Willie represented his client, Don Collis Houston Jr., after Houston was
indicted for possession of a controlled substance and bail jumping. After
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consulting with Willie, Houston signed a judicial confession and waiver of rights
as to both charged offenses on May 12, 2008; these documents also were signed by
Willie and the State’s attorney, Michael Mark. Houston then pleade

Ioan Ciungu (“Appellant�) appeals an order of the probate court that (1) includes certain real property parcels in the Estate of Victoria Ciungu (“Estate�), (2) directs the Estate’s personal representative to issue deeds conveying the two
parcels to Appellant and Melania Bulea (“Appellee�), the decedent’s children, as tenants in common and (3) partially vacates a prior order in

¶1 Plaintiff/Appellant Phillip Estrada (Estrada) appeals the trial court's Order granting the motion to dismiss of Defendants/Appellees Dennis Kriz, Hodges Transport, Mid-America Pallet, LLC, et al. (collectively, Defendants). Defendants moved for dismissal "based upon [Estrada's] failure to plead [fraud] with particularity, the Doctrine of Laches and the Doctrine of Equitable Estoppel." Based on

{1} Res judicata is a judicially created doctrine designed to promote efficiency and
finality by giving a litigant only one full and fair opportunity to litigate a claim and by
precluding any later claim that could have, and should have, been brought as part of the
earlier proceeding. In this case, we examine the preclusive effect of a fee proceeding in
bankruptcy court on a later

A lender who lends money used to purchase a parcel of property and who holds a junior lien on that property cannot sue the borrower personally for the loan balance if the senior lienholder who also contributed to the purchase of the property forecloses on the property but does not collect enough from the foreclosure sale to pay off the junior lienholder. (Former Code Civ. Proc., § 580b, enacted b

The deadline was looming for aspiring prime contractors to submit their bids to TexAmericas Center to build a wastewater treatment plant on its property in Bowie County. The subcontract bid of Chrietzberg Electric, Inc. (Electric) submitted at the last minute by Richard Marc Chrietzberg (Chrietzberg) to aspiring prime contractor Heritage Constructors, Inc. (Heritage), for the electrical portion of

In September 2006, respondent California Physicians’ Service, doing business as Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield), canceled appellant Bonnie DuBeck’s medical insurance policy, claiming DuBeck had made material misrepresentations in her application and concealed that she had undergone a fine needle aspiration for a lump in her breast several days before submitting the application.1 At the

Tulsa, OK - Zenergy, Inc. and Zeneco, Inc. sued Palace Exploration, Palace Operating Company, Bistate Oil Management Corporation, Bistate Oil Co., Inc., Roda Drilling Company and Roda Drilling Company, LLC:

Issue # 1. Issue: DECLARATORY JUDGMENT (DECLARE)
Filed By: ZENERGY INC
Filed Date: 12/11/2006
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: PALACE EXPLORATION COMP

Appellee, Harry A. Bouknight, Jr., sued appellant, Chris Wilmot, for fraudulent inducement relating to an employment contract and, following a bench trial, the trial court rendered judgment in Bouknight’s favor. In five issues on
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appeal, Wilmot challenges the trial court’s judgment, arguing that (1) Bouknight’s fraudulent inducement claim fails as a matter of law; (2) the evidence

Angelica Garza Duque sued Wells Fargo, N.A., seeking to enforce a consent judgment to which she is not a party and prevent foreclosure on her home. The parties each filed a traditional motion for summary judgment. The trial court granted Wells Fargo’s motion and denied Duque’s motion. Duque appeals. We
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hold that Duque lacks standing to enforce the consent judgment and affirm the judg

Plaintiff WSB Investments, LLC owns an interest
in a timeshare unit at the Residence Club at Pronghorn
Villas Condominiums and, as a consequence of that ownership,
is a member of the associated nonprofit homeowners
association, the Residence Club at Pronghorn Villas
Condominiums Owners Association (the Res Club). When
the timeshare development, and the management of it by

Plaintiff Hillel Sanowicz (Sanowicz) and defendant Ben Bacal (Bacal) are licensed real estate salespersons. Sanowicz alleges that he and Bacal agreed to share commissions earned by either of them on certain sales of real property, but that Bacal breached that agreement. Sanowicz sued both Bacal and Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. (Sotheby’s), dismissing the latter shortly after filing sui

New York, NY - The trustees of Magnesium Corp. of America sued Ira Rennert and Renco Group, Inc. on breach of fiduciary duties which resulted in the plundering of the now-bankrupt mining company to pay for personal luxuries including a 100,000 square foot private beachfront home in the Hamptons.

Court docket entries for this case starting January 1, 2015:

Date Filed # Docket Te

This interlocutory appeal involves the district court’s refusal to compel David Lynn Clark, Ashley Lyn Clark, Patsy Marie Clark, Randy Craig Coleman, Sandra Jo Coleman, William Ronald Coleman and Jodi A. Coleman (collectively referred to as the Farmers) to submit their claims against ECOM USA, Inc. and U.S. Cotton Growers Association (USCGA) to arbitration. The Farmers had contracted to deliver

In a 90 page indictment filed in 2003, appellant Joel de la Osa, along with 17 other defendants, was charged with crimes arising from an elaborate scheme spearheaded by Michael Carlow to sell adulterated prescription drugs to wholesale distributors, thus ensuring the drugs’ placement on the retail market. The State’s theory of the case was that Michael Carlow organized a conspiracy in which he

This is the third in a series of appeals filed by appellant David Lujan in this case, the general background of which was described in our introduction in the earlier opinion: “A prominent Guam attorney [Lujan] was sued in two lawsuits in Hawaii, followed by a third lawsuit in California, the last of which, were it to succeed, could have cost the attorney millions of dollars, loss of his reputat

Rex Smith and Nancy Smith appeal the trial court‘s judgment in favor of Kelly Davis and Amber Davis based on Texas Property Code Section 5.077. The Smiths raise fourteen issues on appeal. We affirm in part, reverse and render in part, and reverse and remand in part.
BACKGROUND
The Smiths own the Tall Oaks Estates Subdivision in Van Zandt County, Texas. In 2003, Rex Smith signed a contrac

National Lloyds Insurance Company (“Lloyds�) appeals the trial court’s judgment in favor of Latosha A. Lewis following a jury trial. In seven appellate issues, Lloyds challenges (1) the legal sufficiency of the evidence supporting the jury’s findings regarding causation, damages for mental anguish, breach of contract, and breach of the DTPA, and exemplary damages, (2) the trial court’s i

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a motion to compel arbitration. In five issues, appellants Villa De Leon Condominiums, LLC, Patten Sales and Marketing, LLC, and Bill Bridges, Jr. contend that the trial court erred
1See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
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by denying their motion to compel arbitration and for a stay of all other trial court proceedings pending arbitration. We r

The plaintiffs, Dean and Suzanne Ingram, appeal an order of the Superior Court (O’Neill, J.) granting summary judgment to the defendants, Michael C. Drouin and Drouin Builders, Inc. (Drouin Builders), on the plaintiffs’ claims for damages. We affirm.
The record establishes the following facts. The plaintiffs own a house in Laconia. The lot on which the house sits was purchased by Drouin Bu

A jury convicted defendant Dana Lee Russell Wilson of one count of assault with a deadly weapon (count 1; Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1))1 and three counts of making criminal threats (counts 2, 4, and 5; § 422). The jury further found that defendant personally used a deadly weapon (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)) in connection with count 2, and that he committed a secondary offense while released on bai

This matter comes to us on a judgment of dismissal of a complaint for declaratory and other relief, brought by plaintiff and appellant Linda Vista Village San Diego Homeowners Association, Inc. (Appellant). Its members are sublessees of mobilehome park lots on a real property site (the park site) that is subject to a 1979 master lease between the landowner defendant and respondent, the City of San

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court in favor of Travoy R.
Hollie in which it awarded Hollie actual and exemplary damages arising from the
unauthorized use of Hollie’s money and the misappropriation of stocks by Edith
Cherry and Carris Booker. We reverse and remand.2
Hollie is Booker’s son. Booker was not involved in Hollie’s life when he
was a child, but

Real Estate Title Closing and Title Services, also known as Patriot Title and Escrow (Patriot), appeals the district court’s grant of the motion to dismiss filed by Trio Solutions, LLC (Trio). Patriot asserts the court erred in finding claim preclusion prohibited Patriot from bringing its current claim of replevin, arguing that the replevin action could not have been brought in the first breach

This is an appeal from an order denying a special motion to strike under Code of Civil Procedure, section 425.16.1 We are asked to add our voice to the growing debate among appellate districts as to whether section 425.16 (anti-SLAPP statute) authorizes excision of allegations subject to the anti-SLAPP statute (protected activity) in a cause of action that also contains meritorious allegations not