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Where a highway worker was injured when his knee “popped” as he walked briskly to his truck on a job site, the injury did not arise out of and in the course of the worker’s employment because the evidence did ...

Tagged with: Workers' compensation Workers' Compensation Law

Where a claimant of unemployment benefits failed to file his decision within 20 days of the date the decision became final, the notice was untimely and the appeal must be dismissed as moot. Appeal is dismissed. Jones v. Shillington Box ...

Tagged with: Notice Of Appeal timeliness Unemployment Compensation

Where the holder of a quitclaim deed appealed the entry of summary judgment quieting title in defendant, the summary judgment record did not show whether the transaction was a third offering tax sale requiring specific notice language, so the case ...

Tagged with: Notice Quiet Title Action Real Property Real Property Law tax sale

(1)Where the trial court considered the terms printed on a casino reward card in a case alleging the casino breached a contract to cardholders when it changed a reward program, the terms printed on the card were not part of ...

Tagged with: Ameristar contracts MMPA

Where an order of protection expired during pendency of the appeal, the appeal is moot and no issue of adequate public interest exists to justify review. Appeal is dismissed. M.W. v. Mabry (MLW No. 58677/Case No. ED90771 – 4 pages) ...

Tagged with: civil practice mootness Order Of Protection

Where an appellant filed an untimely notice of appeal, the appeal must be dismissed despite appellant’s dispute with the date of the denial of his motion to reconsider. Appeal is dismissed. Peet v. Carter, et al. (MLW No. 58673/Case No. ...

Tagged with: Appellate Practice Employer - Employee Notice Of Appeal timeliness

Where an unemployment compensation claimant was denied benefits because the commission found that she failed, without good cause, to accept an offer of suitable work from a former employer, the employer failed to meet its burden of proving an actual ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Good Cause Unemployment Compensation

Where homeowners sought a prescriptive easement or an easement by necessity in a dispute with their neighbors over access to a road, testimony showed that use of the road by the homeowners had been permissive, so the plaintiffs failed to ...

Tagged with: Adverse Possession Prescriptive Easement Real Property Real Property Law

Where a homeowners association filed a petition alleging homeowners violated a subdivision indenture by erecting a shed without seeking approval, the trial court erred in dismissing the petition based on a finding that the association lacked standing because the legal ...

Tagged with: Real Property Real Property Law Standing

Where the state showed that a defendant in an involuntary manslaughter case drove on the wrong side of the road and was intoxicated, the evidence was sufficient to show that the defendant was criminally negligent to support the conviction, and ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law evidence Involuntary Manslaughter

Where a defendant claiming error in his sentencing brought a direct appeal from a guilty plea, the claim was outside of the appellate court’s limited review of guilty pleas and his appropriate remedy was to file a Rule 24.035 motion. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Guilty Plea sentencing