Legal Wyoming top court sides with Sinclair refinery on fee-award question
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A Canadian oil refinery glows at dusk in Edmonton February 15, 2009. REUTERS/Dan Riedlhuber/File Photo
A Sinclair refinery can seek attorneysâ fees from Swiss insurer Infrassure under Wyoming law even though the policy was not issued in Wyoming or physically delivered in the state, the Wyoming Supreme Court held Monday in answer to a certified question from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In its first interpretation of a fee-award statute that applies only to insurance policies âdeliveredâ or âissued for delivery inâ Wyoming, the high court found the law âclearly and unambiguously provides that an insurance contract is issued for delivery in Wyoming if the policy issued is intended to protect an insured in Wyoming against risks in Wyoming.â
Last June, a project that has been met with some resistance from localized business owners and some Oneonta residents concerned about parking issues, The Lofts on Dietz got the green light following a victory in a lawsuit decision handed down by by Supreme Court Judge Michael Coccoma. The lawsuit brought against the City of Oneonta and Parkview Development was by Johna M. Peachin and others, claiming errors on the part of the City of Oneonta Planning Board in its approval of the Dietz Lofts project now under construction on Dietz Street.
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In that decision, Judge Coccoma commented, “the conclusion is inescapable that the Planning Commission identified the relative areas of concern (including parking); it took a hard look at them; and it provided a reasonable elaboration of the basis for its determination”.
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Man Who Spent 17 Years Behind Bars Has Murder Conviction Overturned Because His Lawyer Didn’t Contact at Least Five Possible Defense Witnesses Adam Klasfeld
Nearing two decades behind bars for a murder that he claims he did not commit,
James Davis told an appeals court that he gave his attorney the names of six people who attended the party where the shooting occurred and would support his alibi. Davis said that he knows his then-lawyer
Joel Medows did not contact five of them and was not sure he attempted to reach the sixth, either.
On Thursday, a New York appellate court ordered Davis a new trial on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel.