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  • SCI Texas v. Nelson

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Damages | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hecht
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    Case Number: 16-0297

    Following her death, decedents sisters met with a funeral home owned by petitioner; the sisters told the funeral home that decedent also had an adult son, respondent, whom no one had current contact information to provide.

  • Belle v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Donovan
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    Case Number: 14-16-00304-CR

    After a trial at which appellant represented himself pro se, a jury found him guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and sentenced him to 28 years in prison.

  • Young v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Campbell
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    Case Number: 07-16-00083-CR

    Appellant appealed his conviction by jury of the felony offense of aggravated kidnapping and the resulting sentence of forty years of imprisonment.

  • Webb v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Moseley
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    Case Number: 06-17-00066-CR

    Appellant was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child (his step-granddaughter) and indecency with the same child by sexual conduct; the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment.

  • Walker v. State Of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Burgess
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    Case Number: 06-17-00092-CR

    After a jury found appellant guilty of murder, the trial court sentenced her to thirty years confinement in prison.

  • In Re Andrew Silver

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Devine
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    Case Number: 16-0682

    Silver sued Tabletop Media, LLC, alleging that it failed to pay Silver for his patent.

  • USA v. Herrold

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Higginbotham
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    Case Number: 14-11317

    Because of three past convictions, including two for burglary, Herrolds sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon was enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

  • King v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge King
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    Case Number: 16-70018

    King was convicted and sentenced to death by a Texas jury for the capital murder of James Byrd.

  • Jefferson v. Chevron Phillips

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 16-1018

    Chevron applied for turnover assistance, seeking to collect on a $1 million debt. Before the turnover hearing, ADJT sought to intervene, arguing that it owned 50% of the funds.

  • In The Interest Of C J N S

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 16-0909

    Karen Narciso and Kenneth Spear were divorced in 1998. One of their children (CJN-S) has continuing medical problems, which allegedly began before she turned 18. After she turned 18, CJN-S began living apart from her parents.