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Where a defendant challenged the sentence imposed in a receipt of child-pornography case, the sentence was not an abuse of discretion, and there were no non-frivolous issues for appeal, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. U.S. v. Anderson ...

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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. ...

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  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 ...

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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 ...

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  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 ...

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  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 ...

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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 ...

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  Where a defendant in a statutory sodomy and child-molestation case argued that the trial court erred in allowing the state to examine a forensic interview about the victim’s “tentative disclosure,” the testimony was general, so the admission was not ...

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Where a defendant who challenged the revocation of his supervised release argued that he was deprived of the right to confrontation by the admission of videos and transcripts of police interrogations in his revocation hearing, the witnesses did not appear ...

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  Where  a defendant in a first-degree murder case argued that the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial after an emotional outburst in the courtroom by the victim’s daughter, the defendant failed to show why denying a ...

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