CITY ANNEXATION: Separate tracts may be combined under “Wholly Surrounding Land” statute… objecting owners in surrounded area… Allison affirmed. [Read more…]
Negligence, $59,500 MVA verdict reversed
NEGLIGENCE: Medical panel report improperly let MVA Defendant put doctors’ opinions that Plaintiff could return to job in record without calling them to testify, $59,500 verdict reversed, remanded for new trial… original medical bills should be allowed pursuant to Meek… parts of deposition based on post-disclosure medical records properly excluded… Ulbricht reversed, affirmed. [Read more…]
Illegal execution, law firm, 12(b)(6) dismissal
ILLEGAL EXECUTION: Conversion, abuse of process, wrongful levy claims against law firm alleging wrongful seizure of everything in home “not nailed down” to leverage settlement of $482,499 land sale verdict improperly dismissed for failure to state claim… constitutional claims properly dismissed… Stadler, reversed, [Read more…]
Inverse condemnation, subdivision steep slope
INVERSE CONDEMNATION: Remedy for taking/ damage claim resulting from City’s alleged improvident approval of subdivision and building permit on steep slope does not pass to property owners who purchased after the approvals… Ulbricht. [Read more…]