Background: The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed a defense verdict for Campbell County Health in a medical-malpractice and institutional-negligence action arising from an alleged sexual touching in the hospital’s adolescent psychiatric unit. Kathleen “Katie” Rose entered the unit in January 2022 after a prior rape, psychiatric disorders, and suicidal ideation. While patients watched a movie in a…
Held: District Judge Hibben, sitting by designation, first held that the conservators preserved their objection to the special-verdict question. Their proposed alternative and their objection during the instruction conference sufficiently alerted the trial court to their position. Preservation did not carry the merits, however. A trial court has discretion over a special verdict’s form, and a threshold factual question was appropriate…
Background: Oksana Kuzmina and her daughter, Yelizaveta Kuzmina, are Ukrainian citizens. Oksana entered Israel in 2011 and married an Israeli citizen in 2012; her daughter later joined her. After initial doubts about the relationship, the Population and Immigration Authority approved their participation in the graduated status process and granted each temporary-resident status. The husband died in…
Held: Justice Ruth Ronnen treated the application for leave to appeal from the interlocutory stay ruling as an appeal and allowed it. The Supreme Court stayed the District Court’s permanent-residency judgment until the deadline for filing a request for leave to appeal that judgment, conditioned on the Authority granting both respondents B/1 visas during the interim period. No costs were awarded.
Background: Mizuho Bank applied to place Radiant World Corporation, a Singapore metals and minerals trader, under judicial management. Pending that application, Mizuho sought the appointment of interim judicial managers. Mizuho, Deutsche Bank’s Singapore branch and Intesa Sanpaolo had served statutory demands exceeding US$97 million, US$102 million and US$126 million respectively after buyers including Glencore and Vitol…
Held: The court granted the interim application. It found a prima facie case that Radiant was or was likely to become unable to pay its debts. Radiant had not shown a substantial and bona fide dispute, on the triable-issue standard, concerning Mizuho’s debt; the unsatisfied statutory demand therefore supported the statutory presumption of inability to pay. Deutsche Bank’s demand provided an…
Background: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (“ICCL”), a qualified entity under the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Act 2023, brought a representative action seeking injunctive relief against Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited. ICCL alleged that Microsoft infringed the GDPR when processing personal data through Xandr, a platform used to sell…
Held: The High Court held that Articles 5(2) and 24(1) GDPR do not produce a general reversal of the legal or evidential burden of proof. ICCL bears the burden of proving matters for which it is responsible, including that Microsoft is the relevant controller. If ICCL establishes the necessary predicate matters and the court must determine actual compliance, however, Microsoft bears…
Background: A Fayette County jury convicted Tyler Austin Jordan of first-degree arson and five counts of first-degree wanton endangerment after a fire at his Lexington apartment complex injured occupants of an upstairs apartment. Investigators determined that the intentionally set fire had three points of origin, including two inside Jordan’s apartment. Witnesses saw Jordan barefoot and wearing…
Held: The Kentucky Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth violated RCr 7.24(1)(a). Although the prosecutor maintained that discovery materials from the investigator had been provided on a thumb drive, the Commonwealth could not establish with sufficient certainty that Jordan’s recorded statement had actually been disclosed. The Court emphasized that inadvertence does not excuse the failure to disclose a defendant’s incriminating statement.
Background: King Media Limited held a 15-year lease permitting it to display an externally illuminated mesh advertising shroud, approximately 10 metres square, across the façade of 1 Great Eastern Street in Hackney. The building lies within the South Shoreditch Conservation Area and is identified as making a positive contribution to it. The advertisement had been displayed…
Held: Mrs Justice Lieven dismissed the statutory-review claim on every ground. The inspector gave adequate reasons for finding harm to the conservation area and was not required to assign that harm a precise position on a scale. Her finding that the advertisement undermined the wider historic environment was not inconsistent with the agreed conclusion that it caused no harm to the…
Background: The People’s Republic of China has sought Kyung Yup Kim’s extradition since 2011 so that he can face a murder charge. A Minister of Justice decided in 2016 that Kim should be surrendered. After extensive litigation and additional assurances from China concerning torture, fair-trial rights, and monitoring by New Zealand officials, the Supreme Court upheld…
Held: Justice La Hood dismissed the application. The Court held that the Minister had a reasonable basis for finding no sufficiently material change in circumstances since the Supreme Court’s decision to require a wider reconsideration of extradition. It was open to the Minister to conclude that China remained incentivised to comply with the case-specific assurances and that changes in the bilateral…
Background: In 2025, the federal government expanded the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, known as SAVE, to help state and local officials verify the citizenship of registered voters and voter-registration applicants. The modified program incorporated Social Security Administration records, including Social Security numbers and citizenship information, and permitted bulk searches. When SAVE cannot confirm citizenship,…
Held: The Supreme Court granted the government’s application and stayed the District Court’s June 22, 2026 order while the appeal and any timely certiorari proceedings remain pending. This was an interim ruling, not a final judgment on the legality of the modified SAVE program.
Background: Mussay Rezene was charged with first-degree murder and two firearm offenses after Brayan Villatoro was shot eight times in a District of Columbia alley. Phone records showed that Rezene and Villatoro arranged what appeared to be a Percocet transaction shortly before the shooting. Cell-location data placed Rezene near the scene and tracked the movements of…
Held: The District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that the circumstances created a substantial risk of a coerced verdict. From the jurors’ perspective, two members faced imminent and seemingly inflexible travel, the jury had twice reported an impasse, and the court had instructed it to continue deliberating without assuring the affected jurors that they could leave regardless of whether a…
Background: URSSAF d’Aquitaine sought to impose statutory financial solidarity on Company [1], a principal contractor, for social security contributions, penalties, and surcharges owed by a subcontractor accused of undeclared work. URSSAF sent the principal contractor an observations letter dated April 2, 2015, covering contributions for 2013 and 2014, followed by a formal demand dated May 21,…
Held: The Court of Cassation rejected URSSAF’s appeal. It held that a principal contractor pursued under article L. 8222-2 of the Labour Code may rely on procedural irregularities affecting the undeclared-work assessment imposed on its contracting partner. That conclusion followed from the Constitutional Council’s reservation that the statutory scheme must permit the principal contractor to contest the regularity, merits, and enforceability…
Background: Rachelle Hill sold her home in the Village of Arcadia and temporarily moved into her father-in-law’s home elsewhere in Hancock County. She and her husband had agreed to buy a vacant lot on Farmers Lane in Arcadia, where they planned to build a house, and Hill changed her voter-registration address to that property.
Held: The Supreme Court of Ohio granted the writ. The court held that the Farmers Lane lot was not Hill’s residence under R.C. 3503.02(A), which requires a presently fixed habitation and an intention to return to it when absent. Because Hill had never lived on the vacant lot and it contained no structure that could serve as a habitation, neither statutory…
Background: Chelsea Brittney Infanger died when her Cessna struck exhaust stacks at Gem State Processing near the approach to Runway 20 at Burley Municipal Airport. The stacks had been identified as a possible collision hazard, and the airport had deactivated its visual approach slope indicator because the stacks and silos penetrated its obstacle-clearance surface. During a…
Held: The Idaho Supreme Court affirmed. It held that, under the Idaho Tort Claims Act, a negligence-per-se claim against a government entity must first satisfy the public-duty rule: the statute must impose mandatory acts intended to protect a particular class, rather than the public generally. The Airport Zoning Act did not do so. Its enforcement provision was discretionary, and its safety…