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The state as intervenor appealed from the denial of its petition to enforce a lien, for deposit into the Tort Victims’ Compensation Fund, that the state purported to have on punitive damages awarded to plaintiff in her wrongful-termination case against ...

Tagged with: Lien on Punitive Damages Retaliation and Constructive Discharge

Where a claimant challenged the denial of his claim for permanent total disability, sufficient competent evidence supported the finding that the work-related accident was not the prevailing factor in causing the claimant’s tinnitus, so the judgment denying the claim is ...

Tagged with: Causation SIF Liability Tinnitus

Where a defendant challenged his conviction in a felony stealing case, the trial court erred in entering a judgment of conviction on the felony stealing count because the evidence at trial was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that ...

Tagged with: Felony Stealing Lesser-Included Offense

Where a defendant challenged his convictions including assault, robbery and attempted escape from custody, the trial court did not lack jurisdiction in the case and the indictment was not invalid, and the judgment is affirmed in part because sufficient evidence ...

Tagged with: Custody Escape Attempt Sufficiency Of Evidence

  Where a defendant challenged his convictions in a domestic-violence case, the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the opinion testimony of an investigating officer who commented on the defendant’s guilt and vouched for the victim’s testimony and the ...

Tagged with: domestic assault Opinion Testimony

Where a landlord terminated a tenant’s lease after the tenant received a municipal citation for violating an ordinance prohibiting subletting through the Airbnb short-term rental service, the landlord was not entitled to the proceeds of the rental activity under the ...

Tagged with: Airbnb Rental Damages Landlord-Tenant Dispute

Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a drug-conspiracy case, the district court did not err in denying the request for safety-valve relief because he conveyed only the basic facts of the crime and failed to provide a complete and ...

Tagged with: Offense Level safety valve relief sentencing

Where a co-trustee challenged a probate court judgment allowing income distribution to the grantor’s grandson, the court improperly interpreted the trust as it related to the trustee’s ability to request the grandson’s financial information before authorizing the distribution, but the ...

Tagged with: Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Income Distributions Irrevocable Trust

Where appellant and respondent both claimed injuries as the result of an auto accident between the appellant’s personal vehicle and a garbage truck driven by respondent, the trial court erred in finding that the appellant could not prove proximate causation ...

Tagged with: auto accident comparative fault Proximate Causation

Where a plaintiff brought a declaratory judgment action to determine the limited liability company member status of defendant in a dispute arising from the defendant’s alleged misuse of LLC funds, the filing of a petition to determine LLC status did ...

Tagged with: Involuntary Withdrawal Limited Liability Company Member Status

Where the brief of pro se appellants did not contain a fair and concise statement of facts, did not set forth a standard of review under each claim of error and the points relied on were confusing and failed to ...

Tagged with: Inadequate Brief Pro Se Appellants