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Where a driver challenged the suspension of her driving privileges, arguing that the trial court erred in concluding during de novo proceedings that it did not have the authority to hear and determine due process violations that allegedly took place ...

Tagged with: Administrative Hearing Authority due process

Where the Department of Corrections challenged a judgment granting partial summary judgment to class plaintiffs, who were corrections officers, in a dispute regarding the officers’ breach-of-contract claims arising from the compensability of their pre- and post-shift tasks, the disputed tasks ...

Tagged with: breach of contract Labor Agreement

Where appellant challenged the entry of judgment in favor of the respondent on a claim for action on account, the judgment described several bases for the judgment including that the appellant failed to establish the total value of services rendered ...

Tagged with: Action On Account Payment Defense

  Where appellants challenged the entry of an amended judgment that found the parties had reached a binding settlement agreement and entering judgment pursuant to the terms, the trial court did not err despite the fact that there was no ...

Tagged with: Authority Settlement Agreement

Where appellant sought leave to file a supersedeas bond after a trial court quieted title to a farm to respondents, and the respondents sought a judgment against the bond for attorneys’ fees incurred during appeal and for lost rental income, ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Lost Rental Income Supersedeas Bond

Where a trial court determined that a buyer in a sale of real property was entitled to specific  performance and the buyer claimed on appeal that he was entitled to damages due to the increase in interest rates available to ...

Tagged with: Damages Interest-Rate Increase Specific Performance

Where the order in a case, which involved claims of wrongful foreclosure and unlawful detainer, did not dispose of a distinct judicial unit, the order was neither final nor appealable, so the appeal is dismissed. Appeal is dismissed. McClain v. ...

Tagged with: Finality Of Judgment foreclosure

Where a workers’ compensation claimant challenged the dismissal of his application to review his injury settlement with his employer and its insurer, arguing that the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission had the authority to review the settlement based on the ...

Tagged with: Authority to Review Settlement Fraud

Where a wholesale supply company appealed from a judgment in its favor that awarded compensation and statutory interest but denied an alternative claim of unjust enrichment, substantial evidence supported the conclusion that the individual defendants were personally liable for the ...

Tagged with: Payment on Account Personal Liability unjust enrichment

Where the state highway patrol challenged the trial court’s grant of a registered sex offender’s petition to have his name removed from the sex-offender registry, the offense was the lowest classification offense despite a recent renaming of the tiers of ...

Tagged with: Removal from Registry Sex Offender Registration

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for receiving stolen property, evidence that the defendant purchased items on the victim’s charge account that were not clearly authorized by the parties’ contract, even after the victim stated this, and after the defendant ...

Tagged with: Receiving Stolen Property restitution Sufficiency Of Evidence