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Where a defendant challenged the denial of postconviction relief, arguing that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request that a venireperson be struck for cause after the venireperson said the defense would need to present evidence that the ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Postconviction Relief

Where a defendant argued that the trial court erred in failing to grant him allocution before pronouncing sentence, allocution is the questioning of the defendant about any legal cause as to why judgment should not be pronounced, and neither exception ...

Tagged with: Allocution effectiveness of counsel

Where an employer and its insurer challenged the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to award workers’ compensation benefits to a truck driver who suffered from acute stress disorder and depression following an on-the-job accident, the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Compensation to Spouse Permanent Total Disability Award Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Where a defendant, who sought parole eligibility after serving 25 years of his sentence of life without parole for crimes committed as a juvenile, the trial court did not err in granting declaratory judgment for the department of corrections because ...

Tagged with: Juvenile Offender Parole Eligibility sentencing

Where a father argued that the trial court did not have authority to enter a full order of protection against him after the court found that the father had abused or neglected the child by placing him in physical fear ...

Tagged with: Abuse by Grandmother domestic violence Order Of Protection

Where an employee terminated by a government agency challenged the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission that found that the human resources director had the authority to fire him, the HR director did not have the authority to terminate the ...

Tagged with: Authority Termination Unauthorized Law

Where a defendant in a drunk-driving case challenged the admission of her blood-test results after she tried to specify where and by whom her blood was tested, the defendant did not have the right to control the manner in which ...

Tagged with: Blood Test Consent DWI

Where a realty company claimed that its broker was entitled to a share of a commission on a real property sale, the broker had introduced the buyer to the seller, and more than a year later the buyer had a ...

Tagged with: Commercial Property Sale Quantum Meruit Real Estate Commission

Plaintiffs appealed the judgment imposing a sanction or fee to be paid to defendant’s counsel. On appeal, plaintiffs argued that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to order sanctions. Where neither defendant’s motion for sanctions nor any other matters in the ...

Tagged with: Sanction Award Voluntary Dismissal of Case

Plaintiff suffered serious injuries when he was struck by a rental truck driven by Patricia Hollandsworth and rented by Daniel Clymens. Hollandsworth was moving her belonging from Clymens’ house; Clymens had an auto policy issued by defendant. Hollandsworth rejected defendant’s ...

Tagged with: Insurer’s Motion to Intervene motor vehicle accident

Defendant fired Ryan Saunders for a workplace incident. Plaintiff filed a grievance on Saunders’ behalf. The parties proceeded to arbitration pursuant to their collective bargaining agreement, resulting in an award reinstating Saunders and ordering him to an employee-assistance program. Relying ...

Tagged with: CBA Grievance Procedure Wrongful Termination