Background: Havatzelet Pinhas is an Israeli citizen, and Hang Jujian is a Chinese citizen who entered Israel in 2006. After holding work and visitor visas, Jujian remained in Israel after his visitor visa expired in April 2019. His asylum application was denied, and his appeal from that decision was withdrawn in 2022. The Administrative Court subsequently…
Held: The Supreme Court treated the request for leave to appeal as though leave had been granted and an appeal filed, and allowed the appeal in a limited respect. With the respondents’ consent, the Court directed that amended section C.9 apply to the applicants’ status request. Jujian may therefore submit a reasoned application to the regional director within 30 days, asking…
Background: State investigators saw Aaron Curry display what appeared to be a Glock pistol during an Instagram livestream. Curry had a prior drug conviction that prohibited him from possessing firearms. An agent checked addresses associated with Curry, concluded that an East Clementine Street property in Philadelphia was his actual residence, and watched him come and go…
Held: The Supreme Court vacated the Superior Court's order and reversed, restoring the suppression ruling. It cited Commonwealth v. Jacoby for the rule that probable cause requires more than generalized statements about human behavior unsupported by the specific facts of the case.
Background: Executives of four major general contractors agreed to designate intended winners and coordinate bid prices for contracts to build underground terminal stations at Shinagawa and Nagoya for the Chuo Shinkansen maglev project. The project owner had invited the four contractors to submit competing estimates for several construction sections. In accordance with their agreement, the contractors…
Held: The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed all appeals. It held that, when realistic ability to supply the relevant services is disputed, a court should first examine objective facts concerning the nature of the work and each firm’s capacity to perform it. The four contractors possessed substantial technical expertise, personnel, equipment, and experience with construction near operating railway lines and with building…
Background: Zackary Matthew Maas entered Gabriel Wagoner’s basement apartment during the early morning while armed, confronted him about allegedly stolen property, and shot him in the back as the men moved up a narrow staircase. Wagoner initially survived but died about a month later from complications of the gunshot wound. Maas admitted shooting Wagoner but claimed…
Held: The Montana Supreme Court affirmed. It held that Wagoner’s statements at the scene, in the ambulance, and at the local hospital were nontestimonial because they were made during an ongoing emergency while the shooter remained at large. Wagoner’s later statements to his brothers also were nontestimonial because they were personal conversations with family members during a medical crisis, not substitutes…
Background: Niprose Investments Limited, a newly formed family company, agreed to buy eight residential units in “The Rise,” a partly buyer-funded off-plan development in Liverpool. It paid £299,800 in 50% up-front deposits on exchange, in addition to reservation fees paid before retaining Vincents Solicitors Limited. The deposits could be released toward the development’s marketing, construction, and…
Held: The High Court found one limited breach of duty: Vincents did not adequately explain the true meaning and effect of Schedule 2 or the limited protection supplied by its deposit-release mechanism. Mrs Ruth Nickoll, Niprose’s director, had not appreciated those limitations, and the court found that Niprose probably would have withdrawn from the purchases had adequate advice been given. Factual…
Background: Maryann Thomas sought uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage from Liberty Mutual for injuries arising from a 2020 automobile accident. During a transition between Liberty’s lawyers, Thomas served requests for admission on Liberty’s attorney of record at her former firm. The firm informed Thomas’s counsel that William O’Connor was handling the matter, and O’Connor and Margo Shipley entered…
Held: The Oklahoma Supreme Court majority held that the district court abused its discretion by refusing to permit Liberty to withdraw the deemed admissions. Withdrawal would promote resolution on the merits because the admissions resolved the central disputed issue—whether Thomas’s policy provided UM/UIM coverage—while Thomas failed to show that withdrawal would prejudice her ability to maintain the action. The majority emphasized…
Background: T.L.P., the child’s father and primary caregiver, repeatedly asked the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services to locate the child’s mother and have her assist with parenting. After an unannounced home visit raised concerns about marijuana exposure, the child’s condition, and the father’s mental health, the department obtained a removal order and filed a dependency-and-neglect…
Held: The Colorado Supreme Court held that, under the circumstances, the dismissal was a final, appealable order. Although temporary custody orders and pre-adjudication dismissals ordinarily are not appealable, this dismissal ended the action while locking in the practical effects of the temporary order: the child remained with the mother in another state, and the father lost any opportunity within the dependency-and-neglect…
Background: Edward Harding, aged 94, was the sole shareholder and formerly the sole director of three companies. In 2018, he granted an enduring power of attorney to his niece, Kim Allan. In July 2025, he executed another enduring power of attorney appointing three other people and revoking Allan’s appointment. Allan disputed the later instrument’s validity, contending…
Held: Parker J found that Professor Rosenfeld’s conclusions also established that Harding lacked capacity to conduct the litigation. Rule 7.14 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 therefore required the proceedings on Harding’s behalf to be conducted by a tutor. Because no application had been made under r 7.18 to appoint one, the Court stayed the proceedings on Harding’s statement of…
Background: OPCI Médicis, a variable-capital real estate investment company whose shares were 99.85% owned by Mutuelle Médicis, sold a real estate asset on April 30, 2015. Its board subsequently approved the repurchase and cancellation of shares held by Mutuelle Médicis as part of an €18.8 million capital reduction. OPCI Médicis paid that amount to Mutuelle Médicis…
Held: The Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal. On the procedural issue, it held that the minutes of OPCI Médicis’s board meeting were not an instrument making Mutuelle Médicis jointly liable for the registration duties because Mutuelle Médicis was not a party to that instrument. OPCI Médicis therefore could not challenge the reassessment procedure on the ground that the tax administration…
Background: The parties married in 2016 and had one child, who was ten years old and attending a local primary school when the ancillary matters were decided. Interim judgment was granted in April 2024 after a marriage of nearly eight years. Both spouses had worked during the marriage, and the court therefore applied the structured approach…
Held: The High Court valued the matrimonial pool at $8,065,790.21 and divided it 59.5% to the husband and 40.5% to the wife. It drew adverse inferences from the husband’s deficient disclosure. Where the concealed assets could be valued, the court used the quantification approach and added their values to the pool; for other disclosure failures, it applied a further 7% uplift…
Background: CheckFree Services Corporation sought a refund of Ohio sales tax it collected from customers between July 2011 and June 2015 for financial-services products. Its products included debit authorization, which helps determine whether a cardholder has sufficient funds for an ATM withdrawal or purchase, and disbursement authorization, which helps consumers make bill payments by debiting the…
Held: The Supreme Court of Ohio left undisturbed the board’s conclusion that debit authorization is nontaxable because the tax commissioner did not challenge it. But it vacated the board’s decision as to disbursement authorization because the board did not clearly explain what it decided or how it applied R.C. 5739.01(B)(3)(e).
Background: James R. Footman Jr. was convicted after a jury trial of robbing a Big Apple store in Lewiston on November 11, 2024, and, after waiving a jury, of violating a condition of release. The robber wore a medical mask and black Nike shoes with white trim, displayed a black-and-red-handled box cutter, and took $50.
Held: The Maine Supreme Judicial Court vacated the judgment of conviction and remanded for further proceedings. Evidence of an uncharged crime offered to prove identity must involve sufficiently distinctive similarities and must be supported by evidence that the defendant committed the uncharged crime.