The mortgagor owned a plantation that consisted of land in cultivation. The mortgagor executed several promissory notes, a deed of trust to secure the notes, and he authorized the sale of the land at a public auction if he failed to pay the notes at maturity...

Plaintiffs-appellants musicians Tricia Lerohl and Shelley Hanson commenced two separate actions against defendant-appellee Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia, a nonprofit corporation that governs the Minnesota Sinfonia. Lerohl and Hanson allege that they...

Debtor Domistyle, Inc. owned a candle factory located on several acres in Laredo. Domistyle was a manufacturer and purveyor of home goods. It was placed in receivership in April 2013. Shortly thereafter, the receiver, Milo Segner, initiated Chapter 11...

At a joint trial of the defendant and his alleged accomplice, the accomplice did not testify, but the government introduced the accomplice's oral confession. The confession stated that the accomplice and defendant had committed the robbery. Both defendant...

Plaintiff in error advertising company was convicted of violating the city's ordinance, which regulated signs and billboards and provided that no sign could be more than eight feet high or less than 10 feet from the street line. The lower appellate...

A realty company conveyed by deed several parcels of land developed by it for a residential community. The deeds contained a covenant, that by its own terms was a lien that ran with land, and bound all subsequent to an annual fee for the purposes of maintaining...

Appellant contracted with Appellee to purchase the carat diamond for the quoted $235,000 price, paying with his American Express credit card. Shortly after the sale, appellee discovered that the $235,000 price was per carat. Starboard immediately notified...

Respondent inmate argued that his Oklahoma death sentence was invalid because it rested on an unconstitutional aggravating circumstance. Following adverse rulings on respondent's habeas action in the district court and before a circuit court panel...

A jury found Defendant guilty of sex trafficking a minor and conspiracy to sex traffic a minor. The district court imposed a life sentence.

Defendant, who was found guilty of three counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C.S. § 2113(a), appealed his conviction and sentence by the District Court, arguing that the district court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of Minnesota...