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September 06, 2005 |

Fifth Circuit Forced to Find New Digs

After Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans, officials at the appeals court were looking for a place to relocate.
6 minute read
July 28, 2003 |

Newsmakers

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November 04, 2002 |

High Court Reinstates Appeal in Suit Against Lawyer, Client

Documents that a meat packer alleges are trade secrets taken from its plant are at the center of an appeal once again before the Texas Supreme Court. A key issue in the case is whether an attorney was protected by privilege when he gave documents to another firm that had subpoenaed his client to produce the documents.
9 minute read
September 07, 2005 |

Kicked Out of the Big Easy by Katrina, the 5th Circuit Heads to Houston

With New Orleans' electricity expected to be out for a month or more, appeals court judges decided Friday to relocate to the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse in Houston for at least two months, said Carolyn Dineen King, chief judge of the 5th Circuit. "And then if everything comes together as we hope it will, we will move to Baton Rouge ... for an indefinite period," she said. The determining factor in a return to New Orleans: the condition of the courthouse building.
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March 21, 2005 |

Johnson Appointment Makes It A Full House at Supreme Court

After months of delay, Gov. Rick Perry selected 7th Court of Appeals Chief Justice Phil Johnson, a conservative who says he interprets laws as the Texas Legislature writes them, to fill a seat on the state Supreme Court that has been vacant since September 2004.
4 minute read
May 04, 2004 |

Texas High Court Upholds Ultimate Sanction in Legal Malpractice Suit

It takes an extraordinary case for the Texas Supreme Court to uphold what is known as a death penalty sanction -- striking a party's pleading. Last month, the court found the first such case in recent memory: a Houston legal malpractice suit in which the defendant lawyer accused the plaintiff of, among other things, destroying evidence -- conduct a Supreme Court justice deemed "egregious."
5 minute read
November 07, 2002 |

Texas High Court Reinstates Appeal in Suit Against Lawyer, Client

Documents that meat packer IBP alleges are trade secrets taken from its plant are at the center of an appeal once again before the Texas Supreme Court. A key issue is whether an attorney was protected by privilege when he gave documents to another firm that had subpoenaed his client to produce the documents. Also at issue is whether attorney fees from prior litigation are recoverable as damages under an equitable exception.
9 minute read
March 07, 2005 |

Newsmakers

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August 01, 2003 |

Retractable v. Becton, Dickinson et al.

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October 01, 2009 |

Deals & Suits

Enterprise Products/Teppco; EMC/Data Domain; Validus/IPC; Centocor et al. v. Abbott Labs; Starr International v. AIG; Huntsman v. Credit Suisse et al.; Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell et al.
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