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Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s order with the help from a social security disability lawyer affirming the denial of Social Security disability insurance benefits to plaintiff. The most important reason to hire an attorney to help with your disability case ...

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Defendant appealed from the grant of partial summary judgment in favor of plaintiff in his petition for review of the decision to remove plaintiff as chief of police. On appeal, defendants argued that the trial court erred in finding that ...

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Plaintiff appealed from the dismissal of his action raising claims from a prior Minnesota state court judgment. Where district courts lacked authority to review state court judgments, the district court correctly dismissed plaintiff’s complaint for lack of jurisdiction. Judgment is ...

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Plaintiff was general manager for defendants when he learned from the finance director that customer financial information had been stolen from her. When the finance director engaged on a course to recover the information without alerting customers of the breach, ...

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Where appellant, who wished to donate to candidates running for state office in Arkansas, claimed that a blackout period prohibiting donations until two years before election day violated her First Amendment rights, the appellant demonstrated standing to bring the action, ...

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Where a defendant argued that the trial court erred in finding that he committed five separate violations of the terms of supervised release, the evidence supported the findings of violation, and the sentence was not substantively unreasonable. Judgment is affirmed. ...

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Where a defendant challenged his conviction and sentence for charges including assault with a dangerous weapon, the admission of a 911 call did not violate the defendant’s confrontation clause rights because the call was not testimonial in nature, and the ...

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Where a defendant argued that counsel was ineffective for failing to explain that his plea agreement would prevent him from appealing the denial of an offense level reduction for acceptance of responsibility, the challenge to the voluntariness of his pleas ...

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Where a defendant challenged a sentence imposed in a drug case after pleading guilty pursuant to a plea agreement that included an appeal waiver, the appeal waiver is enforced, and the appeal is dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. U.S. v. Lowe ...

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Where appellant filed an action against defendants including a city and a judge alleging counts including unlawful arrest and constitutional violations, the judge was entitled to absolute judicial immunity from the arrest and detention claims based on an invalid warrant, ...

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Where appellant challenged the dismissal of claims that she brought against a city for jailing her without an inquiry into her ability to pay and without appointing counsel, the district court properly dismissed the claims because the appellant did not ...

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