State of Texas - First District Court
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HOUSTON – The Texas 1st Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Harris County and other municipalities in an appeal by a Houston man who alleged the county took and sold his property without providing compensation.
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HOUSTON – On Feb. 6, American National Property and Casualty Co. (ANPAC), which insures a property mortgaged by Vanderbilt Mortgage Finance Inc. and occupied by Mark Rennison, was granted a motion for emergency relief that bars Rennison from obtaining a reappraisal of his home.
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HOUSTON – The Gulf Coast Center, a public transportation company that serves Galveston and Brazoria counties, lost its appeal on Feb. 6 to cut in half the liability payout to a bus-pedestrian collision victim Daniel Curry Jr.
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HOUSTON -- In a legal battle between popular movie theater chains, a Texas appeals court has sided with iPic-Gold Class Entertainment LLC in its allegations that two of its competitors conspired to block iPic from showing popular films in two of its Texas markets, Houston and Frisco.
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HOUSTON -- An appeals court ruled Nov. 26 that jurors with a lower court properly found there was enough evidence to support actual damages in a natural resource company’s lawsuit against insurance companies for claims amid the aftermath of Hurricane Rita damages.
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HOUSTON -- A Texas appeals court has ruled Susan Morgan Farris, a prosecutor representing the Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline in its disciplinary action against Holly Gail Crampton, is immune from a complaint filed by Crampton against Farris, alleging she intentionally inflicted emotional distress and violated 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.
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The case stems from homes flooded during Tropical Storm Frances in 1998.
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HOUSTON -The Texas First District Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling by a lower court, dismissing motions to dismiss by appellants Gregory Sullo, Brian Zimmerman, Felix Michael Kubosh, and Paul Kubosh in a barratry lawsuit.
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A towing company facing a lawsuit from a man who was assaulted after his car was towed had a summary judgment in its favor reversed and remanded in the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas on Nov. 14.
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A property owner caught up in a legal battle with a homeowners’ association lost his appeal years after his claims against the association were dismissed for want of prosecution.
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On Oct. 31, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas affirmed in part and reversed in part a lower court's decision that awarded a $25 million judgment for a contract dispute between a valve company and one of its clients.
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A man’s failure to timely file an amended complaint in his lawsuit against The Mental Health & Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County, now known as The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, and one of its employees led to an appeals court affirming the case’s dismissal on Oct. 29.
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HOUSTON -- The Texas First District Court of Appeals affirmed Oct. 22 a ruling in favor of mortgage companies in a legal battle with homeowners.
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HOUSTON -- A special appearance for a New York resident in a Texas court was affirmed Oct. 22 in the First District of Texas Court of Appeals during a dispute over an investment into the prepaid-phone industry.
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HOUSTON -- A Texas appeals court refused Oct. 15 to dismiss a defamation case against two people who accused a Houston woman of being a member of a top-secret Viet Cong scheme to scam locals.
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HOUSTON — The First District Texas Court of Appeals has withdrawn its 2018 opinion and judgment and affirmed the dismissal of a Houston woman's case against the city of Houston, its mayor and director of public works and engineering that alleged the illegal collection of hundreds of millions of dollars through a drainage fee ordinance.
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HOUSTON -- The Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas sided Oct. 3 with the Fort Bend Independent School District in its dispute regarding an abandoned cemetery.
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HOUSTON -- An appeals court has affirmed a $334,922 arbitration award for a car mechanic after he sued a Houston car dealership that he had accused of insurance fraud.
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HOUSTON -- An appeals court determined Sept. 26 that foreclosure counsel Buckley Madole PC rightfully foreclosed on a home despite the former owner’s allegations that it was improper.
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A Texas law firm’s attempt to compel a couple to arbitration fell short in an appeals court, thanks to the idea that it never signed the agreement to begin with.
