Idaho Supreme Court - Civil Decisions 2020
Date: December 23, 2020
Docket Number: 47488
Justia Opinion Summary: Rockne Lee Hollingsworth brought a medical malpractice claim against a local hospital and doctor in Gem County, Idaho district court. The district court found Hollingsworth lacked due diligence in failing to determine…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: 47483
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a dispute over the ownership of Treasure Valley Manufacturing & Recycling, Inc., (“TVM”). Daniel Weitz appealed a district court order granting summary judgment in favor of David Weitz and John…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: 47602
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue before the Idaho Supreme Court in this matter was what portion of a military retirement benefit was subject to division following divorce. Specifically, the Court was asked to decide whether a 2017 amendment to…
Date: December 18, 2020
Docket Number: 47133
Justia Opinion Summary: Originally, Western Pacific Timber, LLC (WPT) was solely owned by Timothy Blixseth (Blixseth). Andrew Hawes contended Blixseth hired him to be general counsel for WPT in 2005, and that when he was hired, Blixseth agreed…
Date: December 10, 2020
Docket Number: 47548
Justia Opinion Summary: At the heart of this case was a highway right-of-way proposed and approved in 1908 by the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners (the Board), then purportedly abandoned in 1910. This appeal arose from a decision of the…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Number: 47511
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a fee dispute between two attorneys arising from a purported fee-sharing agreement. The underlying case involved an airman in the U.S. Air Force who was injured while driving through Idaho on his way…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Number: 47543
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from a district court’s alleged failure to follow the Idaho Supreme Court’s holding in Frizzell v. DeYoung, 415 P.3d 341 (2018) ("Frizzell I") after remand. In Frizzell I, the Supreme Court held that an…
Date: November 20, 2020
Docket Number: 47004
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue before the Idaho Supreme Court in this case was whether the Public Records Act authorized the Idaho Department of Correction (“Department”) to withhold certain records in response to a public records request. In…
Date: November 20, 2020
Docket Number: 47196
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a domestic dispute between Analli Salla and Duane Siercke, and centered on whether any privilege from defamation claims applied to statements made to law enforcement. Salla appealed the district…
Date: November 16, 2020
Docket Number: 47304
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2018, Derik and Jessica Smith bought property next to Carl and Anita Owen. The Smiths erected a fence along the boundary defined in a survey that was completed as part of their purchase agreement. The Owens disputed…
Date: November 10, 2020
Docket Number: 47449
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from the probate of Eric Milo Hirning’s will, and concerned a magistrate court’s authority to conduct formal probate proceedings and approve an estate’s final accounting and distribution. Three…
Date: November 2, 2020
Docket Number: 46827
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from a dispute over the construction of a ready-mix concrete manufacturing facility in Teton County, Idaho. In 2007, Burns Holdings entered into a development agreement with Teton County regarding…
Date: November 2, 2020
Docket Number: 47122
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a number of disputes between two brothers, Galust Berian (Galust) and Ovanes Berberian (Ovanes). In June 2017, Galust and Julia Berian (Galust's daughter and Ovanes' niece) were arrested after Ovanes…
Date: November 2, 2020
Docket Number: 47246
Justia Opinion Summary: Scott Carter, Amelia Carter, and Scott Carter, Inc., dba Carter Dental (collectively “Carter”) appealed the grant of summary judgment in favor of Gateway Parks, LLC (hereinafter “Gateway”). This case concerned Carter’s…
Date: November 2, 2020
Docket Number: 48053
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of prisoners (“Petitioners”) sought a writ of habeas corpus based on the conditions of their confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Petitioners were all incarcerated at the Elmore County Jail (“Jail”),…
Date: October 23, 2020
Docket Number: 46639
Justia Opinion Summary: David and Margaret Fisk appealed after a district court granted summary judgment in favor of Jeffery D. McDonald, M.D., and the Hospital on their medical malpractice claims. The district court granted summary judgment on…
Date: October 19, 2020
Docket Number: 47165
Justia Opinion Summary: Debra Dlouhy, Dustin Dlouhy, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Duane Dlouhy (“the Dlouhys”) appealed a district court order granting summary judgment in favor of Kootenai Health. The district…
Date: October 16, 2020
Docket Number: 47101
Justia Opinion Summary: Connie Schoeffel worked for Thorne Research, Inc. (“Thorne”) as a kitchen manager. In 2016, Thorne announced that it would be moving its operations from Idaho to South Carolina. For those employees who would not be…
Date: October 9, 2020
Docket Number: 47057
Justia Opinion Summary: Attorney Craig Wise appealed a district court’s determination that he breached a duty of care owed to Billy Kyser, Jr., as a beneficiary of Carolyn Kyser’s will. Wise represented Billy’s mother, Carolyn, in divorce…
Date: October 8, 2020
Docket Number: 47098
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Derrick Lingnaw, a registered sex offender, sought declaratory relief from the district court asking whether he could legally reside on his property. The district court found Lingnaw’s residence was within five…
Date: October 6, 2020
Docket Number: 47482
Justia Opinion Summary: The Idaho Department of Finance ("Department") filed a civil enforcement action against appellant appellant, Sean Zarinegar, Performance Realty Management LLC ("PRM") and other nominal defendants, alleging Zarinegar and…
Date: October 5, 2020
Docket Number: 46832
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Ballard Smith (Husband) and Charlie Smith (Wife) stipulated to a final divorce order that required the parties to sell real property located in Salt Lake City, Utah and allocate the net proceeds to both parties…
Date: October 5, 2020
Docket Number: 47261
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs John Oswald and Nancy Poore appealed a district court judgment granting summary judgment in favor of defendant Costco Wholesale Corporation ("Costco"). In February 2017, Oswald and Poore were walking on that…
Date: August 31, 2020
Docket Number: 47346
Justia Opinion Summary: Bret and Mary Bennett filed an action to quiet title to their residence in Payette, Idaho, against the Bank of Eastern Oregon (“BEO”), seeking to remove a judgment lien and a deed of trust. In 2007, the Bennetts started…
Date: August 17, 2020
Docket Number: 46930
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Sky Duncan’s daughter, K.R., attended a daycare Anna McCowin ran out of a residence she leased from Respondent Scott Long. In 2014, McCowin left K.R. unattended in the backyard, which allowed K.R. to allegedly…
Date: August 7, 2020
Docket Number: 46721
Justia Opinion Summary: While living in California, Jefri and Debbie Davis sought to purchase a home in northern Idaho, and hired Charles Tuma and Tuma’s broker, Donald McCanlies, to help them. Tuma and McCanlies both worked for Johnson House…
Date: August 7, 2020
Docket Number: 47270
Justia Opinion Summary: Kirby Vickers filed a grievance letter with Idaho Board of Veterinary Medicine (the Board”) against a veterinarian requesting that they take various disciplinary actions. After an investigation, the Board declined to…
Date: August 5, 2020
Docket Number: 47099
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from Stan and Donna Griffiths' divorce. Donna appealed the trial court's decisions: (1) denying her motion to dismiss Stan’s appeal; and (2) reversing in part and affirming in part the magistrate…
Date: August 5, 2020
Docket Number: 47536
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States District Court for the District of Idaho certified a question of law to the Idaho Supreme Court. Plaintiff was a prisoner in the custody of the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC), currently…
Date: August 3, 2020
Docket Number: 46443
Justia Opinion Summary: In the summer of 2014, Mark and Jennifer Porcello sought to purchase property In Hayden Lake, Idaho. After making various pre-payments, the amount the couple was still short on a downpayment. Mark and Jennifer could not…
Date: August 3, 2020
Docket Number: 46964
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant Nicole Packer was injured when she fell from an unlit loading dock at the Kingston Plaza in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Packer, working as a vendor at a Christmas-themed exposition, alleged she had been…
Date: July 30, 2020
Docket Number: 46334
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, the Kenworthys began construction on a two-story boat garage on Lake Coeur d’Alene. The Newtons’ property overlooked the location of the Kenworthys’ boat garage. The new structure was much larger than the…
Date: July 30, 2020
Docket Number: 46675
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the Idaho Supreme Court's review centered on a waste ditch that drained surface water from property owned by Lora Roberts through property owned by Thomas and Deanna Jensen (the…
Date: July 30, 2020
Docket Number: 47201
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal involved the enforceability of a premarital agreement between Julie Neustadt and Mark Colafranceschi. Before the two were married, they entered into a premarital agreement that required Neustadt to obtain a…
Date: July 30, 2020
Docket Number: 47427
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, Jack K. Davis (“Jack Sr.”) and Jeanne H. Davis created the Davis Family Trust (“Trust”), of which they were the grantors, trustees, and primary beneficiaries. The Trust was revocable until either Jack Sr. or…
Date: July 27, 2020
Docket Number: 47074
Justia Opinion Summary: Royal Von Puckett made the winning $100 bid at a sheriff’s sale for two unsatisfied divorce judgments totaling over $230,000. His attorney, Vernon Smith, was the judgment debtor on both judgments. Sharon Bergmann,…
Date: July 22, 2020
Docket Number: 46172
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the Idaho Supreme Court's review was the judicial review of a validation order issued by the Worley Highway District Board of Commissioners (the Highway District). The order validated…
Date: July 21, 2020
Docket Number: 47286
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonathon Frantz appealed a district court’s award of attorney fees entered against him and his clients, jointly and severally, as a sanction for frivolous conduct. This appeal arose from an easement dispute among family…
Date: July 21, 2020
Docket Number: 47363
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, Appellant Chris Drakos loaned Respondent Garrett Sandow $200,000.00. A promissory note executed by Sandow on November 30, 2010, secured the loan. In 2018, after receiving no payments, Drakos filed a complaint…
Date: July 21, 2020
Docket Number: 47927
Justia Opinion Summary: Angela Johnson and Patrick Murphy met online and began dating in 2014. When Angela discovered she was pregnant, she left Boise and began living with Patrick in his home in Coeur d’Alene. After the birth of their son, the…
Date: July 15, 2020
Docket Number: 46374
Justia Opinion Summary: Victor Bliss appealed the grant of summary judgment in favor of the Minidoka Irrigation District (“MID”). Bliss filed a complaint against MID in April 2017, alleging: (1) breach of contract; (2) breach of fiduciary duty;…
Date: July 15, 2020
Docket Number: 46731
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael D. Ferguson was initially excluded as a beneficiary from his parents’ marital trust (the Original Trust). Years later, Michael's mother, Sybil Ferguson, essentially reversed Michael's exclusion by exercising a…
Date: July 15, 2020
Docket Number: 46741
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants-patients Nathaniel Valencia and Emily Williams were self-pay patients who received emergency medical services at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center—Nampa, Inc. (“Saint Alphonsus”) in 2015. During their respective…
Date: July 15, 2020
Docket Number: 46818
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonathon Gregory appealed a district court’s award of summary judgment in favor of Richard and Eileen Stallings (collectively, “the Stallings”) in a breach-of-contract action stemming from the parties’ oral agreement to…
Date: July 15, 2020
Docket Number: 46852
Justia Opinion Summary: The Lola L. Cazier Revocable Trust (“Trust”) brought a quiet title action against Charles Drake Cazier (“Drake”) and Land Renewal Management, Inc. (“LRM”) pursuant to Idaho Code section 6-401. Drake answered separately…
Date: July 9, 2020
Docket Number: 47789
Justia Opinion Summary: A guardian ad litem (GAL) for two minor children appealed after a magistrate court determined the children should have been placed with their biological father in Mexico. Jane Doe I (Daughter) and John Doe II (Son) were…
Date: July 7, 2020
Docket Number: 47193
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal involved a dispute between a homeowners’ association and the City of Eagle (“the City”) over the public’s right to use a parking lot located on land owned by a homeowners’ association. T.R. Company, LLC…
Date: July 6, 2020
Docket Number: 46627
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2016, John Doe was cited for petit theft. Doe’s disposition hearing was held, and the magistrate court committed Doe to the custody of Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections (“IDJC”). the magistrate court ordered…
Date: July 6, 2020
Docket Number: 47056
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Sean Mocabee and Respondent Lindsey Wilson lived together, but were not married. In 2013, after receiving a large inheritance, Wilson fully funded the purchase of a home in Kootenai County, Idaho. Per Wilson’s…
Date: July 2, 2020
Docket Number: 46692
Justia Opinion Summary: The Lorenzen Revocable Trust (“Lorenzen”) and David and Cynthia Pearson owned neighboring properties near Hayden Lake in Kootenai County, Idaho. The properties shared a common driveway. The properties were originally…
Date: July 2, 2020
Docket Number: 46993
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose out of a stabbing that took place outside of an Idaho Falls bar. Steven and Audra Fell were patrons of the First Street Saloon, owned and operated by Fat Smitty’s L.L.C. (Fat Smitty’s). Towards the end of…
Date: July 1, 2020
Docket Number: 47041
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from a contractual dispute between the Christopher W. James Trust (“the Trust”) and Idaho Mineral Springs, LLC, a water bottling company owned by Helmut Tacke. In 2000, Tacke built Idaho Mineral…
Date: June 22, 2020
Docket Number: 47991
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Sherri Ybarra, the Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction, petitioned the Idaho Supreme Court for a declaratory judgment, writ of mandamus, or writ of prohibition to remedy various alleged constitutional…
Date: June 18, 2020
Docket Number: 46840
Justia Opinion Summary: Travelers Insurance Co. appealed a district court decision to affirm a final order of the Idaho Department of Insurance in favor of Ultimate Logistics, LLC (“Ultimate”). The Department of Insurance’s final order upheld a…
Date: June 11, 2020
Docket Number: 46936
Justia Opinion Summary: Max Pease failed to stop his vehicle before rear-ending Brent Weddle’s vehicle. The force of the collision caused Weddle’s vehicle to cross over into oncoming traffic and collide with a pickup truck owned by Mabel Robin…
Date: June 9, 2020
Docket Number: 46477
Justia Opinion Summary: In a divorce action between Lexi and Robert Ellis, the magistrate court granted Ms. Ellis’ motion for appointment of a receiver, subject to the express condition that the costs of the receiver would be paid from…
Date: May 22, 2020
Docket Number: 46941
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, Noell Industries, Inc. sold its interest in a limited liability company for a net gain of $120 million. Noell Industries reported the income to Idaho, but paid all of the resulting tax on the gain to the…
Date: May 21, 2020
Docket Number: 47069
Justia Opinion Summary: "Although seemingly a simple question of statutory interpretation, at its essence this case concerns a profound family tragedy that has left three young girls caught in the middle of a legal battle between four people…
Date: April 30, 2020
Docket Number: 47061
Justia Opinion Summary: After Christine Nelson quit her job at Franklin Building Supply in Pocatello, Idaho, due to what she described as a hostile and demeaning work environment, she filed for unemployment benefits with the Department of…
Date: April 28, 2020
Docket Number: 46180
Justia Opinion Summary: Joanie Smith was employed by the Glenns Ferry Highway District (the District) when she witnessed the District’s office manager overpaying herself on several occasions. Smith reported the overpayments to the District’s…
Date: April 22, 2020
Docket Number: 46885
Justia Opinion Summary: Sharon Walsh retained Swapp Law, PLLC, d/b/a Craig Swapp & Associates ("CS&A") after she was involved in two car accidents in 2013. In the negligence action stemming from the first accident, Walsh followed firm employee…
Date: April 20, 2020
Docket Number: 46247
Justia Opinion Summary: Investor Recovery Fund, LLC was the assignee of six claims held by individual investors who lost their investments in the Hopkins Northwest Fund, LLC (the fund). Randall Hopkins and Brian Murphy were the principals of…
Date: April 17, 2020
Docket Number: 46819
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerned an attempt by Jade Lee and Golden China, LLC, to appeal a magistrate court decision to the district court. The magistrate court awarded Brian Medrain dba Excellence Heating and Cooling (“Medrain”)…
Date: April 17, 2020
Docket Numbers: 47029, 47071, 47086
Justia Opinion Summary: Nampa Highway District No. 1 (NHD) brought this action seeking to quiet title to a thirty-three-foot-wide strip of land constituting the south half of West Orchard Avenue in Canyon County, Idaho. NHD claimed that a 1941…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 45425
Justia Opinion Summary: Nine-year-old girl Shaeley Noel was seriously injured while playing on playground equipment owned by the City of Rigby (City) and located in the City’s South Park. Shaeley and her parents (collectively the Noels) filed…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 46743
Justia Opinion Summary: Brett Woolley appealed an Idaho Industrial Commission (“Commission”) decision that found him ineligible for unemployment benefits. The Commission determined that Woolley was ineligible for benefits because he was a…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 47077
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this appeal presented for the Idaho Supreme Court's review centered on whether Sky Down Skydiving, LLC, improperly designated its tandem skydiving instructors and parachute packers as independent contractors,…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 47087
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a dispute over the return of earnest money following termination of an agreement to purchase a storage facility between River Range, LLC, (River Range), the buyer, and Citadel Storage, LLC, (Citadel),…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 47230
Justia Opinion Summary: Jane Doe (Mother) executed a voluntary consent to terminate her parental rights to Son. Mother shortly thereafter filed a motion to rescind her consent. The magistrate court denied the motion. Termination proceedings…
Date: April 16, 2020
Docket Number: 47534
Justia Opinion Summary: John Doe I (Child) was removed from the care of his paternal grandmother (Grandmother) and his father, John Doe (Father) after a referral was made to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (the Department). The…
Date: April 14, 2020
Docket Number: 46184
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal before the Idaho Supreme Court was the doctrine of successor liability and its applicability to a business known as “Fatty’s Bar” (“Fatty’s”). Tons of Fun, LLC opened Fatty’s in October 2010 and a…
Date: April 13, 2020
Docket Number: 46350
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeff Good and Harry’s Dairy entered into a contract providing that Harry’s Dairy would purchase 3,000 tons of Good’s hay. Harry’s Dairy paid for and hauled approximately 1,000 tons of hay over a period of approximately…
Date: March 26, 2020
Docket Number: 46926
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from Carol McCoy Brown’s petition for an elective share of her decedent husband’s augmented estate. When Michael Orion Brown (the decedent) died intestate, she discovered that he had set aside multiple…
Date: March 20, 2020
Docket Number: 46587
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael Richardson was injured while working, and attempted to recover personal injury damages outside of the worker’s compensation system. Hayden Homes subcontracted with Z&H Construction, LLC, Plumbing Unlimited, LLC,…
Date: March 12, 2020
Docket Number: 46403
Justia Opinion Summary: Natalie Shubert sued her former public defender, Michael Lojek, former Ada County chief public defender Alan Trimming, and Ada County (collectively the “Ada County Defendants”). In 2008, Shubert was charged with two…
Date: March 12, 2020
Docket Number: 46742
Justia Opinion Summary: Employers Resource Management Company (“Employers”) returned to the Idaho Supreme Court in a second appeal against the Idaho Department of Commerce. In 2014, the Idaho Legislature passed the Idaho Reimbursement Incentive…
Date: March 11, 2020
Docket Number: 45890
Justia Opinion Summary: Penny Phillips, her son, and daughter, brought a medical malpractice suit against various Idaho Falls health care providers. Phillips and her children alleged the health care providers were negligent in the care they…
Date: March 11, 2020
Docket Number: 46217
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) brought a civil enforcement action under the Environmental Protection and Health Act against David Gibson and VHS Properties, LLC, (“VHS”), for illegally operating a…
Date: March 9, 2020
Docket Number: 46350
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeff Good and Harry’s Dairy entered into a contract providing that Harry’s Dairy would purchase 3,000 tons of Good’s hay. Harry’s Dairy paid for and hauled approximately 1,000 tons of hay over a period of approximately…
Date: February 25, 2020
Docket Number: 46114
Justia Opinion Summary: The Board of County Commissioners for Bonner County, Idaho (“Board”) granted Stejer’s, Inc.’s request for three variances (“the Variances”) from applicable lot setbacks required by the Bonner County Revised Code.…
Date: February 21, 2020
Docket Number: 46797
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal stemmed from a dispute between neighbors over the validity of an easement. In 1997, the Fitzpatricks bought two adjacent lots. In 2016, while they still owned both lots, they recorded an easement that granted…
Date: February 18, 2020
Docket Number: 45214
Justia Opinion Summary: Phillip and Marcia Eldridge filed a medical malpractice suit against Dr. Gregory West (West), Lance Turpin, PA-C (Turpin), and Summit Orthopaedics Specialists, PLLC (Summit), alleging Phillip became infected with…
Date: February 18, 2020
Docket Number: 46258
Justia Opinion Summary: Michelle Ryerson appealed district court decisions entered during the dissolution and winding up of West Foothills TIC, a partnership in which she was a partner. Specifically, Ryerson argued the district court misapplied…
Date: February 18, 2020
Docket Number: 46265
Justia Opinion Summary: Glen Ward appealed an order and final judgment of the district court granting the State’s motion for summary dismissal and dismissing his petition for post-conviction relief. In 2014, Ward was convicted of sexual abuse…
Date: February 14, 2020
Docket Number: 45552
Justia Opinion Summary: Bennett Day, Trustee of Trust B of the Donald M. and Marjorie D. Day Family Trust, John Day, Dan E. Day, Holcomb Road Holdings, LLC, Donna Day Jacobs, and David R. Day (collectively, the Day family) appealed a district…
Date: February 14, 2020
Docket Number: 46672
Justia Opinion Summary: Siranoush Hiatt appealed an Idaho Industrial Commission decision that affirmed the Idaho Department of Labor’s denial of her request for unemployment benefits. The Commission determined that Hiatt was ineligible for…
Date: February 13, 2020
Docket Number: 46027
Justia Opinion Summary: Amey Nelson brought a negligence claim against Stefani Kaufman, the Idaho Falls Anytime Fitness, and AT Fitness, LLC. Nelson was using a weight machine at the Idaho Falls Anytime Fitness under the direction of Kaufman, a…
Date: February 12, 2020
Docket Number: 46403
Justia Opinion Summary: Natalie Shubert filed a negligence claim against her former public defender, Michael Lojek, former Ada County chief public defender Alan Trimming, and Ada County (collectively, “Ada County Defendants”). In 2008, Shubert…
Date: February 10, 2020
Docket Number: 45542
Justia Opinion Summary: Francisca Gomez died as the result of a horrific industrial accident that occurred while she was cleaning a seed sorting machine as part of her employment with the Crookham Company (“Crookham”). Her family (the Gomezes)…
Date: February 6, 2020
Docket Number: 46205
Justia Opinion Summary: Shane and Rebecca Ackerschott sued Mountain View Hospital, LLC, doing business as Redicare (“Redicare”), after Shane sustained an injury leading to paraplegia. A jury found Redicare’s treatment of Shane breached the…
Date: February 5, 2020
Docket Number: 46638
Justia Opinion Summary: BrunoBuilt, Inc. appealed a district court’s dismissal of its claims against Strata, Inc., Chris Comstock, H. Robert Howard, and Michael Woodworth (collectively, “the Strata Defendants”). BrunoBuilt filed a professional…
Date: February 4, 2020
Docket Number: 45980
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue before the Idaho Supreme Court in this case was a suit for medical malpractice brought by Leila Brauner against AHC of Boise, dba Aspen Transitional Rehab (Aspen). The claim arose out of Aspen’s delay in sending…
Date: February 4, 2020
Docket Number: 47415
Justia Opinion Summary: In an expedited appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court, a magistrate court terminated Jane Doe’s (“Mother”) parental rights after finding clear and convincing evidence that Mother neglected her children, K.M. and R.M., and…
Date: February 3, 2020
Docket Number: 46595
Justia Opinion Summary: Primera Beef, LLC appealed a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Allan Ward. Primera Beef alleged Ward breached the confidentiality provision of a settlement agreement between him and Primera Beef when…
Date: January 31, 2020
Docket Number: 47466
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother Jane Doe appealed a magistrate court’s s decree terminating her parental rights. Both Mother and her child (Child) tested positive for methamphetamine when he was born. Law enforcement declared that Child was in…
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