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Where homeowners challenged the dismissal of their property damage claims, which arose from an electric cooperative’s use of a transmission line easement across their property, the grant of summary judgment to the cooperative is affirmed because the claims for trespass ...

Tagged with: Continuing-Wrong Exception Easement Agreement Real Property Statute Of Limitations

(1)Where a city paid trash-rebate payments to the owners and managers of multi-unit buildings and trailer parks for more than 30 years, and these plaintiffs challenged the elimination of the rebate program from the city’s budget, the plaintiffs had standing ...

Tagged with: breach of contract Municipal Trash Rebate Program

Where a defendant challenged the denial of an abandonment inquiry after his appointed counsel filed a statement in lieu of an amended motion, the filing of a timely statement in lieu of an amended motion does not necessitate an abandonment ...

Tagged with: Abandonment Inquiry Criminal Law Post-Conviction Relief Statement In Lieu Of Motion

Where appellants sued the state challenging the enforcement of the personal-identification requirements of a voter-identification law, judgment as a matter of law for the state is reversed and remanded because the appellants’ petition sufficiently pleaded the insufficiency of the state’s ...

Tagged with: Elections Enforcement Insufficient Appropriation Voter Identification

Where a defendant in a statutory-rape and sodomy case challenged the denial of his post-conviction motion for DNA testing, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant did not plead that the technology for the testing was not reasonably available at ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law DNA testing Post-Conviction Relief

Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case challenged the trial court’s refusal to allow evidence that another person had confessed to the double murder, the defendant failed to establish that the hearsay statements were exonerating, and the statements also ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law hearsay Jury Instruction Outside Confession

Where appellants, who were family members of decedent, brought a will contest challenging the rejection by the probate division of one of the four purported wills of decedent, the trial court properly granted summary judgment in favor of the decedent’s ...

Tagged with: Collateral Attack probate Res Judicata Will Contest

Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case argued that his counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the issue of juror misconduct in the motion for new trial, the judgment is affirmed because juror testimony about alleged bullying that ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law effectiveness of counsel Juror Misconduct Post-Conviction Relief

Where the attorney general filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus, the judgment is affirmed because the habeas court had the authority to review the defendant’s claim pertaining to ...

Tagged with: Authority Criminal Law Habeas Relief

Where the state challenged a trial court’s issuance of a judgment for expungement, the judgment is affirmed because the court did not err in excluding records from the Fine Collection Center because the records were not from court proceedings, and ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Exclusion Of Exhibit Expungement

Where buyers of residential property sought a reduction in the appraised value of their property after researching the property’s assessment and sales history, the buyers did not have standing to challenge a 2008 assessment because they did not own the ...

Tagged with: Administrative assessment Standing Taxation