Background: Erica Bluth was stopped by Reno police officer Tyler Baehr on New Year’s Eve. During the stop, Baehr took Bluth’s personal phone to his patrol vehicle, accessed stored images and videos, and used his own phone to photograph intimate material. The Sparks Police Department later investigated Baehr for that conduct and other incidents and interviewed…
Held: The en banc Nevada Supreme Court reversed. Justice Stiglich explained that the NPRA generally makes government records available for inspection unless a statute applies or competing confidentiality and privacy interests justify withholding them. When no statute directly controls, Nevada uses two balancing frameworks. Under the government-interest test, an agency may withhold records only when its interest in secrecy clearly outweighs…
Background: A jury convicted Johnny Angel Munoz of second-degree murder for the drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old girl at Lincoln Park in Cheyenne. Witnesses saw a dark SUV pass the park, its front passenger window lower, and shots come from that direction. Munoz occupied the front passenger seat. Police recovered four .380-caliber casings along the…
Held: The Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously affirmed. It held that the evidence permitted a rational jury to find that Munoz fired the fatal .380-caliber shot and did so purposely and maliciously. In an important clarification of Wyoming's sufficiency standard, the Court returned to its earlier formulation: appellate judges do not weigh conflicting evidence or assess witness credibility. The Court disapproved later…
Background: A creditor commenced bankruptcy proceedings against Rafael Rubinitz in 2015. According to the courts, Rubinitz repeatedly failed to perform his obligations during the proceeding and acted in extreme bad faith, prompting several earlier imprisonment orders. In November 2024, after he was questioned about information inconsistent with his claimed financial hardship, he agreed—while represented by counsel—to…
Held: Justice Ruth Ronnen denied both the application for leave to appeal and the stay request, without requiring responses from the respondents. The Supreme Court emphasized that bankruptcy courts receive broad discretion because of their expertise and firsthand familiarity with the proceeding and the parties’ conduct. Appellate intervention is therefore reserved for exceptional cases, and this was not one.
Background: The defendant captained a recreational motorboat on Lake Inawashiro. On September 6, 2020, while traveling at approximately 15 to 20 kilometers per hour, the boat passed over three people wearing life jackets and floating in the lake while preparing to ride a towable board. The rotating propeller killed an eight-year-old child and seriously injured a…
Held: The Supreme Court reversed the High Court and dismissed the defendant’s appeal, thereby restoring the trial court’s conviction and two-year sentence. Although the prosecution’s stated grounds for final appeal did not independently qualify under Article 405 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Court reviewed the case on its own authority and found reversible legal error under Article 411(1).
Background: Lam Research Corporation awarded employee Gary T. Turner 2,375 shares in 1988, and Turner retained the physical certificate. When Lam Research reincorporated from California to Delaware through a 1989 merger, its governing documents allowed holders to exchange their California certificates but provided that unexchanged certificates would continue to represent Delaware shares. Turner did not surrender…
Held: The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed. Although it did not adopt the Court of Chancery’s conclusion that the claims accrued when Lam Research filed the lost-securities form in 1989, it held that they accrued no later than 2014, when the company paid dividends to its stockholders but not to Turner. Because receiving dividends is a fundamental stockholder right, that omission reflected…
Background: Country Clean Recycling Unlimited Company sought permission for a waste transfer and recycling facility at Courtstown Industrial Estate, Little Island, County Cork. The proposed facility would accept up to 95,000 tonnes of wet and dry waste annually. Cork County Council initially granted permission in 2019, but the planning authority’s appellate body refused permission in 2021.…
Held: Humphreys J dismissed the proceedings and declined to quash the permission. The Court held that the Commission’s decision and the development plan had to be read holistically, rather than subjected to legalistic micro-analysis. The Commission had provided the main reasons on the main issues, and the applicant had not displaced the presumption that the matters which the Commission said it…
Background: Henry Lee Jones was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of Carlos Perez, who was found strangled and repeatedly stabbed in a Melbourne motel room. The State linked Jones to the crime through a hair whose mitochondrial DNA profile matched his, footwear impressions consistent with shoes found in his car, and similarities…
Held: The Florida Supreme Court held that withholding the FDLE conversation logs violated Brady v. Maryland. The logs were favorable impeachment evidence because they contradicted testimony that secondary transfer was a viable explanation, could have been used to challenge Bello’s denial that she knew Perez, and could have supported an attack on the thoroughness and reliability of the investigation. The Court…
Background: An employee of the Office public de l’habitat du Nord declared an illness on August 10, 2020. Because the illness was not listed in an occupational-disease table, the Primary Health Insurance Fund of Flanders referred the claim to a regional occupational-disease recognition committee. After receiving the committee’s opinion, the fund recognized the illness as work-related.
Held: The Court of Cassation quashed the appellate judgment in its entirety. It held that although the preliminary disability rating is not itself a separately appealable decision—and is not notified to the parties because of its provisional character—an employer may challenge that rating in support of an action seeking to prevent the occupational-disease coverage decision from being enforced against it.
Background: Stor RB One Ltd obtained summary judgment in October 2023 against Konnec Ltd under a receivables purchase agreement and against Sripiragash Kanthasamy under a personal guarantee. The defence, signed by Kanthasamy, admitted that he had entered into the guarantee and had not paid under it. The resulting order required him to pay £541,951 plus interest…
Held: The court held that Kanthasamy’s claim fell outside the “fraud of a party” rule. A judgment may be set aside for fraud where the fraudulent evidence is attributable to the party against whom the judgment is challenged, or where that party adopted another party’s fraud in the legally relevant sense. Merely benefiting from or innocently relying on a forged document…
Background: On September 24, 2026, the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy published a short video on her ministry’s official Instagram account. Without naming the applicant political party, she accused “a party” in Berlin of advocating expropriation, openly practicing antisemitism, frightening Jewish residents, opposing Jewish life, and welcoming organized crime at election parties. She described…
Held: By a 6–2 vote, the Second Senate granted interim relief and ordered the minister to remove the video from the ministry’s Instagram profile until the merits decision, subject to a maximum period of six months. The Court did not decide whether the statements were unconstitutional. It held only that the merits application was neither inadmissible from the outset nor manifestly…
Background: E.K.W., identified as Emily, was under a conservatorship established in 2012 that gave her mother, Lisa, authority over her person and property. The conservatorship was never formally terminated. After Emily’s son, Zane, was born in December 2022, CPS received reports that Emily and the child’s father lacked stable housing. The youth court removed Zane from…
Held: The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed. It held that Emily’s conservatorship remained in force because it had never been terminated by court order. Accordingly, service on Lisa was required under Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 4(d)(2)(B) for the youth-court adjudication proceeding.
Background: Wentworth granted Redstone Rockingham Marina Pty Ltd a put and call option concerning property at Hamilton, Queensland, at a purchase price of $39.5 million. Redstone was required to provide $2,172,500 in “Security” in three instalments. The agreement provided that security already paid would be forfeited if Wentworth terminated for Redstone’s material breach. Mr Patterson guaranteed…
Held: Freeburn J entered judgment for Wentworth against Mr Patterson for $1,972,500 plus $239,034.57 interest. The unpaid amount was an accrued contractual obligation under the security-payment clause, which Mr Patterson had guaranteed. Wentworth’s right to recover it arose when payment fell due; termination the following day did not extinguish that accrued right.