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  • Rodriguez v. HEB

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 04-19-00795-CV

    Appellant filed a statement of inability to pay costs in the underlying litigation and the court later signed an order declaring him a vexatious litigant, requiring him to furnish security in the underlying lawsuit, and subjecting him to a prefiling order.

  • Eastern Concrete v. ACE American

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contracts | Insurance Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Jones
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-11043

    Eastern Concrete operates rock quarries in New Jersey. It purchased a commercial umbrella insurance policy from Great American Insurance Company in Texas that specifically exempted coverage from environmental liabilities.

  • Zurich American v. Coastal Cargo of Texas

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Goodman
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    Case Number: 01-18-01107-CV

    After a take-nothing judgment rendered against it, appellant Zurich argued that the trial court erred in instructing the jury as to what it had to find to hold appellee Coastal Cargo of Texas, Inc. liable under a contractual risk-of-loss provision.

  • January 24, 2020 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

    Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Houston Cas. Co.

    Click Here for ICLC Expert Analysis Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Houston Cas. Co. 573 S.W.3d 187 Supreme Court of Texas September 17, 2018, Argued;…

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  • Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Hartry et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-21
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eileen M. Crowley, Amanda Rodman Smith, (Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP), Macon, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, Virginia A. Seitz, Tobias S. Loss-Eaton, Raymond A. Atkins, (Sidley Austin, LLP), Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Warshauer, Trent Scott Shuping, Lyle Griffin Warshauer, (Warshauer Law Group PC), Atlanta, Richard Crawford Foster, Elizabeth Lynn Bentley, (Carlock Copeland & Stair LLP), Atlanta, Frank Mitchell Lowrey, IV, Michael Rosen Baumrind, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Christopher Randall Jordan, (Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn), Brunswick, Kathryn D. Kirmayer, Daniel Saphire, (Association of American Railroads), Washington, for Amicus Appellant. Frank T. Burge, Sr., (Burge & Burge, P.C.), Birmingham, Lawrence M. Mann, (Alpers & Mann, PC), Bethesda, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S19G0008

    Federal Employers' Liability Act Claim Is Not Precluded by Regulations Pursuant to Federal Railroad Safety Act

  • Goin v. Crump

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Insurance Law | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Pedersen
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    Case Number: 05-18-00307-CV

    Appellant, MICA-employee Goin, drove a company truck while intoxicated and injured his passenger Crump causing her to become a paraplegic.

  • Guillory v. Dietrich

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Whitehill
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 05-18-00504-CV

    Dottie Dietrich had a stroke in 2008 and died in 2015. Appellants, the executor and heirs, brought suit arguing appellee, Dottie's husband, improperly took assets and he claimed they converted property belonging to him.

  • Martell v. Texas Concrete

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Christopher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 14-18-00764-CV

    In this restricted appeal of a no-answer default judgment, the return of service recited an impossible chronology in which the process server served the defendant in 2017 with a citation that the process server did not receive until 2018.

  • Borne v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Johnson
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    Case Number: 09-19-00094-CR

    A jury found appellant guilty of manufacture or possession of LSD with intent to deliver.

  • TV Azteca v. Ruiz

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Privacy
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Longoria
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 13-18-00287-CV

    Appellee, a prominent Mexican recording artist, was arrested and jailed in Brazil and Mexico on sex-trafficking charges but the charges were ultimately dismissed.