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Farmers Brothers Coffee v. Workers ' Compensation Appeals Board - 10/17/2005
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
BACKGROUND
We issued a writ of review on April 4, 2005, with regard to two workers' compensation matters and consolidated them for argument and decision. Each petition contends that the Immigration...
Folsom v. Workers ' Compensation Appeals Board - 10/17/2005
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
California Rules of Court, rule 977(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 977(b). This opinion has...
Delgado v. A. Garcia Harvesting - 10/17/2005
In this workers' compensation appeal, Delgado, the former employee of appellee, A. Garcia Harvesting, Inc., appeals an order directing him to submit to monthly job interviews for the purpose of aiding him in his vocational...
Sargent v. International Paper Co. - 10/17/2005
Submitted October 1, 2005
AFFIRMED
In this workers' compensation action, Carolyn Sargent appeals the trial court's order affirming the order of the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission (Commission) denying...
Medina v. Harold J. Becker Co. - 10/14/2005
DECISION.
{ } This author, at least, in ten years on this court, has not voted to reverse a summary judgment entered in favor of an employer in an intentional-tort case. But there is a first time for everything.
{ }...
Dallas Area Rapid Transit v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local No. 1338 - 10/14/2005
Before Justices Whittington, Francis, and Lang
Amalgamated Transit Union Local No. 1338 sued Dallas Area Rapid Transit for violations of a general grievance resolution. DART filed a plea to the jurisdiction, claiming...
Halfmann v. Employers General Insurance Co. - 10/14/2005
James P. Halfmann appeals from the district court's summary judgment that he take nothing from Employers General Insurance Company in his suit for judicial review of the denial of worker's compensation benefits. Halfmann raises...
Tarkeshian v. Labor Commission and Salt Lake County Public Works - 10/14/2005
MEMORANDUM DECISION
Not For Official Publication
Original Proceeding in this Court
Before Judges Davis, McHugh, and Thorne.
Mostafa Tarkeshian appeals the Utah Labor Commission's (the Commission) decision...
McConaughey v. Workers ' Compensation Appeal Board - 10/14/2005
Doloris J. McConaughey (Claimant) petitions for review of those portions of the October 28, 2004, order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) affirming the decision of a workers' compensation judge (WCJ) (1) to deny...
Washington v. Qwest Communications Corp. - 10/14/2005
Hendry, C.J., Wright, Connolly, Gerrard, McCormack, and Miller-Lerman, JJ.
NATURE OF CASE
William A. Washington, while an employee of ConAgra, Inc., was injured when he tripped over a wire lying on the ground between a...
Karr v. Bermeosolo - 10/14/2005
2005 Opinion No. 107
The decision of the district court granting summary judgment is affirmed.
I. INTRODUCTION
This is a wrongful termination of a public employee case. The employee contends she was terminated from...
Caritas Medical Center v. Stout - 10/14/2005
AFFIRMING
BEFORE: GUIDUGLI, JOHNSON, AND McANULTY, JUDGES.
Appellant Caritas Medical Center (hereinafter Caritas) appeals the Opinion of the Workers' Compensation Board (the Board). In its Opinion, the Board affirmed the...
Rodriguez v. Linens `N Things - 10/14/2005
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
California Rules of Court, rule 977(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule...
Garay v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group - 10/14/2005
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
California Rules of Court, rule 977(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule...
Ranney v. Whitewater Engineering - 10/14/2005
No. 5949
Before: Bryner, Chief Justice, Matthews, Eastaugh, Fabe, and Carpeneti, Justices.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Alaska Workers' Compensation Act provides that when an employee suffers a work-related death, the...
Wedbush Morgan Sercurities Inc. v. Worley - 10/13/2005
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
California Rules of Court, rule 977(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule...
McGregor v. Grimes - 10/13/2005
Argued November 19, 2004
Before FARRELL and REID, Associate Judges, and STEADMAN, Senior Judge.
Appellant Michael McGregor was injured in a workplace accident involving a motor vehicle that was allegedly caused by the...
Douglas v. Kriegsfeld Corp. - 10/13/2005
Argued En Banc November 1, 2004
Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, TERRY, SCHWELB, FARRELL, WAGNER, RUIZ, REID, and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges, and FERREN, Senior Judge.
Concurring opinion by Associate Judge FARRELL, with whom...
Frisch's Restaurant - 10/13/2005
{ } Plaintiffs-appellants, Frisch's Restaurants, Inc., United Dairy Farmers, Inc., J.W. Harris Co., Inc., and Peck, Hannaford & Briggs (collectively "appellants"), appeal from the March 28, 2005 judgment of the Franklin County...
State ex rel Ward v. Dorman Products - 10/13/2005
(REGULAR CALENDAR)
DECISION
IN MANDAMUS
ON OBJECTIONS TO THE MAGISTRATE'S DECISION
{ } Relator, Kathryn Ward, filed this original action requesting a writ of mandamus ordering respondent, Industrial Commission...
Tipton v. University of Michigan - 10/13/2005
UNPUBLISHED
Before: Talbot, P.J., and White and Wilder, JJ.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from a Court of Claims order granting defendant's motion for summary disposition and dismissing plaintiff's complaint. We affirm....
Tew v. Hillsdale Tool & Manufacturing Co. - 10/13/2005
FOR PUBLICATION
Before: Fort Hood, P.J., and Meter and Schuette, JJ.
Plaintiff appeals as on leave granted from an order of the Worker's Compensation Appellate Commission (WCAC) that affirmed the magistrate's decision to...
Zwieg v. Pope Douglas Solid Waste - 10/13/2005
This workers' compensation matter comes before us by certiorari upon the relation of Pope Douglas Solid Waste and Minnesota Counties Insurance Trust to review a decision of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals (WCCA) reversing,...
State v. Gomez - 10/13/2005
On April 24, 2001, appellant Charden Gomez was indicted for the March 17, 2001, murders of Abel and Esther Hillman in Minneapolis. After a jury trial in Hennepin County District Court, Gomez was found guilty of two counts of...
Hannan v. State - 10/13/2005
Submitted on Briefs: August 17, 2005
Pursuant to Section I, Paragraph 3(d)(v), Montana Supreme Court 1996 Internal Operating Rules, as amended in 2003, the following memorandum decision shall not be cited as precedent. Its case...
Weston v. Waste Management - 10/13/2005
FACTS
The employee-appellant, Thomas Gary Weston, was working as a roll-off driver for the defendant-appellee, Waste Management, when a work-related accident occurred on June 28, 2000. Mr. Weston's job entailed driving an...
Dean Foods Co. v. Anderson - 10/13/2005
In this appeal, appellants Dean Foods Company d/b/a Bell Gandy's, Inc. (Dean Foods) and the Texas Worker's Compensation Commission (TWCC) challenge the trial court's award of attorney's fees to cross-appellant Debra Anderson...
Vela v. City of Houston - 10/13/2005
Appellant, Richard Vela, appeals the trial court's order granting summary judgment in favor of appellee, the City of Houston ("the City"), for an alleged violation of section 554 of the Texas Government Code, also known as the...
Sanchez v. State - 10/12/2005
Opinion on Second Remand by: John F. Onion, Jr., Justice
Sitting: Catherine Stone, Justice, Phylis Speedlin, Justice, John F. Onion, Jr., Justice.
REVERSED AND REMANDED
"Only when the law is the soul of fairness can...
In re Compensation of Drury - 10/12/2005
Argued and submitted July 29, 2005.
Before Edmonds, Presiding Judge, and Wollheim and Schuman, Judges.
Affirmed.
SAIF seeks review of an order of the Workers' Compensation Board affirming an award of permanent partial...
Lahmann v. Grand Aerie of Fraternal Order of Eagles - 10/12/2005
Argued and submitted April 8, 2005.
Before Wollheim, Presiding Judge, and Edmonds and Schuman, Judges.
Affirmed.
Edmonds, J., dissenting.
This case requires us to decide whether the Fraternal Order of Eagles'...
Landry v. Lewis - 10/12/2005
Submitted September 9, 2005
AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, AND MODIFIED IN PART
This is an appeal from a post-divorce action in which the trial court denied Husband's request to reduce his child support obligation,...
Florida Bar v. Shoureas - 10/12/2005
We have for review the referee's reports in two cases involving ethical breaches by Marjorie Hollman Shoureas. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. We consolidate the cases for purposes of this opinion. We approve the...
Oconee Area Home Care Services - 10/12/2005
BLACKBURN, P. J., MILLER and BERNES, JJ.
In this workers' compensation action, S.E.U.S. Captive Insurance Company appeals the superior court's reversal of the Workers' Compensation Board's decision that James Burton's...
Yates v. Iowa West Racing Association - 10/12/2005
Defendants appeal jury verdicts for plaintiffs on claims of negligence and slander. REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Heard by Sackett, C.J., and Mahan and Miller, JJ.
I. Background Facts & Proceedings
Iowa West Racing...
Summit Claims Management - 10/12/2005
This appeal arises from an order denying a workers' compensation lien on settlement proceeds that were generated through a third-party tort suit. The order denying the lien was entered by final summary judgment. See Fla. R. Civ. P....
Nicoloff v. Trader Joe's Co. - 10/12/2005
Defendant Trader Joe's Company, Inc. (Trader Joe's), appeals from an order for attorney fees and costs in favor of Plaintiff Imari Nicoloff (Nicoloff), asserting that she was not a prevailing party and therefore was not entitled to...
Powers v. City of Fayetteville Municipal League WCT - 10/12/2005
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
Retired Fayetteville firefighter Martin Powers brings this appeal from a decision of the Arkansas Worker's Compensation Commission (Commission) denying his claim for hearing loss. While Arkansas...
Pulaski County Special School Dist. v. Stalnaker - 10/12/2005
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
The Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission (Commission), affirming and adopting the decision of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), found that appellee Becky Stalnaker was entitled to additional...
Snowden v. Poulan/Weedeater - 10/12/2005
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
This appeal arises out of a decision of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission refusing to set aside a joint petition settlement on the ground of alleged fraud. The appeal is without merit....
Valles v. Health Net of California - 10/12/2005
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
California Rules of Court, rule 977(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 977(b). This opinion has...
Dunwoodie v. Salvation Army - 10/11/2005
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
California Rules of Court, rule 977(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule...
Ma v. People - 10/11/2005
JUDGMENT REVERSED AND CASE REMANDED WITH DIRECTIONS
EN BANC
JUSTICE COATS dissents, and JUSTICE KOURLIS and JUSTICE RICE join in the dissent.
I. Introduction
In this appeal we construe the term "law enforcement...
State v. Reese - 10/11/2005
The employer challenges a workers' compensation order by which the judge of compensation claims (1) applied the statutory presumption specified in the "Heart-Lung" statute, section 112.18, Florida Statutes, in determining that the...
Osceola County School Board v. Boos - 10/11/2005
The employer and servicing agent appeal a workers' compensation order by which the claimant was awarded temporary disability benefits based upon the $20 per week minimum compensation rate referenced in section 440.12(2), Florida...
Solsaa v. Werner Enterprises - 10/11/2005
In this workers' compensation appeal, Cherie Solsaa seeks reversal of an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) which denied her claim for death benefits following the death of her husband, a truck driver and delivery man...
Haygood v. Salvation Army - 10/11/2005
UNPUBLISHED
Before: Hood, P.J., and White and O'Connell, JJ.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court's order granting summary disposition in favor of defendant, The Salvation Army ("defendant"). We affirm. ...
Morales v. Spring Scaffolding - 10/11/2005
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
Angela M. Mazzarelli, J.P., George D. Marlow,...
Pino v. Robert Martin Co. - 10/11/2005
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, J.P., SONDRA MILLER, FRED...
Negron v. City of New York - 10/11/2005
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
THOMAS A. ADAMS, J.P., WILLIAM F. MASTRO,...
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