INITIATIVE: BI 2 to revised property taxation properly rejected for violation of separate-vote requirement… Opinion & Order. [Read more…]
Child abuse reporting, church exception, no $35 million
CHILD ABUSE REPORTING: Jehovah’s Witnesses not mandatory reporters under church confidentiality exception, not negligent for handling abuse claims internally… $35 million verdict reversed, remanded for summary judgment for church… Manley reversed. [Read more…]
Contract/fraud, fact issues preclude summary judgment
CONTRACT/FRAUD: Fact issues preclude (sua sponte) summary judgment on wind energy contract/fraud claims… Haddon reversed (memorandum). [Read more…]
$34,960,000 verdict, church failure to report sex abuse
VERDICT: $34,960,000 net for one Plaintiff, Defense verdict as to one, church failure to report child sex abuse. [Read more…]
Child sex abuse, church’s failure to report
CHILD SEX ABUSE: Supervisory control over Manley denied as to partial summary judgments against church in suit for failure to report child sex abuse. [Read more…]
Initiative, I-185 tobacco tax ballot statement
INITIATIVE: I-185 tobacco tax ballot statement legally sufficient. . . opinion & order. [Read more…]
Constitutional initiative, CI-116, separate votes
CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE: CI-116 (Marsy’s Law) violative of Constitution’s separate vote requirement, void in entirety… original proceeding. [Read more…]
Fair representation, union attorney gross negligence
FAIR REPRESENTATION: Fired policeman improperly awarded $47,550 attorney fees as element of compensatory damages on DFR claim stemming from union attorney’s extraordinary gross neglect in handling grievance… $50,000 punitives improperly awarded without compensatory damages predicate… Ulbricht reversed. [Read more…]
Initiative, I-181 original jurisdiction challenge
INITIATIVE: Original jurisdiction of pre-election challenge to I-181 declined… order. [Read more…]
Attorney fees, corporate election expenditures
ATTORNEY FEES: $138,403 fees properly denied prevailing Plaintiffs in challenge of corporate election expenditures ban under both UDJA and private AG… Sherlock affirmed. [Read more…]