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• Appeals court erases verdict, remands case over attorney's fees back to trial court

  By David Yates | Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 @ 6:26am

  A year ago, The Southeast Texas Record reported that defense attorney Roger McCabe, who represents Port Neches-Groves Independent School District in a suit filed by Pyramid Constructors Inc., promised to appeal after losing a trial over attorney's fees.

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• Case over attorney's fees in appeals court � again

  By David Yates | Monday, Dec 8, 2008 @ 7:38am

  On Thursday, Dec. 11, justices on the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on a familiar case � a case that after eight years of litigation, countersuits and appeals ended up as a battle over attorney's fees.

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• Trial over attorney's fees ends with $460K award

  By David Yates | Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 @ 9:19am

  Following eight years of litigation, countersuits and appeals, jurors finally heard the breach of contract case of Pyramid Constructors Inc. vs. the Port Neches-Groves Independent School District. But after all that time the lawsuit spent floundering in Texas court systems, the trial ended up as a battle over attorney's fees.

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