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City of Harlingen, Texas v. Charles E. Lee
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By five issues, appellant, the City of Harlingen, appeals from the denial of its plea to the jurisdiction in a suit brought by appellee, Charles Lee. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a)(7) (West Supp. 2011). We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I. BACKGROUND
Appellant is a home-rule municipality. See TEX. LOC. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 9.001 (West 2008). In his live petiti... More... $0 (02-28-2013 - TX)
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Deborah Ann Leftwich v. The Honorable Stephen Alcorn, Judge of the District Court of Oklahoma County
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¶1 The Petitioner has filed an application for original jurisdiction, a petition for writ of prohibition, and in the alternative a petition for writ of mandamus in Case No. CF-2010-8067 in the District Court of Oklahoma County.
¶2 This Court previously denied Petitioner's petition for writ of prohibition or mandamus based on the District Court's decision denying Petitioner's motions to di... More... $0 (10-13-2011 - OK)
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Karen Hall v. City of Bryan, Texas
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The City of Bryan annexed part of Karen Hall’s property in 1999. For the second time, she sued the City for disannexation. See TEX. LOC. GOV'T CODE ANN. § 43.141(b) (West 2008). Because the trial court did not err in failing to file findings of fact and conclusions of law or in granting the City’s plea to the jurisdiction, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.
BACKGROUND
On Ju... More... $0 (10-05-2011 - TX)
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City of North Richland Hills v. Home Town Urban Partners, Ltd.
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In these consolidated interlocutory appeals, the City of North Richland Hills (the City) challenges the trial courts’ respective denials of the City’s partial pleas to the jurisdiction in the lawsuits filed against it by Appellees Hometown Urban Partners, Ltd. (Urban Partners), Arcadia Land Partners 25, Ltd., and Arcadia Holdings (collectively, Arcadia).[1] The City contends that governmental... More... $0 (04-28-2011 - TX)
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Round Rock Life Connection Church, Inc. v. The City of Round Rock, Texas
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Round Rock Life Connection Church, Inc., Teddy J. Straub, Orlena Mehrabian, Hossain Mehrabian, Luciano Rivera, Tim Hubble, Judy Hubble, and Mary Jo Greenough (collectively, “the Landowners”) sought both a temporary injunction enjoining the City of Round Rock (“Round Rock”) from annexing their properties and a judgment declaring void ordinances adopted by Round Rock that annexed their prop... More... $0 (02-18-2011 - tx)
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City of North Richland Hills v. Home Town Urban Partners, Ltd.
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In these consolidated interlocutory appeals, the City of North Richland Hills (the City) challenges the trial courts’ respective denials of the City’s partial pleas to the jurisdiction in the lawsuits filed against it by Appellees Hometown Urban Partners, Ltd. (Urban Partners), Arcadia Land Partners 25, Ltd., and Arcadia Holdings (collectively, Arcadia).[1] The City contends that governmental... More... $0 (02-17-2011 - TX)
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Robert Ward v. Valerie Ward
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¶1 Petitioner, Robert Ward (Father), appeals the trial court's order finding him in contempt of court for failure to pay child support. Having recast this appeal as an application for a writ of prohibition, we deny same.
BACKGROUND
¶2 In 1995, Father and Respondent, Valerie Ward (Mother), were divorced. It is not disputed that the divorce decree awarded Mother custody of the co... More... $0 (02-11-2010 - OK)
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The State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Board of Regents of the Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanical Colleges v. McClockey Brothers
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¶1 This cause concerns an eminent domain proceeding brought by the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural Colleges (appellee/Regents), against the McCloskey Brothers, Inc. (appellant/the landowner/McCloskey Brothers). The dispositive issues presented on certiorari1 are whether: 1) the Court is precluded from addressing a standing issue because the landowner did not appeal an interlocutory... More... $0 (12-08-2009 - OK)
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Henry Cook v. Randolph County, et al.
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As Justice Holmes once remarked, “pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do some things that they want to do.” Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 261 U.S. 525, 568, 43 S. Ct. 394, 405 (1923) (Holmes, J., dissenting). In this case the Randolph County Board of Registrars wanted to change the voting registration of Henry Cook, a member of the county’s board of education, which also wou... More... $0 (07-07-2009 - GA)
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State of Kansas, ex rel. Paul J. Morrison v. The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
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During the 2007 Kansas legislative session, the legislature passed and the governor signed House Substitute for Senate Bill No. 244 (H. Sub. S.B. 244), which substantially amended K.S.A. 21-4015 (Furse 1995), formerly known as the Kansas Funeral Picketing Act, and now, as amended, known as the Kansas Funeral Privacy Act, K.S.A. 21-4015. L. 2007, ch. 111, secs. 1-6. Although the legislature repeale... More... $0 (03-14-2008 - KS)
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David Lee Carey and Tanya Maria Carey v. Lincoln Loan Company
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Is the Court of Appeals lawfully constituted? Defendant Lincoln Loan Co. argues that it is not, because -- in defendant's view -- the provision of the Oregon Constitution that purports to authorize the legislature to establish courts was improperly adopted in 1910. It therefore follows -- again, in defendant's view -- that, when the legislature created the Court of Appeals by statute in 1969, i... More... $0 (04-24-2007 - OR)
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Christopher Benne v. ABB Power T&D Co. and Gallagher Bassett Services.
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ABB Power Tool & Dye Company appeals the award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission in favor of Christopher Benne. ABB contends the Commission erred in refusing to allow ABB to make a record on the issue of whether John Madigan, a temporary commissioner, was entitled to participate in the case. We affirm the award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission.
Statemen... More... $42248 (06-17-2003 - MO)
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City of Roanoke v. Town of Westlake
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The City of Roanoke ("Roanoke") appeals from a summary judgment in favor of the Town of Westlake ("Westlake") declaring annexation of certain tracts of land by Westlake to be valid. Roanoke raises three issues, contending the trial court erred by declaring, in granting Westlake's summary judgment, that Westlake's annexations in 1985 and 1995 were valid and that a Rule 11 settlement agreement pu... More... $0 (05-23-2003 - TX)
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The People of The State of Illinois v. The City of Chicago
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Plaintiffs, Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney of Du Page County, on behalf of the People of the State of Illinois, the County of Du Page, the Village of Bensenville, the City of Elmhurst, and the City of Wood Dale, filed a two-count amended complaint seeking (1) a declaration that the City of Chicago was constructing certain improvements at O'Hare International Airport in violation of the Illino... More... $0 (10-18-2002 - IL)
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Gafcon, Inc. v. Ponsor & Associates, et al.
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Gafcon, Inc. (Gafcon) sued its liability insurer Travelers Property Casualty
Corporation (Travelers), Travelers' in-house law firm Ponsor & Associates, and Ponsor
lawyer Roger von Kaesborg (collectively Ponsor) seeking, among other relief, a judicial
declaration that (1) Travelers' use of employee attorneys to defend its insureds constitutes
the unauthorized practice of law; (2) insurance comp... More... $0 (06-07-2002 - CA)
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The People ex rel. Joseph E. Birkett, et al. v. The City of Chicago
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Plaintiffs, the People of the State of Illinois, Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney of Du Page County, County of Du Page, the Village of Bensenville, the City of Elmhurst, and the City of Wood Dale, appeal the trial court's granting of the motion for summary judgment of defendant, the City of Chicago (the City), and the court's denial of plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment and injunct... More... $0 (04-24-2002 - IL)
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City of Tucson v. U.S. West Communications, Inc.
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Tucson is a municipal corporation and a political subdivision
of Arizona. Qwest is a public service corporation registered
in Colorado with its principal place of business in
Colorado. Qwest provides telecommunication services in Arizona,
specifically in Tucson, and has done so for over 100
years. To provide these services, Qwest installed, and currently
operates and maintains, equipment and... More... $0 (03-26-2002 - AZ)
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Helen Foster, et al. v. Hossein Sakhai, M.D.
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Appellant Helen Foster (sometimes also referred to as "plaintiff" in the course of this opinion) and her late husband filed a medical malpractice suit against appellee Dr. Hossein Sakhai for personal injuries the Fosters alleged as a result of brain surgery performed by Dr. Sakhai upon Mr. Foster. Mr. Foster died before the case could come to trial, but at the trial, the jury awarded Mrs. Foster a... More... $800000 (12-12-2001 - WV)
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Stephen C. Nicolopulos v. City of Lawndale, et al.
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Plaintiff and appellant Stephen Craig Nicolopulos appeals from a judgment of
dismissal following the sustaining of a demurrer without leave to amend to his first
amended complaint against the City of Lawndale, the Lawndale City Council, and
individual members of the Lawndale City Council.
Appellant was the elected city clerk of Lawndale. In February 2000, the City
Council by resolution dec... More... $0 (08-28-2001 - CA)
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Ethics Com'n of State of Okl. v. Cullison
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¶1 In September of 1990 the people of Oklahoma voted to adopt a new Article to the State Constitution by way of Initiative Petition No. 341 and State Question No. 627. Thus Article 29 came into existence as a framework for a fresh scheme of ethical standards to be administered by a constitutionally created Ethics Commission. The Ethics Commission of the State of Oklahoma petitions this Court to a... More... $0 (12-31-1993 - OK)
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Ethics Commission of the State of Oklahoma v. Robert V. Cullison
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¶1 In September of 1990 the people of Oklahoma voted to adopt a new Article to the State Constitution by way of Initiative Petition No. 341 and State Question No. 627. Thus Article 29 came into existence as a framework for a fresh scheme of ethical standards to be administered by a constitutionally created Ethics Commission. The Ethics Commission of the State of Oklahoma petitions this Court to a... More... $0 (12-31-1993 - OK)
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THE PEOPLE ex rel. EDWARD V. HANRAHAN, State's Attorney v. EMIL CALIENDO et al.
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The appeal here by the plaintiff, the State's Attorney of Cook County, followed the dismissal by the circuit court of Cook County of a quo warranto action which had been brought by the State's Attorney in challenge to the constitutionality of the Urban Transportation District Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 111-2/3, pars. 501 through 518) and the creation under the Act of the Chicago Urban Transpo... More... $0 (01-14-1972 - IL)
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State of Missouri v. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
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Quo warranto against the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and its trustees on the ground that it is operating under an invalid and unconstitutional plan. There is no dispute about the facts. The issue to be decided is whether the plan under which the District is organized and operating attempts to confer [365 Mo. 6] powers in excess of the constitutional authority under which the District was... More... $0 (02-14-1955 - MO)
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