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  Where appellant challenged a judgment adverse to him imposing a constructive trust on insurance proceeds, the proceeds were paid after the destruction of a home on the parties’ property, and unchallenged findings constituted substantial evidence to support the award. ...

Tagged with: Insurance Proceeds Real Property

  Where a former employee sued her employer for gender discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation, and the employer sought to compel arbitration, the trial court properly denied the motion to compel arbitration because the employer had the power to unilaterally ...

Tagged with: Arbitration MHRA Mutual Consideration

Where a city employer challenged a judgment against it in a hostile environment case, the trial court did not err in admitting prior acts as background evidence and as evidence of a continuing violation, and the evidence of improper conduct ...

Tagged with: Employment Law hostile environment Me-Too Testimony

  Where substantial evidence supported the trial court’s conclusion that a father neglected his children and committed severe emotional abuse by killing their mother while they were in the home, the court did not abuse its discretion in terminating the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Parental Rights Termination

  Where a defendant convicted of charges that included first-degree rape and sodomy argued that the trial court erred in admitting evidence from his cell phone, the warrant to search the phone was supported by probable cause, was sufficiently particular ...

Tagged with: Cell Phone Search Criminal Law Joinder Self Incrimination

Where appellants as trustees of a revocable trust challenged the adverse grant of partial summary judgment, the trial court did not err in denying the appellants’ motion to transfer venue because forum-selection clauses designated the venue for litigation in connection ...

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  Where appellant challenged the decision to suspend his nursing license, the appellant’s guilty plea to battery was based on his improper sexual advance and physical contact toward a nursing aide and involved a crime of moral turpitude, so the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law licensing Nurse Discipline

  Where a city ordered a property owner to demolish dilapidated structures on the property eight years after condemning the property and declaring it a nuisance, and the city also sued the previous property owner for public nuisance and negligence, ...

Tagged with: Dangerous Condition of Property Negligence Public Nuisance Statute Of Limitations

  Where a defendant was issued a writ of habeas corpus based on his argument that he was being illegally detained because he was entitled to receive earned compliance credits that caused his probation to expire, which ended the court’s ...

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  Where a driver challenged his conviction for DWI, arguing that the state’s evidence was insufficient to established that he was intoxicated while driving even though he conceded to officers that he was drunk at the time he was arrested, ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law DWI Operation of Vehicle Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where landowners, who prevailed in a wrongful-detainer action, challenged the trial court’s judgment waiving other claims related to the defendants’ occupation of the premises, the judgment was final for purposes of appeal, and the judgment is affirmed because the landowners ...

Tagged with: Disposal Expense Real Property Unlawful Detainer