• Aubris Resources LP v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-04-27
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    Date Filed: 2009-04-23
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: E. Grady Jolly, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 07-41272

    Published opinionBefore JOLLY, DAVIS, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.In this appeal we decide what effect a general indemnity provision in an oilfield services agreement has on the scope of addition

  • El Dorado Land Company L.P. v. City of McKinney

    Publication Date: 2013-04-03
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    Date Filed: 2013-03-29
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: John P. Devine Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 11-0834

    Argued January 9, 2013JUSTICE DEVINE delivered the opinion of the Court.The issue in this inverse condemnation lawsuit is whether a reversionary interest, consisting of the gran

  • December 20, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Pulling Back? Courts, Preemption and Products Liability Claims

    Four federal district courts in the Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh circuits and at least two prominent state courts recently held that state law aviation products liability claims were not preemp

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  • August 14, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    ABN AMRO Mortgage Group v. TCB Farm and Ranch Land Investments

    Click here for the full text of this decisionFACTS: ABN AMRO Mortgage Group (ABN) appeals from a s

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  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-05-08
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    Date Filed: 2008-05-07
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Price, J.
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    Case Number: PD-0468-07

    OPINIONIt is a defense to the offense of simple assault that the victim effectively consented to the offender's assaultive conduct or that the offender reasonably believed that the victim consented

  • Daniel v. Cockrell

    Publication Date: 2002-02-26
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    Date Filed: 2002-02-25
    Court: 5th Cir.
    Judge: Garwood, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 00-20624

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of TexasPetitioner-appellant Ronald Nelson Daniel appeals the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief as to his Texas

  • December 5, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Drug Ads: Has the Picture Changed?

    In Perez v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., 161 N.J. 1 (1999), the New Jersey Supreme Court held that a cause of action could exist against a pharmaceutical manufacturer for failure to warn c

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  • November 27, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Parker v. JPMorgan Chase Bank

    Civil LitigationNo. 01-02-00073-CV, 11/4/2002.FACTS: The appellant, Carolyn W. Parker, appeals the trial court's decision to grant a motion for summary jud

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  • Gerardo Lujan v. the State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2011-05-18
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    Date Filed: 2011-01-12
    Court: Tex. Crim. App.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: PD-0303-10

    Johnson, J., filed a concurring opinion. Meyers, J., filed a dissenting opinion.The court of appeals held that the checkpoint where drugs were discovered in Appellant's vehicle was illegal be

  • May 10, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    The Past, Present and Future of Mold Litigation

    Perhaps it can be traced to the $32 million Ballard verdict1 in Texas in 2001 and all of the media attention that followed. Whatever the cause, beginning in the

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