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PFMA, ineffective assistance

March 21, 2026 By lilly

PFMA: Convictions affirmed without prejudice to pursue postconviction relief as to alleged ineffective assistance… Menahan affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court – Criminal Tagged With: Christine Hutchison, Dan Baris, Fallon Stanton, James Murnion

Defense verdict, motorcycle/truck

March 21, 2026 By lilly

VERDICT: Defense, motorcycle crash into U-turning truck. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, State Trial Courts Tagged With: Daniel Buckley, Henry Westesen, Jeffrey Roth, John Nesbitt

Drag Story Hour, preliminary injunction against HB 359

March 21, 2026 By lilly

DRAG STORY HOUR: Preliminary injunction against HB 359 affirmed… Morris affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Ninth Circuit Court, Past Issues Tagged With: Alex Rate, Alwyn Lansing, Constance Van Kley, Emerson Sykes, Emily Jones, Joshua Block, Megan Shaw, Michael Noonan, Michael Russell, Niki Zupanic, Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, Thane Johnson

Low-income housing partnership, valuation appraisal

March 21, 2026 By lilly

LOW-INCOME HOUSING LP appraised with discounted cash flow methodology at $640,000 rather than Defendant’s sale value method at $3,953,124… Morris. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal Trial Courts, Past Issues Tagged With: Cathy Moses, Edward Quigley, John Amsden, Mike Black, Sam Johnston

Negligence, 3-vehicle icy road crash, spoliation, experts

March 14, 2026 By lilly

NEGLIGENCE: Summary judgment improperly granted to Defendant in 3-vehicle icy road crash… default judgment properly denied for spoliation of truck’s speed data… no abuse of discretion in denying Plaintiff’s motion to compel and granting Defendant a protective order regarding expert qualifications… remanded for trial… Cybulski affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Ian Gillespie, Martha Sheehy

Residential defects claims against City, rehearing denied

March 14, 2026 By lilly

REHEARING of holding that residential defects claims against City are precluded by statute of repose denied… Order. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Brian Miller, Brian Taylor, Greyson Hill, Ryan Addis

Parenting, insufficient evidence of sex abuse risk

March 14, 2026 By lilly

PARENTING: No clear error in finding insufficient evidence that husband posed a sex abuse risk to minor daughter and in reinstating unsupervised parenting time… No plain error in presiding over the show cause hearing via Zoom when Judge was too ill to travel… Abbott affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Margaret Rose, Marybeth Sampsel

Rape/kidnap/robbery, repeated use of “victim”

March 14, 2026 By lilly

RAPE/KIDNAP/ROBBERY: Defendant deprived of fair trial by repeated use of “victim” in reference to complaining witness and by admission of his request to his girlfriend that she “wipe” his phone… conviction reversed, remanded for a new trial… Marks reversed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court – Criminal Tagged With: Brian Lowney, Charlotte Lawson, Kristina Neal, Roy Brown

Postconviction, killed one deputy, injured another

March 14, 2026 By lilly

POSTCONVICTION claims of ineffective assistance in defending Defendant convicted of killing one deputy and wounding another in 2003 properly rejected without an evidentiary hearing… Olson affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court – Criminal Tagged With: Joseph Howard, Katie Schulz

Deliberate homicide, $72,000 restitution for lost profits

March 14, 2026 By lilly

DELIBERATE HOMICIDE conviction affirmed over challenge to denial of counsel substitution and incentivized co-defendant instruction… $72,000 restitution for loss of profits to family business not supported… Harris affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court – Criminal Tagged With: Gregory Hood, Hallie Bishop, Katie Schulz

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