Background: Vasken Ohanian sued bus driver Tamisha Davis and her employer, MV Transportation, after a collision allegedly caused physical injuries and psychological and cognitive harm. Davis retained neuropsychologist Dr. Thomas Kinsora to conduct an independent medical examination under Nevada Rule of Civil Procedure 35. Kinsora concluded that Ohanian’s presentation did not match a true traumatic injury…
Held: The en banc Supreme Court denied the petition. Justice Lee explained that NRS 641.100(2) authorizes the Nevada Board of Psychological Examiners to regulate “the practice of psychology.” It does not authorize the Board to regulate civil discovery or dictate what Nevada courts may order litigants and experts to produce. NAC 641.234(3) may govern a psychologist’s professional conduct, but it cannot…
Background: Retired Judge Hanna Trachtingot worked for 16 years in the legal department of Israel’s National Insurance Institute, where she participated in a state-funded budgetary pension arrangement. She was appointed to the Regional Labor Court in 2004 and served for another 19 years. Throughout her judicial tenure, the Courts Administration expressly classified her as covered by…
Held: Deputy President Noam Sohlberg dismissed the Ministry’s appeal in full. The Court found it unnecessary to decide whether National Insurance Institute employees fall directly within the exception in Section 1A(b) of the Pensions for Officeholders in Government Authorities Law, which preserves budgetary-pension coverage for certain existing public employees appointed to office after May 15, 1999. Even assuming the Ministry’s narrower…
Background: Metropolitan Police Department officers stopped a BMW driven by Elliott Wallace for equipment violations. Antoine Layne was seated in the back. Officers saw suspicious movements inside the car and, after directing its occupants to exit, found a loaded firearm beneath the front passenger seat. They found Wallace carrying cash, thirteen bags containing crack cocaine and…
Held: The D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed all convictions. It held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Brown’s expert testimony. Although boot was a relatively new drug and Brown’s experience with it was limited, he had extensive general narcotics expertise, had encountered boot in about a dozen investigations, and had discussed it with other officers and…
Background: Aaron Kiely was charged with an alleged robbery and appeared unrepresented before the District Court because his usual solicitor was not accepting legal-aid assignments under amended remuneration arrangements. The District Court granted bail despite Kiely’s extensive bench-warrant history, fixing bail at €200 and requiring, among other things, daily reporting and residence at an address approved…
Held: The High Court held that the 10 August release order was conventional bail under the court’s full and original bail jurisdiction, not interim release under Article 40.4.2°. Its duration was tied to the criminal proceedings rather than to the habeas inquiry: Kiely was required to attend future District Court remands until the charges were resolved. Because he was on conventional…
Background: Cavendish IP Solutions Limited, a litigation funder, acquired from the liquidator of One Property Group (UK) Limited the company’s claims against On And On Consultants Limited and Neil Macpherson. It sought recovery of payments made before the company’s November 2015 creditors’ voluntary liquidation, alleging transactions at an undervalue and preferences under the Insolvency Act 1986,…
Held: Fancourt J found that Macpherson was both a de facto and shadow director of One Property Group throughout its existence before liquidation. He controlled its finances, directed its formal director, decided which creditors were paid and participated in all significant business decisions. The company was balance-sheet insolvent throughout the relevant period, and On And On was connected with it because…
Background: In an earlier judgment, the Court found that Yuchen Chen, Jarrah Capital 2005 Loan Pty Ltd and Michael Hai Tao Pan had each engaged in misleading conduct contrary to s 12DA(1) of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth). Jianping Qiu and Jingjing Lin, the plaintiffs, suffered a combined loss of $1 million…
Held: Nixon J held that responsibility could not be apportioned between Jarrah Capital and Pan. Jarrah Capital’s misleading conduct arose from Pan’s acts as its director and chief executive officer, including conduct by an employee acting at his direction. Under the authorities governing a company and its directing mind, Jarrah Capital and Pan were either not concurrent wrongdoers as between themselves…
Background: An investigating judge ordered [C] [X], who was at least 16 years old, to stand trial before a juvenile assize court on charges of aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault and violence, and sexual assault. The judge also ruled that the detention warrant issued on June 26, 2025, would remain effective until the accused appeared before…
Held: The Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal. It held that the Constitutional Council’s June 27, 2025 decision did not permit the accused to challenge a detention order made before Article L. 434-9 was repealed on July 1, 2026. Although the Constitutional Council had declared the provision unconstitutional, it postponed repeal and expressly provided that measures taken before that date could…
Background: James Welsh lived in a Bangor apartment building with a shared hallway. One morning, his across-the-hall neighbor opened her door and saw Welsh standing naked in the hallway with his back toward her. She closed her door and called police. When an officer arrived, Welsh was naked inside his apartment with the door to the…
Held: The Maine Supreme Judicial Court held that a “public place” under the indecent-conduct statute includes publicly or privately owned places regularly accessible to members of the public or a substantial group other than the owner or occupants. A private place is a home or similarly exclusive location to which nonoccupants do not have regular access. Under that interpretation, Welsh’s apartment…
Background: Nur Diyanah pleaded guilty to one charge of providing unlicensed payment services under s 5(1) of the Payment Services Act 2019. After accepting a purported administrative job offered through Facebook, she received funds from unknown sources in her bank accounts, used them to buy Bitcoin through a crypto.com account, and transferred the Bitcoin to wallet…
Held: The High Court allowed the appeal and reduced the imprisonment term to 15 weeks. It held that the District Judge had erred in principle by relying significantly on a sentencing precedent involving a different and graver money-laundering offence under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act. That reliance effectively treated Nur Diyanah as though an…
Background: The appellee leased part of its land to A for building ownership. A constructed a condominium building on the leased land and owned an exclusive-use unit. After A died, A’s four children each inherited a one-quarter interest in that unit. The land lease was subsequently renewed for another 30 years beginning in October 2019.
Held: The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal and held that Article 14 does not create a building purchase claim for a fractional ownership interest in a building situated on leased land. The same rule applies when the transferred interest is a fractional interest in an exclusive-use portion of a condominium building.
Background: Aldin Associates Limited Partnership sued the State of Connecticut and the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection over delays in processing and paying claims under the state’s underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program. After an earlier appeal revived only its mandamus claim, Aldin filed an amended complaint seeking an order compelling the commissioner to request…
Held: The Supreme Court granted the motion to dismiss. Because the legislation cancelled Aldin’s applications and eliminated the program’s funds, the court could no longer compel payment through the program. Even a decision in Aldin’s favor on the certified mandamus issues therefore could provide no practical relief.
Background: Louis Colasanti worked as an adjunct professor at the Community College of Vermont, which divides its academic year into spring, summer, and fall trimesters. He taught in spring 2024 and had a contract to teach again in fall 2024, but received no summer assignment. He knew before the spring term that he had not been…
Held: The Vermont Supreme Court reversed. It held that 21 V.S.A. § 1343(c)(1) barred benefits during the period between two regular but nonsuccessive academic terms when the parties agreed that the employee would work in those terms and the employee had a contract or reasonable assurance of work in the second term. Colasanti’s spring and fall teaching contracts, lack of a…