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MEMORANDUM OPINION MANUEL BARBOSA, Bankruptcy Judge. The Chapter 7 Trustee filed an adversary proceeding against the Debtor’s ex-wife seeking to avoid an unequal division of property under a marital settlement agreement signed 1.5 years before the Debtor’s petition date as a fraudulent transfer. For the reasons stated below, the Trustee failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that the unequal d

268 B.R. 912 (2001) In re Richard Lynn KEENER, Debtor. Donna Christie, Trustee, Plaintiff, v. First State Bank of Stratford, B.A. Donelson, and Rick Reinhart, Defendants. Bankruptcy No. 00-20774-7. Adversary No. 01-2003. United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Texas, Amarillo Division. October 1, 2001. *913

213 Ga. App. 46 (1994) 443 S.E.2d 679 CHANDLER v. THE STATE. A94A0724. Court of Appeals of Georgia. Decided April 18, 1994. Luana K. Walsh, for appellant. Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Penny A. Penn, Vivian D. Hoard, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee. BIRDSONG, Presiding Judge. Appellant Shelt

Hunt, Presiding Justice. Anthony Williams shot and killed Derrick Dollar with a handgun. He was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.1 He appeals and we affirm. 1. We have reviewed the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s determination and conclude that a rational trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty of the crimes for which he

JUSTICE GREEN delivered the opinion of the Court. After a tragic accident, a deceased derrick hand’s parents sued the company that owned the drilling rig upon which the fatal accident occurred. The drilling company demanded that its commercial general liability (CGL) insurers defend it in the litigation. - The insurers refused based on lack of coverage. The pa

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON Assigned on Briefs January 5, 2011 STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ANTONIO L. SAULSBERRY Appeal from the Criminal Court for Shelby County No. 95-07822 Lee V. Coffee, Judge No. W2010-01326-CCA-R3-CD - Filed April 7, 2011 The defendant, Antonio L. Saulsberry, was convicted by a Shelby County Criminal Court jury of mu

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 22-1853 TO-RICOS, LTD., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. PRODUCTOS AVÍCOLAS DEL SUR, INC., Defendant, Appellant. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO [Hon. Jay A. García-Gregory, U.S. District Judge]

MANION, Circuit Judge. After Stacy Ernst and four other women applied unsuccessfully to work as Chicago paramedics, they brought this Title VII gender-discrimination lawsuit against the City of Chicago. These women were experienced paramedics from public and private providers of emergency medical services; they sought employment as paramedics with the Chicago Fire Department, but

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER JOAN B. GOTTSCHALL, District Judge. Plaintiff Darrick Hundt sued his employer, DireetSat USA, LLC, its corporate parents, UniTek USA, LLC, and three corporate officers, Elizabeth Downey, Cathy Lawley, and Dan Yannantuono, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., and the Illinois Minimum Wage Act (the “IMWA”), 815 Ill.

619 F.Supp. 1465 (1985) EARTH SCIENTISTS (PETRO SERVICES) LTD., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY, Defendant. Civ. A. No. 84-2204. United States District Court, D. Kansas. October 17, 1985. *1466 *1467 Jerry K. Levy, Levy, Smith Garrett & Smith, Topeka, Kan., for

No. 123,017 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS ALLIANCE WELL SERVICE, INC., AMIGOS WELL SERVICE, INC., and REDLINE WELL SERVICE, LLC, Appellants, v. PRATT COUNTY, KANSAS,

Berry, J. In this appeal, we address the evidentiary standards that govern the admission of grand jury statements when the witness recants the statements during trial and then gives inconsistent testimony, in circumstances where the recanted grand jury statements constitute the proof of an essential element of the offense — here, the element of possession of a knife in the offense of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weap

Opinion and Order of June 22, 2012 POSNER, Circuit Judge. In my opinion and order of May 22, following the Daubert hearing held on the 16th, I ruled that proposed testimony by three of the parties’ damages experts (one for Apple and two for Motorola) was inadmissible. Apple, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc., No. 1:11-cv-8540, 2012 WL 1959560 (N.D.Ill. May 22, 2012); see Fed.R.Evid. 702, 703. This rul

Mills, J. At the time their personal relationship ended, the complainant Jones and defendant Gallagher were coworkers in a school system. After their break-up, Gallagher authored a *884poem with some violent imagery that expressed his emotional upheaval.1 The poem (which appears as an Appendix to this opinion) came into Jones’s possession and

Opinion issued March 29, 2024 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas ———————————— NO. 01-23-00713-CV ——————————— IN THE INTEREST OF J.C.D.Y. AKA J.Y., J.E.D.Y. AKA J.Y., M.M.D.Y. AKA M.Y., I.E.J. AKA I.J., M.D.K.G. AKA M.Y. AKA M.O.D.Y., and

HOOD, Judge. Plaintiff executed an oil, gas and mineral lease affecting a 42.5-acre tract of land owned by him in Evangeline Parish. Pursuant to the rights granted by that lease, a well was drilled on the leased premises in search of oil, but it resulted in a dry hole. Plaintiff instituted this suit for damages for loss of crops and injury to his land, which damages he alleges resulted from these drilling operations and the fa

989 F.Supp. 1131 (1997) IN RE INDEPENDENT SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Civil Action No. MDL-1021. United States District Court, D. Kansas. December 22, 1997. *1132 P. John Owen, Morrison & Hecker L.L.P., Kansas City, MO, Eric D. Braverman, Employers Reinsurance Corporation, Overland Park, KS, Lori R. Schultz, Morrison

Riley, J. Introduction This case involves three separate appeals resulting from a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs Nicholas and Nancy Bosak for personal injuries suffered by the former at a construction site accident. (Hereinafter, use of plaintiff in the singular will refer to Nicholas Bosak.) The general contractor on the construction project

Halpern, J. This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment for the defendant entered upon a jury verdict of no cause of action. In view of the narrow question of law upon which this appeal turns, there is no need to review the conflicting evidence in detail. It is sufficient for the purpose of this appeal to state the factual background of the problem briefly as follows: The defendant was engaged under a c

SMITH, Circuit Judge. The National Labor Relations Board found Respondent, Plumbers Union of Nassau County, Local 457, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, had threatened and coerced neutral employers on a building construction job to cease doing business with Bady, the non-union plumbing contractor on the job, within the meaning o