Archives for 2020

Discrimination, advocacy group’s retaliation claim

April 18, 2020 By lilly

DISCRIMINATION: Supervisory control of Seeley’s dismissal of advocacy group’s retaliation claim against City for lack of standing denied… order. [Read more…]

Prisoners, petition to mandate jail reduction for COVID

April 18, 2020 By lilly

PRISONERS: Petition to mandate immediate reduction of population of jails and prisons because of COVID-19 pandemic denied… order. [Read more…]

Misrepresentation exemption from bankruptcy discharge

April 18, 2020 By lilly

BANKRUPTCY: $88,348.61 exception from discharge proper for false representations to lender… Morris affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

SSD denied

April 18, 2020 By lilly

SSD properly rejected… Morris affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Sentencing, supervised release not just for sex treatment

April 18, 2020 By lilly

SENTENCING: Supervised release not just for “unnecessary” sex treatment, but also as sanction for breaches of Court’s trust and public protection… Morris affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Insurance, employee’s meth “drug den”

April 18, 2020 By lilly

INSURANCE: Property damage to YMCA caused by employee’s meth “drug den” covered by commercial policy with ambiguous or undefined pollution/criminal act exclusions and vandalism/smoke exceptions… Molloy. [Read more…]

Settlements

April 18, 2020 By lilly

Plan I

Timothy Wilson, skull, 1/18, disputed, $55,000, Paul Toennis

Cassie Cervantez, wrist, 9/17, $36,294, Paul Toennis [Read more…]

Attorney fees, $511,463 v. $3,610,386 requested, class

April 11, 2020 By lilly

ATTORNEY FEES: $511,463.40 properly awarded to 2 Class Counsel following settlement of University System employee benefits class action, over requested $3,610,386… Plaintiffs entitled to post-judgment interest despite refusing to accept pending appeal… R. McElyea affirmed. [Read more…]

Wrongful discharge, municipal tolling, $75,612 verdict

April 11, 2020 By lilly

WRONGFUL DISCHARGE: Filing Notice of Claim with City does not toll statute as for State, claim untimely filed, should have been dismissed… $75,612 verdict reversed… Krueger reversed. [Read more…]

Right to know, deferred prosecution dismissal, mootness

April 11, 2020 By lilly

RIGHT TO KNOW: Newspaper’s request for documents and video related to Deputy’s arrest of individual and disciplinary records not mooted by deferred prosecution dismissal of charges against Deputy… Deschamps reversed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]