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Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. v. Workers ' Compensation Appeal Board - 12/23/2004
ORDER
AND NOW, this 23rd day of December, 2004, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby DENIED. ...
Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Workers ' Compensation Appeal Board - 12/23/2004
ORDER
AND NOW, this 23rd day of December, 2004, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby DENIED. The Leave to File Reply to Brief in Opposition; Leave to File Supplemental Petition for Allowance of Appeal; and a Petition...
Decius v. Action Collection Service - 12/23/2004
(For Official Publication)
Pat Decius, Diane Gallegos, Lorraine Mottes, and Ila Cash (collectively, Plaintiffs) appeal the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Action Collection Service, Inc. (Action). We...
Salt Lake County Board of Equalization - 12/23/2004
(For Official Publication)
The Salt Lake County Board of Equalization (the Board) appeals the district court's granting of summary judgment to Rio, Inc. dba Rio Grande Café (Rio), which upheld the Utah State Tax Commission's...
Peerless Insurance Co. v. Frederick - 12/23/2004
1. This action involves various insurance claims resulting from a fire that destroyed a building in which appellant, Young Buck Enterprises (Young Buck), operated the Bennington Station Restaurant. Young Buck leased the property from...
Antonius v. King County - 12/23/2004
Oral Argument Date: 09/30/2004
Concurring: Faith Ireland, Bobbe J Bridge, Charles W. Johnson, Gerry L Alexander, Richard B. Sanders, Susan Owens, Tom Chambers, Mary Fairhurst.
EN BANC
Petitioner King County (County)...
Adler v. Fred Lind Manor - 12/23/2004
Oral Argument Date: 06/08/2004
Concurring: Faith Ireland, Barbara A. Madsen, Charles W. Johnson, Gerry L Alexander, Richard B. Sanders, Susan Owens, Tom Chambers, Mary Fairhurst.
EN BANC
Like its companion case, Zuver...
Wanggaard v. Safeco Insurance Company of America - 12/22/2004
. Van H. Wanggaard appeals from the declaratory judgment entered in favor of Safeco Insurance Company of America. He argues on appeal that the trial court incorrectly determined that a reducing clause in an insurance policy issued to...
E. C. Styberg Engineering Co. - 12/22/2004
Submitted on Briefs: November 10, 2004
DECISION
. In this case, an employer and its insurance company challenge the Labor and Industry Review Commission's determination that an employee who sustained a knee injury while...
Wilson v. Workers ' Compensation Appeal Board - 12/22/2004
ORDER
AND NOW, this 22nd day of December, 2004, the above-captioned appeal is hereby quashed. ...
In re Consevatorship of Jones - 12/22/2004
Plaintiff/Appellant Beverly Anne Jones ("Mother") and Defendant/Appellee Kevin Thomas Jones ("Father") were married in 1970. Two sons were born of the marriage, Michael Thomas Jones, born in 1971, and Timothy Alan Jones, born in...
Thomas v. Bynum - 12/22/2004
Dan Thomas, a Texas prison inmate, filed suit against William Bynum and Billy Reese. Thomas alleged Bynum slandered him by calling him a "queer," and that he verbally abused him. Thomas claimed Reese, the shift lieutenant of...
Hernandez v. Universal City Studios Credit Union - 12/22/2004
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...
Eaves v. Regents of the University of California - 12/22/2004
Dorcas M. Eaves appeals from a judgment that denied her petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Regents of the University of California (University) to reinstate her to two positions with back pay, and provide proper notice of...
Monsanto v. Smith - 12/22/2004
An employer and its workers' compensation insurer appeal from a district court judicial review ruling reversing the workers' compensation commissioner's finding that claimant's petition for benefits was untimely. AFFIRMED. ...
Wilkes v. Ivan Smith Furniture Co. - 12/22/2004
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION.
Rule 2-16.3, Uniform Rules, Courts of Appeal.
This appeal arises from a workers' compensation judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Randolph Wilkes ("Mr. Wilkes"), and against...
Kidd v. Brown Radiator & Frame - 12/22/2004
ON REMAND
In this workers' compensation action, the defendant-employer appeals the judgment awarding its employee temporary total disability benefits for an eight month period and ordering an independent medical examination...
Messina v. Isle of Capri Casino - 12/22/2004
AFFIRMED AND REMANDED FOR PROCEEDINGS CONSISTENT WITH THIS OPINION.
The appellant, Isle of Capri Casino, appeals a judgment of the Workers' Compensation Judge finding that Tammatha Messina is entitled to benefits. Tammatha...
Dodson v. K-Mart Corp. - 12/22/2004
REVERSED AND RENDERED.
In this case, the defendants, K-Mart Corporation and its employee, Jeffrey Frazier, appeal the judgment of the trial court casting Frazier personally liable and it and Frazier liable in solido for injuries...
Flores v. Roof Tile Administration - 12/22/2004
On Rehearing Denied
The applicable statute provides:
440.205. Coercion of employees
No employer shall discharge, threaten to discharge, intimidate, or coerce any employee by reason of such employee's valid claim for...
Felland Limited Partnership v. Digi-Tel Communication - 12/22/2004
This is a private action, for monetary damages, under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, against an employer based upon an employee's alleged violations of the federal statute. The alleged violations consisted of...
Wilson v. Scanlon International - 12/22/2004
Considered and decided by the court en banc.
ORDER
Based upon all the files, records and proceedings herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals filed September 10,...
Cyr v. Wensmanns Homes - 12/22/2004
Considered and decided by the court en banc.
ORDER
Based upon all the files, records and proceedings herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals filed August 12, 2004,...
Reesor v. Montana State Fund - 12/22/2004
Argued and Submitted: May 5, 2004
Dale Reesor (Reesor) filed a petition for hearing before the Workers' Compensation Court in which he alleged he suffered injury arising out of and in the course of his employment with Northwest...
State v. Fuller - 12/22/2004
Argued December 2, 2003
This appeal raises the question whether a prosecutor may use peremptory challenges to excuse a potential juror who wears clothing associated with a religious group or who indicates in voir dire that he has...
Rios v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority - 12/22/2004
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.
Defendants' motion (No. 1069), inter alia, for summary...
Arth Brass & Aluminum Castings - 12/22/2004
Submitted January 13, 2004
Factual and Procedural Background
{ } Appellant, Arth Brass & Aluminum Castings, Inc. ("Arth"), is a private employer that participates in the State Insurance Fund for workers' compensation....
Arrington v. Daimler Chrysler Co. - 12/22/2004
DECISION AND JOURNAL ENTRY
This cause was heard upon the record in the trial court. Each error assigned has been reviewed and the following disposition is made:
{ } Appellant, James D. Arrington, appeals from a judgment of...
State ex rel Wooton v. Industrial Commission of Ohio - 12/22/2004
Submitted October 13, 2004
{ } In 1988, appellant-claimant, Janice S. Wooton, alleged that she had contracted an occupational disease arising out of her employment with Ohio State University ("OSU"). A workers' compensation claim...
State ex rel Middlesworth v. Regal Ware - 12/22/2004
Workers' compensation - Judgment reversed.
Submitted October 26, 2004
{ } Appellant-claimant Frances E. Middlesworth's workers' compensation claim has been allowed for "interstitial pulmonary fibrosis with bilateral apical...
City of Wilkes-Barre v. Workers ' Compensation Appeal Board - 12/22/2004
The City of Wilkes-Barre (Employer) petitions for review from the May 25, 2004 order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that reversed the order of the Workers' Compensation Judge (WCJ) granting Employer's petition for...
Verizon Pennsylvania - 12/22/2004
In this case we address the recently amended "fellow employee" limitation to a claimant's recovery of compensation and wages under Section 306(b)(1) of the Workers' Compensation Act (Act). Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc. (Employer)...
Vleet v. Montana Association of Counties Workers ' Compensation Trust - 12/21/2004
Submitted on Briefs: November 23, 2004
Mindy Van Vleet (Van Vleet), individually and as natural guardian of Vanesa Van Vleet, appeals from the judgment entered by the Montana Workers' Compensation Court (WCC) on its order...
Bustell v. AIG Claims Service - 12/21/2004
Submitted on Briefs: June 29, 2004
Ann Bustell (Bustell) appeals from the judgment entered by the Workers' Compensation Court (WCC) granting attorney fees at an hourly rate pursuant to § 39-71-614, MCA, instead of the full...
Wilkerson v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. - 12/21/2004
PUBLISHED
This appeal is by the unnamed defendant insurance carrier alleging that the Durham County Superior Court did not have jurisdiction to enter an order eliminating the carrier's workers' compensation lien; erred in...
Skinner v. Quintiles Transnational Corp. - 12/21/2004
PUBLISHED
Defendant appeals from an order denying their motion for judgment on the pleadings. Defendant moved for such a judgment based on the contention that the final judgment issued in the prior case Judy Skinner v. Quintiles...
Spicer v. New Hanover Regional Medical Center - 12/21/2004
An unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Rule 30(e)(3) of the North Carolina Rules...
Aboagwa v. Raleigh Lions Clinic For The Blind - 12/21/2004
PUBLISHED
Defendants Raleigh Lions Clinic for the Blind, Inc. (the "Clinic"), United Pacific Insurance Company, and N.C. Insurance Guaranty Association (collectively "Defendants") appeal from an Opinion and Award of the North...
Barbour v. Regis Corp. - 12/21/2004
PUBLISHED
By this appeal, Regis Corporation and Employers Insurance of Wausau ("defendants"), challenge the Industrial Commission's opinion and award of temporary total disability compensation and medical expenses to Tammy...
Lewis v. North Carolina Dep't of Correction - 12/21/2004
PUBLISHED
The North Carolina Industrial Commission (Commission) entered an opinion and award on 13 November 1995 awarding compensation to James J. Lewis (plaintiff) arising from plaintiff's posttraumatic stress disorder acquired...
Sherwin v. Cape Fear Valley Health System - 12/21/2004
An unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Rule 30(e)(3) of the North Carolina Rules...
Nunn v. Treasurer of the State of Missouri-Custodian of the Second Injury Fund - 12/21/2004
Opinion Vote: AFFIRMED.
White Hardwick, P.J., and Ulrich, J., concur.
Opinion:
Mr. Richard Nunn was a truck driver for C.C. Mid West. He was injured while making a delivery and claimed workers' compensation benefits....
Morgan v. City of St. Louis - 12/21/2004
Opinion Vote: AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED WITH DIRECTIONS TO REMAND.
Mooney, P.J., and Hoff, J., concur.
Opinion:
The City of St. Louis ("City") and its Civil Service Commission ("Commission") appeal the judgment reversing...
Rohland v. St. Cloud Christian School - 12/21/2004
In this appeal from a partial judgment granting respondent summary judgment on appellant's disability-discrimination claim, appellant argues that the district court erred by concluding that appellant did not establish a genuine issue...
Liftee v. Boyer - 12/21/2004
FOR PUBLICATION
Defendant-Appellant Alexene Boyer (Boyer) appeals the Judgment in favor of Plaintiff-Appellee Karl Liftee (Liftee) filed on August 25, 2000 in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (circuit court).
Boyer...
Hoopai v. Civil Service Commission - 12/21/2004
FOR PUBLICATION
LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA, ACOBA, AND DUFFY, JJ.; WITH MOON, C.J., CONCURRING SEPARATELY
We hold in this consolidated appeal in Civil No. 99-0-3248 and Special Proceeding No. 00-1-0090 (S.P. No. 00-1-90), (1) that...
In re Richards's Case - 12/21/2004
Suffolk.
October 12, 2004.
Workers' Compensation Act, Attorney's fees.
Appeal from a decision of the Industrial Accident Reviewing Board.
This case presents another variation of a frequently litigated issue:...
Alan v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County - 12/21/2004
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...
News America Marketing In-Store - 12/21/2004
This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a trial to the court, in favor of the defendants in an action brought by News America Marketing In-Store, Inc. (News America), against its former employee, the...
Church of Christ in Hollywood v. Cage-Barile - 12/21/2004
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...
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