CLASS CERTIFICATION: Class involving complaint that the State violated group health insureds’ made-whole rights by subrogating without made-whole analyses properly defined as only insureds who had timely filed claims for benefits… Sherlock affirmed. [Read more…]
Ditch easement
DITCH EASEMENT claim properly denied… Langton affirmed. [Read more…]
Road easements, lakeshore lots
ROAD EASEMENTS not established by lakeshore owners to developer’s adjacent land… McLean affirmed. [Read more…]
Property, specific performance, $600,001 verdict
PROPERTY: $600,001 verdict, specific performance, $176,834 attorney fees, arising out of dizzying array of land transfers, assignments, corporate metamorphoses, abuse of process, deceit affirmed… Plaintiff entitled to appeal fees… Tucker mostly affirmed. [Read more…]
Water, Teton River diversion
WATER: Certification to Water Court, injunctive relief, in challenge to Commissioner’s diversion of Teton River improperly denied… McKinnon reversed. [Read more…]
Book fraud, fiction v. non-fiction
BOOK FRAUD: RICO claims that purported nonfiction books (Three Cups of Tea, Stones Into Schools) about humanitarian efforts in Pakistan are actually fiction and part of scheme to defraud purchasers implausible… fraud/ deceit claims implausible for lack of reliance on some particular statement by Defendants outside text of books… contract/implied [Read more…]
Work comp privacy, CCJI, surveillance videos
WORK COMP PRIVACY: MSF correctly authorized to disseminate CCJI from surveillance videos of comp claimant… Reynolds affirmed. [Read more…]
Work comp privacy, criminal justice information
WORK COMP PRIVACY: Declaratory/injunctive relief/supervisory control of 1st Dist. judges as to ex parte dissemination [Read more…]
Seizure/excessive force arrest, taser shooter
SEIZURE/EXCESSIVE FORCE ARREST: Deputy had reasonable suspicion for investigatory stop of man 200 from single-vehicle [Read more…]
$606,001 verdict, mountain top ski land dispute
VERDICT: $600,000, abuse of process/deceit/unclean hands, $1 punitives, prescriptive easement, misrepresentation in mountain top ski land exchange… [Read more…]