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G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh vs. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh vs. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (08/14/2025)

The facts in this case are clearly outlined which present a question of whether the trial court erred in dismissing the appellant’s case during the disposition of law issues instead of allowing it to go to the jury. Before determining the said issue, it is prudent that we outline the relevant facts as it relates to the determination of this case.

The appellant herein, Counsellor G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh was employed by the appellee on November 1, 2007 as General Counsel and served in the said capacity for four years until he was dismissed on July 27, 2012 by the

Ministry of Mines & Energy v. T. David Sluward et al. (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Ministry of Mines & Energy v. T. David Sluward et al. (08/14/2025)

The appellees herein, T. David Sluward, Abraham Kamara, and Mohammed Kamara, are all holders of a Class “C” mining license, issued to them by the appellant herein, the Government of Liberia, by and thru the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
We observed that the appellees who were initially the petitioners, designated the Minister of Mines and Energy, et al. as the respondents, now appellant. Noting this erroneous designation, we state herein from the onset that unless a minister or an agent of a Government Agency is being sued in his personal capacity, he/she should not be designated as a party, as

Mariam Pauline Ammons v. The Intestate Estate of Browne (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Mariam Pauline Ammons v. The Intestate Estate of Browne (08/14/2025)

The appellants, Mariam Pauline et al., are before this Court based upon an appeal from the final ruling of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County, in an action of ejectment instituted by the appellee herein, the Intestate Estate of William E. Browne.
The appellants have presented for our review, a six (6) count bill of exceptions which they believe constitute reversible errors committed by the trial judge. We shall first delve into the records to ascertain the facts and procedure that obtained at the trial court.
The records show that on April 26, 2010, the appellee instituted an

Abi Jaoudi Supermarket & Azar Trading Corporation v. His Honor Yamie Gbeisay and the Testate Estate of King et al (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Abi Jaoudi Supermarket & Azar Trading Corporation v. His Honor Yamie Gbeisay and the Testate Estate of King et al (08/14/2025)

This appeal is from the ruling of our esteemed Colleague, Madam Justice Jamesetta H. Wolokolie, who presided in Chambers during the March Term of Court, A.D. 2022. The Justice in Chambers, upon hearing had on the petition for the issuance of the writ of certiorari, quashed the alternative writ, and denied the issuance of the peremptory writ of certiorari prayed for by the appellant, Abi Jaoudi Supermarket & Azar Trading Corporation.

The pertinent facts as culled from the records reveal that on January 6, 2021, the appellees, the Testate Estates of Etmonia L. King, Nancy E. Cooper, John H. Richards, and

Esther K. Venn vs. Marie Johnson and Thomas Yaya Nimley (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Esther K. Venn vs. Marie Johnson and Thomas Yaya Nimley (08/14/2025)

Our review of the records of this case reveals that the appellant, Madam Esther K. Venn, plaintiff in the court below, filed a complaint against the appellees, Marie Johnson, Thomas Yaya Nimely and James Gibson, defendants below, alleging that she, appellant, is the owner of ten (10) acres of land lying in the Township of Duazon which she acquired in 1994; that upon visiting the subject property in 2010, she discovered that the appellees, Marie Johnson and Thomas Yaya Nimley, had constructed on portion of the land without her consent, while co-appellee James Gibson was constructing a structure thereon; that

Abdullah Sonnie and Sadia Fon vs. Peter King et.al (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Abdullah Sonnie and Sadia Fon vs. Peter King et.al (08/14/2025)

The parties before this Court for the determination on this motion to dismiss an appeal, are Abdullah Sonnie and Sadia Fon, the movants and Peter King et. al, the respondents herein.

The records certified to this Court show that on June 13, 2024, the final ruling of the trial judge of the Monthly and Probate Court for Montserrado County was delivered, granting the petition filed by the movants to amend letters of administration by removing Peter King et. al, the respondents herein as administrators of the Intestate Estate of Robert King, whereupon, the respondents noted exceptions to this final ruling and

SEGAL V. Aggrieved Employees PROHIBITION (05/29/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

29 May, 2025

SEGAL V. Aggrieved Employees PROHIBITION (05/29/2025)

This matter is before us from an appeal announced in a ruling made by our distinguished colleague, Mr. Justice Yussif D. Kaba, Associate Justice in Chambers, denying appellant’s petition for the writ of prohibition which grows from the denial of the bill of information in the National Labor Court of the Eight Judicial Circuit Court for Nimba County.

The review of the facts in this case revealed that on the 19th of June, 2017, the 2nd appellees filed an eight (8) count complaint against the Management of SEGAL the appellant, before the Labor Commissioner in Sanniquellie, Nimba County, for unfair

MINSTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY v. ABU KAMARA -Declaratory Judgment (05/29/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

29 May, 2025

MINSTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY v. ABU KAMARA -Declaratory Judgment (05/29/2025)

This appeal grows out of the August 2, 2018 A.D. ruling of the Six Judicial Circuit Civil for Montserrado County, siting in its June Term A.D. 2018 by His Honor, Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, Sr., in which a petition for declaratory judgment was granted in favor of the appellee, Abu Kamara.

The certified records before this Court reveal that on June 7, 2018, the appellee filed a petition for declaratory judgment against the appellant, the Ministry of Commerce, by and thru Hon. Wilson K. Tarpeh, Minister of Commerce and all Deputy Ministers and Assistant Ministers of said ministry, praying the trial

Management of ArcelorMittal Liberia Limited vs. Aman S. Dokie (05/29/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

29 May, 2025

Management of ArcelorMittal Liberia Limited vs. Aman S. Dokie (05/29/2025)

The appellee, Aman S. Dokie, complained the appellant, ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML) to the Labor Commissioner in Sanniquellie, Nimba County, alleging unfair labor practice. He stated that he was employed by the appellant, AML, on August 26, 2014, as light duty driver, a Grade 4 position, and was assigned at the Mines Department with a monthly salary payment of United States Three Hundred Seventy-Six Dollars Fifty Cents (US$376.50); that the head of the Estate Department of AML, Maria da Silva, had him transferred on October 2014 from the Mines Department to the Canteen under the Estate Department in the capacity as

Novomatic Gaming Industry v Palm Spring (05/28/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Clinton Johnson / Recent Decisions

28 May, 2025

Novomatic Gaming Industry v Palm Spring (05/28/2025)

This Court is call upon to decide the matter between these two corporate entities on the basis of an agreement entered into by the parties, so as to give interpretation to the law on the arbitration clause enshrined in the lease agreement, out of which this appeal grows from a motion to dismiss appellant/plaintiff’s complaint. In deciding this matter, the constitutional mandate that we are called upon to do is to uphold the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Liberia. Article 25 of the 1986 Constitution of Liberia states that “Obligation of contract shall be guaranteed by the Republic

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