• Ward v. ACS State and Local Solutions, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-11-16
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    Date Filed: 2010-11-16
    Court: Tx. App. Dist. 5
    Judge: Martin Richter Justice
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    Case Number: 05-09-00557-CV

    AFFIRMOPINIONBefore Justices Morris, Richter, and Lang-Miers.In this appeal from a no-evidence and traditional summary judgment, Amanda Ward contends the trial court erred in dismissing he

  • March 26, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Is Counsel Immune From Sanctions Based on Belief in Client?

    In prior attorney liability columns, this author has attempted to distinguish between counsel and client's misconduct with regard to sanctions, Dragonetti and malpractice contentions. Notwith

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  • October 13, 2006 | The Recorder

    Plessy With a Twist

    Here's a 2006 twist on Plessy v. Ferguson: "separate but we hope equal." It appears in Justice Joanne Parrilli's concurring opinion in the Marriage Cases, where a divided panel of San F

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  • Span Enterprises v. Wood

    Publication Date: 2008-12-05
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-04
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 1
    Judge: Elsa Alcala Justice
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    Case Number: 01-07-00364-CV

    OPINIONAppellants, Span Enterprises and Praful Amin, M.D., appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee, Ivan Wood. Span and Amin filed suit against Wood asserting causes of action for breach of fid

  • May 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Motherless Invention

    Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant on March 21 to decide a key patent law case in a way that would, as one justice put it, establish "monopolies in this country beyond belief" over natu

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  • July 23, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

    U.S. Judge Clears Law Firm Accused Of Hacking Opponents' Web Archives

    A law firm did not violate copyright and computer anti-hacking laws when it used a Web archive search tool to recover old Web pages of its client's adversary, says a federal judge.Alth

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  • United States v. Mohr

    Publication Date: 2009-01-08
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    Date Filed: 2009-01-06
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Emilio M. Garza, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 08-60075

    Before GARWOOD, GARZA, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.Defendant-appellant William Fredrick Mohr ("Mohr") appeals the sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

  • October 18, 2013 | The Recorder

    Santa Clara Law Makes High Tech Mark

    A throng of Silicon Valley law firm partners, in-house lawyers and judges crowded into a conference room in the Benson Center at Santa Clara University on a sunny May morning. On the

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  • July 24, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Disney Should Let Disabled Woman Use Segway, Court Rules

    The Walt Disney Co. should have allowed a disabled woman to use a Segway scooter to get around in Disneyland, even though she acknowledged in three earlier lawsuits that a wheelchair could ac

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  • April 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Pole Dancing Is Not Art, Tax Appeals Panel Rules

    ALBANY - The gyrations of a pole dancer may be difficult to execute, but that does not make them art, a state tax appeals board has concluded in rejecting an administrative law judge's finding that

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