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  • Vanegas v. American Energy Services

    Publication Date: 2009-12-21
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    Date Filed: 2009-12-18
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Paul W. Green Justice
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    Case Number: 07-0520

    Argued October 15, 2008JUSTICE GREENIn this case, we are asked to decide the enforceability of an employer's alleged promise to pay five percent of the proceeds of a sale or merger of the compan

  • Texas Health Insurance Riskpool v. Sigmundik

    Publication Date: 2010-06-01
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    Date Filed: 2010-05-28
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 09-0772

    This health-insurance subrogation case turns on two rudimentary principles:1. A trial court abuses its discretion when it invokes the equitable "made whole" doctrine to circumvent a party's contrac

  • Lloyds v. Page

    Publication Date: 2010-06-14
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    Date Filed: 2010-06-11
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Harriet O'Neill Justice
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    Case Number: 08-0799

    Argued November 19, 2009Once again we are called upon to interpret the Texas Standard Homeowner's Policy-Form B, in this instance to decide whether it affords coverage for mold contamination result

  • Atmos Energy Corp. v. Railroad Commission of Texas

    Publication Date: 2011-12-14
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    Date Filed: 2011-11-18
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Justice Wainwright
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    Case Number: NO. 10-0375

    Argued September 15, 2011In 2003, the Texas Legislature amended the Gas Utility Regulatory Act (GURA) to allow gas utilities (Utilities) an opportunity to recover capital investments in Te

  • City of Houston v. Trail Enterprises, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-11-02
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    Date Filed: 2009-10-30
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 08-0413

    In this inverse condemnation case, we consider whether the court of appeals erred by rendering a money judgment against the City of Houston on mineral interest owners' regulatory takings claims. We ho

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  • Travis Central Appraisal District v. Dianeleenorman

    Publication Date: 2011-05-01
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    Date Filed: 2011-04-29
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: David M. Medina Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 09-0100

    Argued December 16, 2009JUSTICE MEDINA delivered the opinion of the Court. The Texas Anti-Retaliation Law, found in Chapter 451 of the Texas Labor Code, prohibits a person from discharg

  • Patel v. City of Everman

    Publication Date: 2012-02-01
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    Date Filed: 2012-01-27
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: NO. 09-0506

     A property owner appealed an administrative determination that his property was a nuisance, and he also asserted a takings claim. He then nonsuited the case. He later f

  • Merck & Co. Inc. v. Garza

    Publication Date: 2011-08-27
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    Date Filed: 2011-08-26
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Nathan L. Hecht Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 09-0073

    Argued January 20, 2010JUSTICE HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court.JUSTICE WILLETT and JUSTICE GUZMAN did not participate in the decision.Respondents contend that Vioxx, a presc

  • In Re Commitment of Seth Hill,

    Publication Date: 2011-03-13
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    Date Filed: 2011-03-11
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: NO. 10-0280

    A party selecting jurors for trial must be given latitude to intelligently use its peremptory challenges to seat a jury that, to the greatest extent possible, is free from bias. Here, because the t

  • Sweed v. Nye

    Publication Date: 2010-10-25
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    Date Filed: 2010-10-22
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Per curiam.
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    Case Number: 09-0465

    Five and a half months after the trial court dismissed his case, James Lee Sweed filed a notice of appeal that did not contain all the information required for a notice of restricted appeal. A mont