Cases

COMBS, Judge. In this proceeding appellant seeks to set aside a summary judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court dismissing his complaint with prejudice. Appellant is the brother of and committee for his sister, Gladys Melone, a 61-year old incompetent who has a mental age of six years. The incompetent is rather short and quite obese, weighing approximately 300 pounds. The incompetent lived with appellant

Condon, J. This bill in equity for partition of real estate and an accounting is here on the respondent’s appeal from a decree of the superior court dismissing her exceptions to the report of the master to whom the cause had been duly referred, and from a final decree entered thereafter by that court confirming such report. After the cause was ready for hearing on bill, answer and replication and it appearing

Opinion RAYE, P. J. California requires public owners of water conveyance facilities with unused capacity to make them available to others in return for “fair compensation.” In this long-simmering dispute between Central San Joaquin Water Conservation District (Central), which supplies surface water to agricultural customers, and Stockton East Water District

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OPINION BERZON, Circuit Judge: We consider challenges to the decision of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw from new uranium mining claims, for up to twenty years, over one million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park. Determining the appropriate balance between safeguarding an iconic American natural w

BRADY, Judge MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER (May 12, 2016) THIS MATTER is in the Appellate Division on review from the Magistrate Division. Carlos Warehouse commenced an action in the Small Claims Division against Emril F. Thomas to recover a debt she owed for furniture purchased on credit. After a hearing, the Magistrate Court dismissed Carlos Warehouse’s complaint with prejudice.

542 F.Supp.2d 1160 (2008) In re COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL CORP. DERIVATIVE LITIGATION. In re Countrywide Financial Corp. Securities Litigation. Lead Case Nos. CV-07-06923-MRP (MANx), CV-07-05295-MRP (MANx). United States District Court, CD. California. March 28, 2008. *1163 Blair A. Nicholas, David A. Thorpe, Matthew P. Siben, Niki L. Me

621 F.Supp.2d 954 (2009) NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dirk KEMPTHORNE, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, et al., Defendants. San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District, et al., Joined Parties. No. 1:05-CV-01207 OWW SMS. United States District Court, E.D. California.

Opinion LUCAS, C. J. In these mandate proceedings, we are called on to resolve the impasse created by the failure of the Legislature and Governor to adopt congressional, legislative and State Board of Equalization reapportionment plans in time for the forthcoming 1992 Primary and General Elections. (See Cal. Const., art. XXI, § 1.) On Septembe

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Honorable Thomas M. Durkin, United States District Judge Plaintiff DeMarco Nichols filed this lawsuit under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, against the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Illinois Department of Central Management System (CMS). IDOT is Nichols.’s former employer, and CMS is a state agency with responsibility for overseeing and implementing the sta

CHASEZ, Judge. Relator, Louise Cousin Pritchard, brought this action in mandamus to compel the Louisana State Board of Health, through its president, Dr. T. N. Armistead, to correct her birth certificate, which designates her as “COLORED”, to reflect that she is a member of the white race. The defendant responded and refused to comply with the plaintiff’s demand. After a trial, the Court below rendered judg

Chief Justice RABNER, concurring. By order dated September 8, 2010, the Presiding Judge for Administration of the Appellate Division, the Honorable Edwin H. Stern, was temporarily assigned to the Supreme Court until further order. As a result, he participated in the resolution of this matter and authored the majority opinion. Article VI, Section II, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constituti

787 F.Supp. 1030 (1991) John F. KNIGHT, Jr., Alma S. Freeman, John T. Gibson, Susan Buskey, Carl Petty, Dennis Charles Barnett by his father Arthur D. Barnett, Vonda Cross, Tammi Palmer, Alease S. Sims, Stacey Levise Sims by her parents Levi Sims and Alease S. Sims, Gary Mitchell, Jr., Grover L. Brown, Frederick Carodine, Frankie Patricia Yarbrough, Dr. Charles Edwards McMillan, Horace W. Rice, Anthony Y. Lavonne Thompson by his mother Lois N. Thompson,

O’Brien, S. This trial of the issue of the status of a contestant in the pending probate proceeding began on October 19, 1931, and with the exception of a recess of one day in November, and of three and a half days in Christmas week occasioned by the death of decedent’s sister, continued without interruption until Monday, January 11, 1932, at two p. m.; 149 witnesses were called in the trial, 834 exhibits were marked in evidence a