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Recent Decisions From the Idaho Supreme Court - Civil
Date: January 9, 2019
Docket Number: 45517
Justia Opinion Summary: Monitor Finance, L.C., and First Capital Funding, L.C., (collectively referred to as the Beneficiaries) were the holders of a deed of trust, which encumbered the real property claimed to be owned in fee simple by Wildlif...
Date: December 29, 2018
Docket Number: 45644
Justia Opinion Summary: Kiki Leslie Tidwell appealed an Idaho Public Utility Commission order denying her request for intervenor funding. The underlying administrative proceeding involved an application by the Idaho Power Company for a Certific...
Date: December 28, 2018
Docket Number: 45181
Justia Opinion Summary: This case was brought by the North Idaho Building Contractors Association, Termac Construction, Inc., and other class members (collectively, “NIBCA”), to declare a sewer connection/capitalization fee the City of Hayden e...
Date: December 21, 2018
Docket Number: 45613
Justia Opinion Summary: Nearly two years after their car was rear-ended by the Guthmillers, the Crawfords filed a complaint seeking to recover against the Guthmillers. In the six months following the filing of the complaint, the Crawfords attem...
Date: December 21, 2018
Docket Number: 45995
Justia Opinion Summary: Jane Doe (“Mother”) appealed a magistrate court’s termination of her parental rights to her minor children, Jane Doe II (“T.T.”) and John Doe II (“D.T.”). The magistrate court found: (1) Mother had neglected her children...
Date: December 20, 2018
Docket Number: 45338
Justia Opinion Summary: Darin Bergeman appeals the district court’s dismissal of his action against Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. (SPS) and Mohamed Elabed. This case arose from disposition of a home and acreage owned by Bergeman’s mother, Ka...
Date: December 20, 2018
Docket Number: 46021
Justia Opinion Summary: A mother placed her twelve-year-old son in the care of his grandparents on a full time basis in August 2017. Three months later the father petitioned the magistrate court to modify custody to grant him residential custod...
Date: December 19, 2018
Docket Number: 45542
Justia Opinion Summary: The family of Mrs. Francisca Gomez (the Gomezes) appealed a district court decision granting Crookham Company’s (Crookham) motion for summary judgment on all claims relating to Mrs. Gomez’s death. Crookham is a wholesale...
Date: December 19, 2018
Docket Number: 45580
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue before the Idaho Supreme Court in this case was a magistrate court decision to deny a motion by Jane Doe (Mother), the biological mother of an adult, mentally-incapacitated child (Son) to set aside a decree of a...
Date: December 19, 2018
Docket Number: 46182
Justia Opinion Summary: Jane Doe (Mother) appealed a magistrate court judgment terminating her parental rights to her three minor children: PG, KG, and BG. Near the end of February 2017, Mother, who was thirty-five weeks pregnant with BG, went...
Date: December 18, 2018
Docket Number: 45313
Justia Opinion Summary: Victoria H. Smith was nearly 100 years old when she died on September 11, 2013. During her life she married Vernon K. Smith Sr., a lawyer who died of a heart attack in 1966. Victoria and Vernon Sr. accumulated substantia...
Date: November 28, 2018
Docket Numbers: 44722, 45368
Justia Opinion Summary: Val Westover filed this action seeking a declaration that the existence of the Idaho Counties Risk Management Program (ICRMP) violated Idaho law. This litigation followed an earlier dispute between Westover and Jase Cund...
Date: November 28, 2018
Docket Number: 45390
Justia Opinion Summary: Dale and Kathi Lee appealed a district court’s decision granting summary judgment in favor of Willow Creek Ranch Estates No. 2 Subdivision Homeowners’ Association, Inc. (the HOA). The dispute between the Lees and the HOA...
Date: November 28, 2018
Docket Number: 46041
Justia Opinion Summary: Jane Doe (Doe) appealed a magistrate court order in which protective custody of Doe’s three nieces and three nephews was awarded to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (Department). Following an adjudicatory heari...
