion of the Court. This is an appeal by a bonding company from an order of the district court of Lake County, refusing to vacate a bail bond forfeiture. Richard Finley, defendant in this action, plead guilty to a charge of first degree assault. He was released when his surety, Inland Bonding Company, posted their $2,500 bail bond. He was ordered to appear

| .PER CURIAM. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Tracy Smith Porto, with regard to a promissory note issued in connection with a non-compete agreement. This agreement is contained within a September 17, 2002 Credit Sale between Porto and the defendant, Finley C. Matthews, Jr., providing for the sale of Porto’s interest in Advanced Therapy Solutions, Inc. to Matthews. The promissory

PER CURIAM. Motion for an appeal from a judgment of the Shelby Circuit Court, Plon. Coleman Wright, Judge, declaring the will of James Williams, Sr., devised a life estate in a house and lot in Shelby County to his widow, Mary Williams, and that testator died intestate as to the remainder interest in this real estate which at testator’s death passed to his son as his sole heir-at-law, appellee James Williams, who now has tit

720 F.Supp.2d 792 (2010) ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANDISING TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert E. HOUCHIN, Defendant. No. 4:09-CV-187-A. United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Fort Worth Division. April 1, 2010. *793 Daniel L. Bates, Geoffrey A. Mantooth, Decker Jones McMackin McClane Hall & Bates, Fort Worth, TX,

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MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER BERNICE B. DONALD, District Judge. This matter came before the Court for a non-jury trial, which was held December 20-21, 2010. Plaintiff John Branson (“Plaintiff”) brought claims of sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. (“Title VII”), and age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C.

524 U.S. 569 (1998) NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS et al. v. FINLEY et al. No. 97-371. United States Supreme Court. Argued March 31, 1998. Decided June 25, 1998. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT *570 *571 O'CONNOR, J., delivered the opini

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO TRANSFER VENUE RICHARD A. SCHELL, District Judge. Pending before the court is the Defendant’s “Motion and Brief in Support of Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction and Venue, or in the Alternative, to Transfer Venue” (docket entry #7). After considering the Defendant’s motion, the Plaintiffs response in opposition (docket entry # 1

Rel: December 20, 2024 Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the advance sheets of Southern Reporter. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Alabama Appellate Courts, 300 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104-3741 ((334) 229-0650), of any typographical or other errors, in order that corrections may be made before the opinion is published in Southern Reporter. Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Ha Khounlo appeals from a district court order denying a motion to continue the trial of a medical malpractice case. We affirm. On April 18, 2003, Ha Khounlo and several others filed a petition alleging Ha received negligent treatment at the emergency department of Iowa Methodist Center on December 2 and 3, 2001.1 The suit named Ha's treating physician, Dr. Barbara Moats, Health System Emergency Physicians, P.C., and Central Io

No. 12652 I N T E SUPREME C U T O T E STATE O M N A A H O R F H F OTN 1974 THE STATE OF MONTANA, P l a i n t i f f and Respondent, RICHARD JAMES FINLEY, Defendant, and INLAND BONDING COMPANY, Appellant. Appeal from: D i s t r i c t Court o f t h e Fourth J u d i c

375 B.R. 764 (2007) In re SCOTIA DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Debtors. No. 07-20027. United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division. April 5, 2007. *765 Eric J. Fromme, J. Scot Kennedy, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA, James Matthew Vaughn, John F. Higgins, IV, Joshua Walton Wolfshohl, Porter & Hedges LLP, Kyung

Peters, C. J. This appeal involves claims of an employee that he was wrongfully discharged despite assurances of lifelong employment so long as his performance remained satisfactory. The plaintiff, Thomas *192P. Finley, brought an action in three counts against the defendant, Aetna Life & Casualty Company, alleging that the defendant’s termination of his employment wa

MANSFIELD, Justice. This case presents the question whether Iowa Code sections 249A.44(3) and 680.7 authorize the payment of a receiver’s expenses out of property in which a secured creditor had a prior perfected security interest. Guided in part by the principle that we avoid interpreting ambiguous statutes in a manner that leads to constitutional difficulties, we hold these sec