• Treto v. Treto

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Benavides
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    Case Number: 13-18-00219-CV

    Appellant, Jennifer Treto, challenged the part of a final divorce decree from Sandra Treto that established Jennifer as a parental conservator and the order for her to pay child support.

  • Spielbauer v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Pirtle
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    Case Number: 07-18-00028-CR

    Appellant Spielbauer was charged with capital murder in the death of his former wife.

  • Shouldice v. Hamersveld

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kreger
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    Case Number: 09-18-00355-CV

    Mary Thompson amended a trust agreement and executed a new will with a will contest clause in 2009.

  • 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
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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.

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    Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Houston Cas. Co.

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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
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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.