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  • November 21, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

    Case Summaries

    Editor's note: What follows are summaries of state and federal appellate court opinions issued from Oct. 12 to Nov. 11. The list is organized by court and practice area. Names of the cases belo

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  • February 6, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Businessman Sues Companies Over Unpublished Comments Allegedly Made by Lawyer

    Unpublished comments that an attorney allegedly made to a Forbes magazine reporter are the basis of a defamation suit that a Dallas businessman filed recently against two natural gas com

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  • February 29, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Environmental Law

    In Part 1 of this analysis (NYLJ, Feb. 22, 2008, p. 3), we described the Bali conference's "road map" f

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  • May 18, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Roundup of Tax Credits and Related Incentives for 2010

    Capital Gains Tax credits are more valuable to taxpayers than deductions because they reduce tax payments dollar for dollar; their value is not dependent on the taxpayer's t

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  • February 12, 2013 | Bloomberg

    Buyout-boom shakeout seen leaving one in four to starve

    Private equity, an investing trade plied by 4,500 firms with $3 trillion in assets, is bracing for a shakeout that's been brewing since the collapse of credit markets choked off a record leve

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  • January 18, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    V&E`s Role in Enron Debacle Probed

    With the Enron Corp. debacle, the finger-pointing reached its peak the week of Jan. 14. At least Vinson & Elkins partners -- who advised the scandal-ridden energy company and now confront numer

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  • EMI Group North America, Inc. v. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

    Publication Date: 2001-09-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-09-21
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: Rader, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 00-1508

    Appealed from: United States District Court for the District of Delaware Judge Roderick R. McKelvieAfter a jury verdict, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware denied EMI Gro

  • September 20, 2010 | The Associated Press

    Ky. man claims caffeine insanity in wife's death

    NEWPORT, Ky. AP - A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn't have k

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  • Walton v. Phillips Petroleum Company

    Publication Date: 2001-12-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2001-11-29
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 8
    Judge: Ann Crawford McCLURE, Justice
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-00-00385-CV

    OPINIONJud Walton, pro se, appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of Phillips Petroleum Company, (Phillips) and Parker & Parsley Petroleum USA, Inc., Pioneer Natural Resources Company

  • December 11, 2001 | Texas Lawyer

    A Giant Falls

    Whether Houston lawyers are successful in efforts to move Enron Corp.'s bankruptcy from New York to Houston, the record-setting filing for the company that once employed 7,000 in Houston means

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