Background: The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed an injunction that prevents Ryan Clement from acting or presenting himself as a manager of Cowboy Racing, LLC, now known as CR-GTD, while litigation over the company continues. The decision gives Wyoming courts and business litigators useful guidance on how far a judge may go when interpreting an operating agreement…
Held: Justice Fenn, writing for a unanimous court, agreed that the district court used language that was too final. Wyoming Rule of Civil Procedure 65(a)(2) allows a court to consolidate a preliminary-injunction hearing with a trial on the merits, but the parties must receive notice sufficient to let them fully present their cases. No such notice was given here. Because a…
Background: Israel Grossman was indicted in the Jerusalem District Court on charges arising from three incidents near the Palestinian village of Jalud. The prosecution alleged that masked groups damaged homes, set fire to property, severely assaulted a compound guard, threatened workers with an apparent firearm, and, during the third incident, injured police officers while fleeing on…
Held: Justice Ofer Grosskopf dismissed the appeal in full. The Court held that the prosecution had presented a substantial, mutually reinforcing body of circumstantial evidence capable, if developed at trial, of supporting a conviction. At the detention stage, evidence need only possess the potential to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial. Questions concerning admissibility and weight generally remain for…
Background: DUP, a British Virgin Islands company operating a crypto-native neobank, engaged DUQ as its chief strategy officer under an independent contractor agreement. On 2 May 2025, DUP transferred 20 million of its native tokens and 500,000 USDT to accounts held by DUQ. DUP said the assets were placed in designated subaccounts for market-making and liquidity…
Held: The court dismissed DUQ’s application to set aside the proprietary injunction. Even assuming the arbitration might be seated outside Singapore, granting interim relief was not inappropriate under the International Arbitration Act. The dispute had sufficient links to Singapore because DUQ’s public profile described her work for DUP as hybrid work in Singapore, her frequent visits to Singapore were reimbursed by…
Background: A jury convicted Katie Irene Garding in 2011 of vehicular homicide while under the influence, failure to stop immediately at an accident scene involving an injured person, and driving without a valid license. She received an aggregate 40-year prison sentence. The Montana Supreme Court affirmed her convictions on direct appeal and later affirmed the denial…
Held: The Montana Supreme Court affirmed. It held that reversal of the conditional federal habeas writ undid the basis for the renewed state prosecution and made resumption of Garding’s custody lawful. Once the Ninth Circuit determined that Garding was not entitled to habeas relief or a new trial, no new criminal proceeding remained in which Montana’s judicial-substitution statute could operate.
Background: HRP Complete Solutions LLP, referred to as the Old LLP, beneficially owned three residential properties in Chatham, Kent. In an earlier liability judgment, the High Court held that a 2015 declaration of trust purporting to transfer the beneficial ownership to HRP Complete Solutions (Kent) LLP was invalid. The court declared that Andrew Phillips and Bond…
Held: Master Teverson held that the original order required a common-form account of income actually received, not an account on the basis of wilful default. Although the defendants’ noncompliance was serious and unexplained, the court granted limited relief from sanctions so it could consider previously disclosed letting-agent and bank records. Those records were not treated as a substitute for a verified…
Background: Toi Foundation, a Taranaki charitable community trust and indirect owner of all TSB Bank shares, entered a conditional agreement in June 2026 to sell its TSB holding to Heartland Group Holdings. The transaction required, among other conditions, approval by at least 75 per cent of Toi’s trustees. The trustees were due to vote on 26…
Held: Isac J dismissed both applications. TCAS lacked standing to seek review under ss 126–127 of the Trusts Act 2019 because Toi Foundation is a charitable trust and TCAS was not a “beneficiary” under the Act. Charitable trusts are enforced in the public interest by the Attorney-General, not by persons who may benefit from the charity’s purposes. The Court also declined…
Background: The High Court considered three inquiries under Article 40.4.2° of the Constitution arising from contested District Court bail hearings. The cases arose amid a dispute over criminal legal-aid remuneration that had left many accused persons appearing at bail hearings without solicitors.
Held: The court refused relief to Nevin and Kelly. Although their hearings may have involved deficiencies or errors, each man had received a meaningful opportunity to understand, test and answer the prosecution’s bail objections. Their proceedings retained the essential character of contested bail hearings, so any errors were within the District Court’s jurisdiction and their detention remained lawful.
Background: Hologic and its affiliates filed New Hampshire business-profits-tax returns as a water’s-edge combined group. In an amended fiscal-year 2017 return, the group sought a refund by carrying back a capital loss incurred by parent Hologic in fiscal year 2020, largely from the sale of Cynosure, to offset a 2017 capital gain earned by affiliate Gen-Probe…
Held: The New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed. Under RSA chapter 77-A’s water’s-edge method, each member of a combined group must first determine its own net income under Internal Revenue Code concepts, including the treatment of capital gains and losses, before those net incomes are added to produce the group’s combined net income. Therefore, a member’s capital loss carryback may offset only…
Background: After his former partner called 9-1-1 to report that Hart threatened to kill her and banged on her hotel-room door, police found Hart nearby. During the encounter, Hart sent the victim Facebook messages urging her to tell police that she had overreacted. After Hart was arrested and processed at the county jail, officials found drugs,…
Held: The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed. It held that the superseding indictment did not create a reasonable likelihood of prosecutorial vindictiveness. The change was made before trial, and Hart identified only routine pretrial motions and timing—not facts suggesting retaliation for exercising a legal right. The court also noted that the State had objective reasons for its charging decisions: venue problems…
Background: Sibley Investments held 40% of Adelaide Scaffold Solutions Pty Ltd (ASS), while Oldfields Advance Scaffold held the remaining 60%. Their 2005 shareholders agreement required shareholder approval for major matters, including loans exceeding $50,000, and restricted encumbrances over ASS shares. A default entitled the non-defaulting shareholder to acquire the defaulting shareholder’s shares at 90% of fair…
Held: McGrath J held that both default notices validly engaged the share-sale process. The loan-default notice was sufficient, and the agreement did not require Sibley to serve a further default notice after Oldfields Advance failed to remedy the loan breach within 10 days.
Background: Sheadrick Richards sued Shipwright SPAC I, LLC and related entities and individuals, asserting breach-of-fiduciary-duty and unjust-enrichment claims arising from Collective Growth Corp.’s March 11, 2021 proxy statement. Richards alleged that the proxy was misleading under a net-cash-per-share theory.
Held: The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal based on the Court of Chancery’s reasoning and the Supreme Court’s June 15, 2026 order in Reilly v. Horn. The court held that Richards’s fiduciary-duty and unjust-enrichment claims accrued when the allegedly misleading proxy statement was distributed on March 11, 2021, making his March 28, 2024 complaint untimely.
Background: Albert Fontanez pleaded guilty to nine charges resolving five Cuyahoga County criminal cases arising from incidents between June 2021 and July 2022. The state reduced or dismissed charges under the plea agreement. The trial court reviewed the amended charges, their elements, and potential penalties, but did not expressly tell Fontanez that a guilty plea is…
Held: The Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed. It held that a trial court does not completely fail to comply with Crim.R. 11(C)(2) merely by failing to expressly state that a guilty plea is a complete admission of guilt, when the court otherwise complies with the rule, the admission is apparent from the plea-colloquy context, and the defendant does not assert actual…