Ken Slavin downplays the difficulty of the victory he just won. The appellate lawyer, a partner in El Paso’s Kemp Smith, says, “Many lawyers could have figured it out, if they had spent the time.”

Slavin’s modesty obscures the work he did marshalling arguments that led the 8th Court of Appeals in El Paso on Aug. 31 to reverse a trial court order that had granted summary judgment against the state of Texas. The trial court’s decision came in a case about who owns valuable building materials on four parcels of what once were public school lands.

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