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Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC13-54 ____________ KIMBERLY ANN MILES, et al., Petitioners, vs. DANIEL WEINGRAD, M.D., Respondent. [May 21, 2015] PERRY, J. Kimberly Ann

MEAD, J. [¶ 1] Shannon Bean appeals from a judgment entered by the trial court (O’Neil, J.) following a jury verdict convicting her of domestic violence assault (Class D), 17-A M.R.S. § 207-A(l)(A) (2012). Bean contends that the State’s closing argument contained statements that impermissibly referred to her decision not to testify in her own defense, requiring

Opinion of the Court by Justice NOBLE. This case presents two primary questions. First, is the sole member of a limited liability company liable under a lease expressly stating that the company is the tenant even though the lease is the product of a release that does not mention the member’s company capacity or the company in any direct way? Second, assuming the member has not directly obligated herself, can sh

PER CURIAM: Susan Mead participated in a group long-term disability (“LTD”) insurance policy administered by Reliastar Life Insurance Company (“Reliastar”). Mead, who suffers from degenerative cervical disc disease, sought LTD benefits under this policy, asserting that her “total disability” prevented her from performing her own occupation or any other. Reliastar denied her claim,

GORSUCH, Circuit Judge, dissenting. If a seventh grader starts trading fake burps for laughs in gym class, what’s a teacher to do? Order extra laps? Detention? A trip to the principal’s office? Maybe. But then again, maybe that’s too old school. Maybe today you call a police officer. And maybe today the officer decides that, instead of just escorting the now compliant thirteen year old to the principal’s offic

PER CURIAM. This appeal challenges an order dismissing the complaint of a trust beneficiary who challenges, among other things, a former trustee’s Final Accounting of the trust. The trial court dismissed Mr. May’s complaint on res judicata grounds. For the following reasons, we affirm in part and reverse in part. “To rule on a motion to dismiss, a court’s gaze is limited to the four corners of the c

MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions Decision: 2025 ME 88 Docket: Ken-24-447 Argued: June 4, 2025 Decided: August 29, 2025 Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and MEAD, HORTON, CONNORS, LAWRENCE, and DOUGLAS, JJ. STATE OF MAINE v. HEATHER M. HODGSON DOUGLAS, J. [¶1] In this consolidated appeal, Heather M. Hodgson ap

PER CURIAM. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court properly granted a motion for involuntary dismissal of an incapacity proceeding. Appellant H. Lee Mills filed a petition to determine the capacity of his mother, Appellee Helen M. Mills,1 in order to potentially challenge certain changes that were made to his parents’ estate planning documents by other family members. In his petition, Mr.

FILED SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 In the Office of the Clerk of Court WA State Court of Appeals, Division III IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON DIVISION THREE STATE OF WASHINGTON,

JABAR, J. [¶ 1] David M. Wyman appeals from a judgment of conviction of perjury (Class C), 17-A M.R.S. § 451(1)(A) (2014), entered by the trial court (Anderson, J.) after a jury trial. David contends that the State failed to present direct evidence of the falsity of his testimony that gave rise to the perjury charge and that the evidence was therefore insuf

W.H.“Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice. This is an appeal asking us to reconsider our decisions in Carr v. Turner, 238 Ark. 889, 385 S.W.2d 656 (1965), and the line of decisions following that ruling in which we determined that there is no liability imposed upon one who sells intoxicants to minors for injuries caused by minors who became inebriated. Appellant asks us to modify our rule to allow the issue of wheth

BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge: Following a bench trial, appellee M Street Five, LLC (“M Street Five”) was granted possession of the commercial property located at 3213 M Street N.W., Washington, D.C. (the “Property), on the basis that the lease extension agreement between the parties was void because appellant Alex Brown (“Brown”) d/b/a Papillon Stores, Inc. (“Papillon”), lacked contractual capacity to enter into a leas

WALLACE, Judge. Lane A. Houk challenges a final summary judgment of foreclosure entered in favor of PennyMac Corp., an entity that was substituted as the party plaintiff in place of CitiMortgage, Inc., during the pendency of the litigation in the circuit court. Because a genuine issue of material fact exists regarding PennyMac’s standing to foreclose, we reverse.

In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-22-00345-CV ___________________________ VIVIAN CASPER, Appellant V. TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY, ABIGAIL TILTON, SHANNON SCOTT, GENEVIEVE WEST, SYMONE OSIEKO, CARINE FEYTEN, CAROLYN KAPINUS, AND KATHERINE ANTWI GRE

(2008) Kevin B. ELLIS, Plaintiff v. YUM! BRANDS, INC., Defendants. Civil Action No. 3:06-CV-235-S. United States District Court, W.D. Kentucky, at Louisville. April 28, 2008. MEMORANDUM OPINION CHARLES R. SIMPSON III, District Judge. This matter is before the court upon the motion of the defendant YUM! Brands, Inc. ("Yum"), for summary

PER CURIAM [¶ 1] The Superior Court (Kennebec County, Murphy, J. ) has reported seven questions to us pursuant to M.R. App. P. 24(a), addressing the Secretary of State's planned implementation of ranked-choice voting in Maine's primary elections scheduled for June 12, 2018. 1 The first th

FILED United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit PUBLISH July 25, 2016 Elisabeth A. Shumaker UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Clerk of Court

783 P.2d 942 (1989) John Robert SHANNON aka Kurt Kenya, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent. No. 18316. Supreme Court of Nevada. December 6, 1989. *943 Peter L. Flangas, Las Vegas, for appellant. Brian McKay, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Rex Bell, Dist. Atty., Michael N. O'Callaghan, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, fo

GIBBONS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which SILER, J., joined. DAUGHTREY, J. (pp. 783-84), delivered a separate dissenting opinion. OPINION GIBBONS, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Broadcast Music Inc. (“BMI”) filed this interpleader action to determine what portion of the1 interpleaded funds it is required to pay to defendant-appellee Shannon Miller

IN THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING 2021 WY 3 OCTOBER TERM, A.D. 2020 January 7, 2021 PRANCING ANTELOPE I, LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company; CHRIS SHANNON and CYNTHIA G. BLOOMQUIST, Appellants (Defendants), S-20-0052