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  • Idaho store not responsible for sidewalk

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Jones BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court ruled Friday that a shopping center tenant did not owe its shoppers a duty to keep a sidewalk reasonably safe when the sidewalk was not part of its leased premises.

  • School district not liable for student fight

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Eismann BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court has upheld the judgment of a district court in favor of a school district, saying it wasn't liable for injuries stemming from a student fight.

  • Idaho SC upholds spine surgery ruling

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) -- The Idaho Supreme Court has upheld a district court's ruling in favor of a physician who negligently performed a spinal surgery on a patient.

  • Idaho SC weighs in on water dispute

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Eismann BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision last week, upheld a lower court's judgment protecting senior decreed water rights in the state's Thousand Springs region.

  • Boomers not at fault for brawl

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Jones BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a Lewiston-area bar, Boomers, was not responsible for injuries allegedly inflicted upon a man during a random, outside brawl

  • Tiger preserve's lawsuit filed too late, Idaho SC says

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Jones BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court ruled last week that a tiger preserve's tort claim against a state agency was untimely.

  • Idaho SC affirms arbitrator's decision

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Eismann BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court has upheld an arbitration award of more than $15,000, affirming a lower court decision in favor of a bank that claimed it was owed nearly as much by a delinquent cardholder.

  • Idaho SC: School not at fault for murder of student

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Horton BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court, in an opinion filed on Monday, affirmed the decision of a lower court that dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit that stemmed from the murder of a high school student.

  • Ten who took part in Vietnam

    By Legal News Line |
    With the recent controversy over claims made by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Legal Newsline takes a look at 10 state attorneys general and state supreme court justices who found themselves in Vietnam during the war.

  • Idaho SC vacates $63 million verdict in hospital case

    By Kathy Woods |
    BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline)-The Idaho Supreme Court has vacated the largest jury verdict in state history, sending back to trial the case between MRI Associates and Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.

  • Idaho Supreme Court sides with Hanks

    By Kathy Woods |
    Tom Hanks BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline)-The Idaho Supreme Court this week ordered a second arbitration in the construction case actor Tom Hanks and his wife brought against a construction company.

  • Utah SC hears DRAM price-fixing case

    By Chris Rizo |
    BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline)-The Idaho Supreme Court is considering whether a shareholder's lawsuit against Micron Technology Inc.'s board of directors should be allowed to proceed.

  • AP still going after Maynard's e-mails

    By Justin Anderson |
    Maynard CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Though former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard lost the election, The Associated Press still is going after eight of his e-mails to Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.

  • Idaho chief justice undergoes chemotherapy

    By Chris Rizo |
    Dan Eismann BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline)-The chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatments, a statement said Wednesday.

  • Idaho justices: Illegal immigrants entitled to medical assistance

    By Chris Rizo |
    Justice Roger Burdick BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline) - The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday ruled that an illegal immigrant who was injured is entitled to medical assistance from Ada County.

  • Horton narrowly re-elected to Idaho Supreme Court

    By Chris Rizo |
    Joel Horton BOISE, Idaho (Legal Newsline)- Idaho Supreme Court Justice Joel Horton has won re-election to the state's highest court after narrowly defeating a state district court judge who challenged him.

  • Idaho SC justice seeks full term

    By Chris Rizo |
    Justice Joel Horton BOISE-Idaho Supreme Court Justice Joel Horton of Boise is vying for a full term on the high court, after being appointed by the governor to fill out the unexpired term of a retiring justice less than a year ago.

  • Four named finalists for Idaho Supreme Court

    By Legal News Line |
    Justice Linda Copple Trout BOISE -- Two women are among the final four candidates to take the seat on the Idaho Supreme Court left vacant by the August retirement of Linda Copple-Trout, who was the first woman on the state's highest court when she was appointed by former Gov. Cecil Andrus in 1992.

  • Retired Idaho CJ will referee more water fights in new IDWR post

    By Legal News Line |
    Justice Gerald F. Schroeder BOISE -- Former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald Schroeder enjoyed just one day of "retirement" before pulling the black-and-white shirt back on to referee one of the state's messiest disputes.

  • Attorney general butts in, butts out of Colo. water-rights spat

    By Legal News Line |
    John Suthers DENVER -- The vexed question of water rights in western states appears to have thrown Colorado Attorney General John Suthers into a legal spin.