The Nevada Supreme Court decides if it will let the City Of Oakland collect a California judgment against a Nevada Corporation in Nevada. This is a big issue for Nevada, which depends on other states being willing to enforce Nevada gambling debts. City of Oakland v. Desert Outdoor Advertising Podcast
Archive of entries posted on October 2011
Case of the Week – 10/23/11 – State of Ohio v. Williams
George Williams plead guilty in 2007 to statutory rape. When he was sentenced in 2008, he was sentenced under the new 2008 sex offender registration law and not the law in effect in 2007. The Ohio Supreme Court decides if the 2008 law was an unconstitutional retroactive law as applied to Mr.Williams. Ohio v. Williams [...]
Case of the Week – 10/16/11 – Omaha Healthcare Center LLC v. Johnson
Classie Mae Reed was a patient in the Omaha Healthcare Nursing Home. She was bitten by a brown recluse spider and died. The Texas Supreme Court decides if her case against the Nursing Home should be dismissed because she failed to file a report required in medical malpractice cases. Omaha Healthcare Center LLC v. Johnson [...]
Case of the Week – 10/9/11 – Sanders v. Mississippi
The jury found that K. D. Sanders was insane when he murdered his grandfather but sane, and guilty, when he killed his grandmother seconds later. The jury then found that he was in insane again at the time of his trial. The Mississippi Supreme Court decides if the verdict should be set aside as inconsistent [...]
Case of the Week – 10/2/11 – Shiamili v. The Real Estate Group of New York, Inc.
Chris Shiamili, a New York real estate agent, is attacked by an anonymous post on a website. The comment accuses him of being a racist, an anti-semite and a wife beater. The website is sponsored by one of his competitors, who featured the comment on their website. The Court of Appeals of New York decides [...]