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  Where a father challenged the termination of his parental rights, the father’s six points on appeal preserved nothing for review, so the appeal must be dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. In the Interest of: R.J.M. v. Department of Social Services ...

Tagged with: Defective Brief Domestic Relations Family Law Family Law Parental Rights Termination

  Where a defendant challenged his conviction for sodomy of a child, the claims in the motion did not preserve the defendant’s claim that propensity evidence was unfairly prejudicial, and the judgment is affirmed because the defendant did not show ...

Tagged with: Child Sexual Abuse Criminal Law Propensity Evidence

Defendant was convicted as a prior and persistent offender for making a terrorist threat and victim-tampering after he had threatened hospital staff for refusing to write a prescription for him and threatened the hospital security staffer who testified against him. ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Implied Consent Warnings Sufficiency Of Evidence Victim-Tampering

  Defendant was convicted of unlawful use of a weapon and third-degree domestic assault after he assaulted his paramour at her home during a period of several days. On appeal, defendant argued that counsel was ineffective for advising him not ...

Tagged with: Advising Not to Testify in Own Defense Criminal Law domestic assault ineffective assistance of counsel

Plaintiff appealed from defendant’s orders, which ordered relocation proceeds from the sale of one of plaintiff’s facilities be used to reduce rates after plaintiff moved to a more expensive facility, denied plaintiff half of its rate-case operating expenses, and eliminated ...

Tagged with: Denial of Expenses and Assets public utilities Use of Relocation Proceeds

  Where employer challenged the award of past and future medical expenses and permanent total disability benefits to a claimant, the judgment is affirmed in part because the award of future medical expenses was supported by substantial and competent evidence, ...

Tagged with: Employment Law Future Medical Expenses Medical Expense Liability PTD

  Where a veterinary student, who was injured while vaccinating cattle, sued her veterinarian supervisor for negligent supervision, the judgment for the plaintiff is affirmed because the defendant failed to show that expert testimony was necessary to establish the standard ...

Tagged with: expert testimony negligent supervision personal injury Personal Injury & Torts Law

  Where a defendant in a statutory sodomy and child-molestation case argued that the trial court erred in allowing the state to examine a forensic interview about the victim’s “tentative disclosure,” the testimony was general, so the admission was not ...

Tagged with: Child Victim Criminal Law Forensic Interview hearsay

  Where  a defendant in a first-degree murder case argued that the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial after an emotional outburst in the courtroom by the victim’s daughter, the defendant failed to show why denying a ...

Tagged with: Courtroom Outburst Criminal Law Out-Of-Court Statements Rebuttal

  Where  a defendant in a first-degree murder case argued that the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial after an emotional outburst in the courtroom by the victim’s daughter, the defendant failed to show why denying a ...

Tagged with: Courtroom Outburst Criminal Law Out-Of-Court Statements Rebuttal

  Where a mother challenged the manner in which her visitation schedule was determined, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the trial court’s order that the parties’ therapists would decide when conditions had changed enough to alter the parenting ...

Tagged with: Child Visitation Determination of Schedule Domestic Relations Family Law Family Law Judicial Authority