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  • Agar Corporation v. Electro Circuits

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Devine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 17-0630

    Petitioner designed, manufactured and sold measuring devices for use in the oil and gas industry and brought suit against respondent and others for allegedly selling knock-off products.

  • Cho v. Kim

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Hassan
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    Case Number: 14-16-00962-CV

    Appellant Cho challenged judgment entered against him in connection with claims for breach of fiduciary duty and fraud arising from an unsuccessful real estate project wherein the parties were to acquire land along Homestead Road in Houston to build a retail strip shopping center and lease storefronts in the center to commercial tenants.

  • Sanchez v. Boone

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bourliot
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    Case Number: 14-17-00981-CV

    Inmate Boone claimed that officers came into his cell, strip searched him, and confiscated items including a handmade dog tag and wedding ring.

  • Cimarex Energy v. Anadarko Petroleum

    Publication Date: 2019-03-25
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Palafox
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    Case Number: 08-16-00353-CV

    Cimarex and Anadarko were co-tenants on property in Ward County with leases giving each of them undivided fractional mineral interests on the same property.

  • Truong v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2019-03-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
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    Case Number: 01-16-00390-CR

    Appellant Troung was charged with the second-degree felony offense of manslaughter when he drove a vehicle through a traffic barricade killing a police officer.

  • Badaiki v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2019-03-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bourliot
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    Case Number: 14-17-00450-CV

    Appellees, a towing company, towed appellant's car from the parking lot of his apartment complex.

  • In Re the Commitment of Jones

    Publication Date: 2019-03-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Law | Expert Witnesses
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Sudderth
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    Case Number: 02-18-00019-CV

    After a jury trial, Jones was ordered committed as a sexually violent predator.

  • Elliott v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Jared Thomas Hall, (Thomas, Webb & Willis LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Washington Fleenor, Ethan Merritt Makin, (Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General's Office), Athens, Kenneth W. Mauldin, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee. Daniel J. Sabol, (Luftman, Heck & Associates LLP), Columbus, Donald Timothy Huey, Blaise J. Katter, (Huey Defense Firm), Columbus, for Amicus appellant. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, David Scott McLaughlinm, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, William Aubrey Finch, (Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office), Cumming, David Holmes, (Cherokee County District Attorney's Office), Canton, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Neutral Amicus. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, David Scott McLaughlin, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee. Gilbert Alexander Crosby, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S18A1204

    Under Georgia Constitution, Motorist's Invocation of Right to Refuse Blood Alcohol Test Could Not Be Admitted Against Her at Trial

  • Kilgore Independent v. Axberg

    Publication Date: 2019-02-25
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Education Law | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Burgess
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 06-18-00016-CV

    After the legislature passed Texas law SB-1, a comprehensive school funding bill that prohibited school districts from repealing or reducing the amount of any Local Option Homestead Exemption, appellant school district repealed its LOHE.

  • Gordon v. Redelsperger

    Publication Date: 2019-02-25
    Practice Area: Damages | Evidence | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bassel
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    Case Number: 02-17-00461-CV

    In this civil case, the jury found that appellant assaulted the appellee, and awarded appellee certain categories of nonpecuniary damages and denied him others.