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Where an employer sought review of and challenged the enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board that determined that the employer unlawfully suspended an employee in violation of the National Labor Relations Act, the employer’s petition is ...

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Where appellant, who was civilly committed as a sexually violent predator, argued that the trial court abused its discretion during voir dire by prohibiting him from informing the panel about the young ages of the two children involved and from ...

Tagged with: civil commitment SVP voir dire

Where a father challenged a probate court order appointing his child’s grandmother as the guardian for the child, the trial court did not err in finding that there was sufficient evidence to show that he was unwilling, unable or unfit ...

Tagged with: Fitness Guardianship Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where appellant challenged the finding that he was a sexually violent predator, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to enter his proposed jury instruction limiting hearsay because the instruction failed to acknowledge that substantial portions of ...

Tagged with: hearsay Jury Instruction probate SVP Determination

Where a man, who challenged his commitment as a sexually violent predator, argued that he was unconstitutionally committed because he was committed arbitrarily when a guardianship proceeding was pending, the man did not cite any authority to support the claim ...

Tagged with: commitment Guardianship Hearing probate sexually violent predator

Plaintiffs appealed from the district court’s denial of plaintiffs’ request for preliminary injunctive relief and the sua sponte order staying litigation. A rift developed among the settlor’s children; settlors amended her trust documents to remove defendant as trustee. Plaintiff trusts ...

Tagged with: Charitable Trusts Infringement of Intellectual Property Removal of Trustee

Where appellant, who was the sole beneficiary of a trust, brought an action against the trustee for breach of trust and removal after he stopped receiving monthly distributions, the trial court did not err in granting the trustee’s motion for ...

Tagged with: Breach of Trust Enforceability No-Contest Clause probate

  Where a wife challenged the probate division’s denial of her motion to remove the public administrator as the guardian and conservator for her incapacitated husband and to appoint herself and her daughter as successors, there was no statutory basis ...

Tagged with: Attorney's fees Guardianship probate Removal

  Where appellant challenged his removal as a conservator and guardian and the grant of respondent’s petition to be appointed as successor, the judgment is affirmed because the evidence was sufficient to show that the appellant failed to discharge his ...

Tagged with: Appointment of Successor Conservatorship probate Removal

Where appellant challenged a judgment holding that her deceased brother’s widow had standing as a beneficiary under the family trust, the trust did not include language that delayed the vesting of interests, and the trial court properly found that the ...

Tagged with: Beneficiary Interest Family Trust probate Standing

Plaintiff appealed from the grant of adverse judgment in her action against defendants in connection with trust documents executed by plaintiff’s deceased grandfather. Where oral contract asserted by plaintiff concerned division and distribution of plaintiff’s grandfather’s property after his death, ...

Tagged with: Oral Contract probate Statute Of Frauds Trusts