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Rehearing denied in subdivision access case

March 8, 2025 By lilly

REHEARING denied in subdivision access case as to abandonment of part of county road… Order. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Chris Johnson, Colleen Dowdall, Dana Hupp, Donald Murray, Richard DeJana, Susan Swimley, Tara DePuy

Subdivision roads, access to neighboring subdivision

February 8, 2025 By lilly

SUBDIVISION ROADS: Public access easements properly held not to include primary access to neighboring subdivision… Eddy affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Chris Johnson, Colleen Dowdall, Dana Hupp, Donald Murray, Richard DeJana, Susan Swimley, Tara DePuy

Easement, river bridge access

August 17, 2024 By lilly

EASEMENT: Subdivision owners properly found to have access rights across river bridge built by Defendant, not required to share in construction costs pursuant to terms of 1994 Easement Agreement… Larson affirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall, Donald Murray, Matt Rossmiller, Nicole Siefert

Estate theft, undue influence, fraud, conversion

July 29, 2023 By lilly

ESTATE THEFT summary judgment rulings affirmed, reversed… Gilbert affirmed, reversed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall

HOA water, HOA’s v. homeowners’ fault, IIED/NIED

October 29, 2022 By lilly

HOA WATER: Failure to disclose experts fatal to claim that HOA was responsible for water failure on newly purchased property or whether the system on the property itself caused the failure, as well as to IIED/NIED claims… Marks. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, State Trial Courts Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall, G. Patrick HagEstad

Easement, transaction documents reformed to intent

December 18, 2021 By lilly

EASEMENT: Transaction documents properly reformed to align with intent to reserve easement over existing road… Eddy affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall, Randall Snyder

Initiatives, sewer project repeal

June 13, 2020 By lilly

INITIATIVES: Petitions to mandate placement on ballot of initiatives to repeal sewer project denied, one for lack of clear legal duty by Election Administrator in administrative action or abuse of discretion by local attorney’s advisement, one by laches… Deschamps. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, State Trial Courts Tagged With: Brian West, Colleen Dowdall, John Hart

Discovery sanctions, sewer system challenge abuse

May 30, 2020 By lilly

DISCOVERY: Suit to halt sewer system dismissed (without prejudice) as sanction for prejudicial dilatory discovery abuse… any re-filing will be subject to a surety bond… Halligan. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, State Trial Courts Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall, Jacob Anderson, John Hart, Jon Beal, Shaelynn Neel

Sewer district challenge by property owners

November 9, 2019 By lilly

SEWER DISTRICT: All claims except declaratory action by property owners challenging formation of district dismissed for failure to state claim… parties schooled on how to frame allegations and defenses… Halligan. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, State Trial Courts Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall, Jacob Anderson, John Hart, Jon Beal

Easement, prescriptive v. express, prelim injunction

November 19, 2016 By lilly

EASEMENT: Preliminary injunction properly granted on prescriptive easement theory (does not preclude express public easement theory), but improperly limited to passenger vehicles… Reynolds affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Past Issues, Supreme Court - Civil Tagged With: Colleen Dowdall, Jesse Kodadek, John Doubek, Timothy McKeon

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