The Massachusetts Appeals Court held that serving an amended complaint does not restart Rule 4(j)’s ninety-day deadline for a defendant named in the original pleading, requiring dismissal despite a completed jury trial.
The Alabama Supreme Court held that its earlier lease-option mandate required the buyers to pay the remaining $79,200 purchase price before receiving the property.
The Alabama Supreme Court vacated an order allowing an insurance agent to interplead a $15,114 premium refund and exit litigation that also sought much larger, independent damages.
The Alabama Supreme Court dismissed a Section 1983 unemployment-benefits appeal as moot after the agency resolved the applications and the claimants failed to establish an available remedy for allegedly deficient notices.
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction. It agreed that the instructions and verdict form, read together, did not probably change the verdict under North Carolina’s exacting plain-error standard. On value, the Court rejected a rigid direct-evidence rule: jurors may use common knowledge when property is so ubiquitous that an average juror can determine with high certainty that its value clears the statutory threshold. Evidence that the six-year-ol
The Nevada Supreme Court held that law-of-the-case principles—not jurisdiction—govern a successor judge’s authority to revisit an earlier ruling, and upheld removal of an unlawful plea drop-down.
The First Department vacated a custody order entered on default where a Florida mother cited safety fears, death threats, and inability to travel, and the child had long lived exclusively with her.
The First Department enforced a discrimination order against a New York clothing business that refused an online sale for a same-sex wedding, rejecting jurisdictional and First Amendment defenses.
The First Department reinstated a City Human Rights Law retaliation claim, finding factual questions whether a $1.5 million NDA arbitration was intended to punish a former campaign employee for suing.
The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed an award of primary physical custody to a father, holding that caregiver status and sibling unity did not outweigh supported safety and co-parenting concerns.
The Superior Court ordered new appellate counsel after an Anders filing treated direct appeal like PCRA no-merit review and failed to demonstrate an independent examination of the complete record.
The Superior Court reversed a probation revocation because the record did not establish the conditions imposed at sentencing, leaving supervision agents without a proven foundation for the alleged violations.
The Utah Court of Appeals held that an original subdivision survey’s monuments control over conflicting plat measurements and ordered title to a disputed wedge quieted in the Boyers.
The Second Department ordered a new motor-vehicle liability trial, holding that a jury could find fault and that crash-damage photographs were probative of what drivers should have seen.
The Superior Court vacated a post-divorce contempt order because the trial court did not determine the contemnor’s present ability to pay and omitted a purge condition.
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that witness testimony supplied an adequate chain of custody and that laboratory evidence identifying marijuana with more than 1% delta-9 THC supported the conviction.