Contract Law No. 2018-0702 Dec. 17, 2019 Affirmed Whether a one-year statute of limitations in an insurance policy was unenforceable for violating public policy and whether genuine issues of material fact existed on several challenges to...
Criminal Law No. 2018-0637 Dec. 13, 2019 Affirmed Whether RSA 597:2 permits a trial court to set cash bail at an amount the defendant cannot afford solely because that defendant is a flight risk. The Court held that RSA 597:2...
Constitutional Law No. 2018-0651 Dec. 13, 2019 Katherine E. HedgesAn associate at Hage Hodes in Manchester practicing civil litigation and corporate law. Reversed in part; vacated in part; and remanded. Whether the trial court had subject...
Property Law-Leases An appeal from the 6th Circuit Court-Hillsborough District Division No. 2018-0141 Nov. 22, 2019 Vacated and remanded. Whether the failure to repair a tenant’s heating system violated RSA 540-A:3, I and RSA 358-A:10 when the...
Professional Licensing/ Regulation of Trades An appeal from Merrimack County Superior Court No. 2018-0537 Nov. 13, 2019 Affirmed. Whether the trial court erred in finding that plaintiffs’ declaratory judgment claims were, respectively...
Mental Health Law No. 2019-0283 Nov. 22, 2019 Affirmed. Whether the trial court erred in renewing the respondent’s conditional discharge mental health treatment plan The respondent appealed an order granting a petition for involuntary admission...
Criminal Law/Constitutional Law An appeal from Carroll County No. 2018-0464 Nov. 22, 2019 Affirmed. Whether application of and conviction under RSA 649-A under the presented circumstances violated the defendant’s First Amendment of the United...
Criminal Law/Constitutional Law Appeal from Sullivan County, No. 2018-0292 Nov. 26, 2019 Affirmed. Whether the trial court erred in holding the evidence against defendant was sufficient to support the jury conviction that he operated his...
Personal Injury Law No. 2018-0425 October 16, 2019 Affirmed in Part, Reversed in Part and Remanded Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant snowplowing contractor owed no duty of care to a plaintiff injured in her employer’s...
Family Law October 25, 2019 Vacated and Remanded Whether the trial court had subject matter jurisdiction under RSA 458-A:14 to entertain a petition to modify or terminate an out of state guardianship order. In 2017, the petitioner filed a...
Employment Law October 25, 2019 Affirmed Whether the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant school district on the plaintiff’s employment discrimination claim based upon her sexual orientation. The plaintiff was hired by...
Zoning No. 2018-0491 September 27, 2019 Affirmed Whether the trial court correctly upheld the city zoning board’s decision that the plaintiff corporation’s use of its property for short-term rentals was not permitted as a principal use in the...
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