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Where an emergency air-transport company brought claims against an insurer for allegedly inadequate reimbursements for air-ambulance services provided to the insurer’s plan members, the plaintiff did not have the right to seek equitable relief under ERISA, and the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Emergency Air Transport Failure To State Claim

Where plaintiffs in a civil case involving a euthanized dog challenged the denial of their motion for attorneys’ fees and sanctions, the district court did not abuse its discretion, and the court also did not err in denying their motions ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees recusal Sanctions

Where an appellant challenged the denial of his discovery requests in an action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the Administrative Procedures Act, the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not ...

Tagged with: Discovery Requests FTCA

Where appellant challenged the denial of her petition for a full order of protection against respondent, the judgment is reversed as against the weight of the evidence because the evidence showed that the respondent stalked the appellant and had choked ...

Tagged with: Denial Of Petition Protective Order Stalking

Where a disabled man and a nonprofit organization that represented disabled individuals brought an action against a restaurant alleging ADA violations, the dismissal of the second suit was due to the plaintiffs’ decision to assert associational standing as a co-plaintiff ...

Tagged with: ADA Action Associational Standing Res Judicata

  Where an oil-field construction company argued that it was entitled to attorney’s fees in a dispute with a former manager, the denial of the motion is affirmed because North Dakota law did not permit the recovery of such fees ...

Tagged with: Attorney’s Fees North Dakota Law Quiet Title Action

Where appellant and his related corporate entities brought claims of breach of contract and tort against a lender in a dispute arising from the execution of a promissory note, the lender could not invoke the protections of the Missouri Commercial ...

Where a university sought a writ mandating venue from St. Louis County to Boone County, the case involved the administration of trust funds that could be registered in Boone County, so that was the proper venue, and the preliminary writ ...

Tagged with: Trust Fund Administration Venue Transfer

  Where an estate administrator challenged a district court order that modified the attorney’s fees in an underlying settlement agreement, any authority for judicial approval of FLSA settlements does not extend to the review of settled attorneys’ fees, so the ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Authority Modification

Where appellants challenged the dismissal of their complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, federal district courts are precluded from exercising subject matter jurisdiction in actions where the losing party in state court complains of injury caused by a state ...

Tagged with: Dismissal Subject Matter Jurisdiction

Where class representatives, who claimed an employer failed to pay overtime compensation, challenged the trial court’s denial of their amended motion for class certification, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the evidence was sufficient to fulfill the numerosity requirement ...

Tagged with: class action Denial of Certification Numerosity Requirement