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Where a claimant challenged findings that he was not permanently and totally disabled and that the Second Injury Fund was thus not liable, synergy is not required for a finding of permanent total disability, so the claimant’s point on appeal ...

Tagged with: Kidney Loss PTD SIF Liability

Plaintiffs filed suit against defendant, alleging he and others were responsible for the murder of plaintiffs’ decedent. Plaintiffs asserted a claim for wrongful death and fraudulent transfer, alleging defendant engaged in a series of financial transactions to hinder his creditors. ...

Tagged with: Fraudulent Transfer to Hinder Creditors wrongful death

Where appellants brought wrongful-death and personal-injury claims against a city after a car accident, arguing that the city waived its sovereign immunity based on the unmarked edge of the roadway with a 9-inch drop, which they alleged was a dangerous ...

Tagged with: Dangerous Condition of Public Property Intervening Cause Sovereign Immunity

Plaintiffs appealed from the decision of the Clean Water Commission to deny their permit application for a concentrated animal-feeding operation. Plaintiffs argued that the entities challenging their applications lacked standing, that the CWC’s decision was untimely and was issued without ...

Tagged with: Concentrated Animal-Feeding Operation Permit Application

Plaintiff appealed from the entry of judgment in favor of defendant in plaintiff’s religious-discrimination and retaliation complaint. Plaintiff challenged the trial court’s evidentiary rulings, including barring plaintiff, during closing argument, from commenting on the absence of witnesses, and also challenged ...

Tagged with: Evidentiary Rulings religious discrimination

Mother appealed from the judgment establishing paternity and determining child custody, child support and parenting time. Mother argued that the trial court’s adoption of father’s parenting plan was against the weight of the evidence, exceeded the scope of the matter ...

Tagged with: Child Custody paternity

Where a defendant challenged the dismissal of her pro se motion for post-conviction relief as untimely, the defendant was denied a critical piece of evidence proving the date on which her motion was mailed because the clerk failed to fulfill ...

Tagged with: Active Interference Exception Mailbox Rule Post-Conviction Relief

Where appellant challenged the dismissal of his petition for expungement of his 1970 conviction for felony possession of a stimulant drug, the trial court erred by finding that the appellant was ineligible for expungement based on a subsequent felony conviction ...

Tagged with: eligibility Expungement Time-Period Requirements

Defendant was convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography arising from a recorded video on his cell phone. On appeal, defendant argued that his conviction violated double jeopardy because possession of child pornography was a ...

Tagged with: Child Pornography Double Jeopardy

Defendant appealed from his conviction for first-degree assault and armed criminal action, arguing that the trial court erred in denying his motion for mistrial because the state inadvertently had revealed to the jury, in response to a venireperson’s statement, that ...

Tagged with: Assault Evidence of Prior Criminal Convictions

Where appellant challenged a trial court order dismissing respondent as a party in a dispute involving corporate assets and liability, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the state’s minimum-wage law required the application of the economic realities test and the ...

Tagged with: Dismissal of Party Economic-Realities Test FLSA