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Defendants subjected plaintiff to a painful assault. Consequently, plaintiff sued defendants for personal damages. After a trial, plaintiff was awarded compensatory and punitive damages. The present appeal followed, wherein defendant argued that the award...

The mother and father were divorced under a Mexican decree that required the father to pay child support. Through the mother, the children later filed the present action seeking a declaratory judgment that they were entitled to annual support and annual...

After a suspicious death in a New Mexico prison cell, police eventually identified defendant Paul Smalls, the victim's cellmate, and two other men as the perpetrators of murder. Their scheme was to smother the victim, and then claim he died of an...

Defendant was drag racing. The other driver lost control of his car on a curve and crashed. The driver of that car and his passenger were killed. Additionally, the drivers of two oncoming vehicles were injured in the crash. Defendant left the accident...

A police officer spotted defendant's truck, with lights on in the afternoon, parked at a highway intersection, with the truck half-on and half-off the road. Defendant was found slumped over at the steering wheel, unconscious and smelling of alcohol...

Defendant had consumed beer at a bar for several hours and left when his girlfriend got into an argument with his mother. The girlfriend, who had not consumed alcohol, began to drive the two home but noticed that defendant's mother was being thrown...

Plaintiff alleged that defendant suspended him from school for 10 days because he had posted a homepage on the Internet that was critical of the high school that he attended. The homepage's criticism included crude and vulgar language. Plaintiff moved...

Defendant was arrested on suspicion of burglary. He did not have his blood pressure medication with him. He was interrogated for several hours and was not advised of his constitutional rights. Defendant was eventually taken to a cell where the bed was...

Debtor fisherman filed for bankruptcy a year-and-a-half before the Secretary of Commerce promulgated regulations creating post-filing fishing quota rights based on the fisherman's pre-filing catch history. The bankruptcy judge ruled that in light...