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Where an employer challenged an award of permanent partial disability to a worker who suffered from work-related tinnitus, the commission did not err in finding that an audiologist with a doctorate in hearing science was qualified to testify as an ...

Tagged with: Employment Law expert testimony Permanent Partial Disability Tinnitus Workers' compensation

Where a mother challenged a judgment finding her in contempt of court and abating child support that she had been awarded, arguing that an order for the family to participate in counseling was too indefinite to support a contempt finding, ...

Tagged with: Contempt of Court Domestic Relations Family Counseling Family Law Visitation

Where a mother involved in a dissolution challenged the orders for child support and the distribution of marital property, the trial court erred in reducing the child-support obligation because the child-support start date predated the filing of her petition and ...

Tagged with: Child Support Distribution Domestic Relations Family Law Marital Property

Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion for a speedy trial filed decades after trial and appellate and post-conviction proceedings, the appeal must be dismissed because it lacked statutory authority, and there was no independent basis for the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law speedy trial Statutory Authority

Where a defendant, who was found guilty of counts including third-degree kidnapping and domestic assault, challenged the admission of evidence of three 911 calls, the calls by an unknown man and woman were properly admitted under the present-sense-impression exception to ...

Tagged with: 911 Call Evidence Criminal Law domestic assault hearsay

Where appellants in a dispute arising from the ownership of real property challenged a default judgment entered against them, arguing that they were entitled to notice of the respondents’ motion for default judgment, the appellants were not entitled to such ...

Tagged with: civil practice Default Judgment Notice Quitclaim Deed

Where an appellant’s brief failed to present the relevant uncontroverted material facts in the statement of facts, the brief was inadequate, and the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. Fleddermann v. Casino One Corporation (MLW No.73191/Case No. ED106905 – ...

Tagged with: Appellate Law Inadequate Brief Statement Of Facts

Where a mother and child, who were allegedly injured during delivery, each brought claims against a doctor that were resolved through a confidential settlement agreement, and the doctor’s insurer argued that the plaintiffs’ claims were subject to a single liability ...

Tagged with: Insurance Law Liability-Limit Clause Medical-Malpractice Policy ‘Medical Occurrence’

Where a husband involved in a dissolution defaulted on his obligation under a separation agreement to sell and equally divide the proceeds of the parties’ properties, the trial court erred by awarding damages to the wife instead of ordering the ...

Tagged with: Defaulted Obligation Domestic Relations Family Law Motion To Enforce Separation Agreement

Where a defendant in a felony stealing case argued that under State v. Bazell he could be convicted of only misdemeanor stealing, Bazell was decided while the defendant was serving probation on a suspended sentence after a guilty plea, so ...

Tagged with: Bazell Criminal Law Felony Stealing Post-Conviction Proceeding

Where a defendant found guilty of charges including first-degree murder claimed that the trial court should have disqualified his trial counsel due to an apparent conflict of interest, the facts of the alleged potential conflict were not sufficient to invoke ...

Tagged with: conflict of interest Criminal Law Direct Appeal