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  • In re J.O.A.

    Publication Date: 2009-05-04
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    Date Filed: 2009-05-01
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Justice Medina
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    Case Number: 08-0379

    Argued October 14, 2008JUSTICE WILLETT filed a concurring opinion.The Texas Family Code requires that a statement of points on which a party intends to appeal be presented to the trial court wit

  • Barr v. City of Sinton

    Publication Date: 2009-06-22
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    Date Filed: 2009-06-19
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Justice Hecht
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    Case Number: 06-0074

    Argued March 22, 2007The Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (TRFRA) provides that "a government agency may not substantially burden a person's free exercise of religion [unless it] demonstrate

  • Lawrence v. CDB Services, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-02
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    Date Filed: 2001-03-29
    Court: Tex. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Justice O'Neill delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justice Hecht, Justice Enoch, Justice Owen, Justice Abbott, and Justice Hankinson. Justice Baker filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Chief Justice Phillips
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    Case Number: No. 00-0142

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. In these consolidated cases, employees of nonsubscribers to workers' compensation insurance under the Texas Workers'

  • Vielma v. Eureka Company

    Publication Date: 2000-07-24
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    Date Filed: 2000-07-20
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: GARWOOD, WIENER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges
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    Case Number: No. 99-50181

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:Plaintiff-appellant Eva Vielma (Vielma) brought this action against her employer, defendant

  • In re Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-30
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    Date Filed: 2013-08-30
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice.
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    Case Number: 10-0933

    Argued January 8, 2013 On Petition for Writ of Mandamus

  • Sacks v. Haden

    Publication Date: 2008-10-06
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    Date Filed: 2008-09-26
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 07-0472

    The question in this case is whether a written attorney's fee agreement that specifies only hourly fee rates may be modified by evidence of an oral capping agreement. We hold that it may not because p

  • Kirkpatrick v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-19
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    Date Filed: 2009-03-18
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Johnson, J.
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    Case Number: Nos. PD-0873-07 and PD-0874-07

    OPINIONWe withdraw our December 17, 2008 opinion and substitute the following opinion.Appellant was charged with several offenses by way of three indictments. Only two of those indictments are p

  • Ex Parte Watkins

    Publication Date: 2002-04-04
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    Date Filed: 2002-04-03
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Cochran, J.
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    Case Number: NOS. 1460-01 &

    ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE SECOND COURT OF APPEALS TARRANT COUNTYCochran, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Meyers, Price, Johnson, and Holcomb, JJ., joined

  • State v. Central Expressway Sign Associates

    Publication Date: 2009-11-23
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    Date Filed: 2009-11-20
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Harriet O'Neill Justice
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    Case Number: 08-0061

    Argued January 13, 2009JUSTICE O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court.JUSTICE GUZMAN did not participate in the decision.We issued an opinion in this case on June 26, 2009. Today, we deny

  • Segundo v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-12-11
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    Date Filed: 2008-12-10
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
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    Case Number: AP-75,604

    Cochran, J., delivered the opinion of the unanimous Court on Appellant's Motion for Rehearing.OPINION ON REHEARINGIn December 2006, a jury convicted appellant of capital murder, and the trial co