State Of Texas 14th Court Of Appeals
Recent News About State Of Texas 14th Court Of Appeals
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Appellate court denies motion to dismiss suit against former Percheron Holdings employee in contract dispute
HOUSTON – On Nov. 14, the 14th Court of Appeals determined an employer’s lawsuit is exempt from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and affirmed a lower court’s ruling that denied an employee’s motion to dismiss the suit against him. -
Doctor, First Street Surgical Center lose negligence appeal
HOUSTON -- An appeals court has turned down a surgical center’s appeal that a patient suing it for health care liability did not provide the proper expert in the lower court and has dismissed the case. -
CenterPoint Energy wins case in electrocution of branch cutter
HOUSTON -- A man electrocuted while handling a low-hanging limb could not convince the Texas 14th Court of Appeals to reverse a summary judgment against him on Oct. 29. -
Appeals court rules Harris County protected by governmental immunity
HOUSTON -- The Texas 14th Court of Appeals has ruled that a Texas man failed to prove he has grounds to sue a Texas governmental entity and related parties and has dismissed the case. -
Employee who caught on fire during at-work accident loses appeal
HOUSTON -- The Texas 14th Court of Appeals ruled that a former Austin Budget Signs Inc. employee could not prove that two individuals he sued were not separate from ABS, affirming a summary judgment for the defendants. -
Appeals court reverses decision in breach of contract case against Storage Trust Properties
HOUSTON -- A state appeals court on Sept. 17 reversed and remanded back to the trial court a breach of contract case. The lawsuit involved the disposal of George Hilburn’s personal property from storage units owned and operated by Storage Trust Properties, whom the trial court ultimately ruled in favor of. -
Court: Non-resident defendants lack jurisdiction in international agreement dispute
HOUSTON -- A holdings company took issue with a lower court sustaining objections in its lawsuit, but a three-judge panel for the Texas 14th Court of Appeals sided with the lower court and affirmed sustaining the objection Aug. 1. -
Appeals court rules against payroll company that sought unemployment tax refund
HOUSTON -- Justice Meagan Hassan of the 14th Court of Appeals affirmed July 30 a lower court’s ruling to deny an unemployment tax refund. -
Appeals court backs Lone Star Road Construction's summary judgment in highway crash case
HOUSTON -- After ruling the summary judgment evidence doesn’t present a genuine fact issue on causation, the Texas 14th Court of Appeals affirmed July 18 a judgment for a construction company being sued after a man suffered an injury in a road accident. -
Justices find murder suspect was properly denied appointed counsel in civil suit
HOUSTON -- Despite a murder suspect's appeal and accusations that a lower court failed to appoint him adequate counsel, the Texas 14th Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s ruling July 18. -
Appeals court: Convicted Arizona sex offender must register in Texas
HOUSTON -- A three-judge panel with the Texas 14th Court of Appeals determined July 11 that a person must register as a sex offender in Texas if they were convicted of sexual abuse via Arizona law. -
Appeals court irons out arbitration dispute involving Texas Leaguer Brewing
HOUSTON -- The Texas 14th Court of Appeals weighed in July 9 on an arbitration dispute in a loan agreement gone wrong. -
Court sides with Houston in legal battle with firefighters
HOUSTON -- The Texas 14th Court of Appeals affirmed June 20 the city of Houston’s and a number of city officials’ jurisdictional plea in the Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund’s lawsuit that alleged changes to the fund were unconstitutional. -
Court rules against tenant in defamation suit with former landlord
HOUSTON -- A three-judge panel in the Texas 14th Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for an apartment complex June 20 following one of its evicted tenants’ lawsuit for defamation. -
Appeals court reverses take-nothing judgment awarded to physician
HOUSTON – The Texas First Court of Appeals issued an opinion June 6 overturning a lower court’s judgment in favor of a family practice physician who was sued for breaching a lease. -
Appeals court backs Florida auto dealership
HOUSTON – An appeals court has sided with a Florida auto dealership in its appeal of a Harris County trial court’s denial of a special appearance. -
Denied: Houston Chronicle, KHOU-TV appeal seeking to vacate ruling on anti-SLAPP motions
HOUSTON – A Texas appellate court recently denied an appeal brought by Hearst Newspapers (Houston Chronicle) and KHOU-TV, which sought to vacate a ruling on their anti-SLAPP motions. -
Appeals court: Physical contact required to trigger uninsured coverage in vehicle crash
HOUSTON (SE Texas Record) — A man injured in in a 2016 vehicular accident in Waller County after an unidentified vehicle that did not contact his own car but caused him to collide with another automobile is not entitled to uninsured motorist benefits, a state appeals court recently ruled. -
Texas appeal court rules Equistar, ClydeUnion both 'take nothing' in pumps dispute
HOUSTON (SE Texas Record) — Neither a suburban Houston fuels producer nor a United Kingdom-based engineering firm should get anything in a faulty pump dispute in which a Harris County court had awarded the latter company more than $150,000, a state appeals court has ruled. -
It’s not raining cats and dogs, it’s raining rats!
Rats are disgusting animals. If you come upon one unexpectedly, it’s likely to startle or even frighten you. If, on the other hand, you’re walking around a junkyard or a dump, there’s a good chance you’ll come upon a rat at some point or other and you shouldn’t be surprised about it.