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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.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.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.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."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.Fired Firm Alleges Client, Co-Counsel Sabotaged Fee
When a legal malpractice suit against Dallas securities attorney Phillip W. Offill Jr. and his former firm settled, the parties seemed happy, but that satisfaction was short-lived. Now a firm that represented plaintiff Consolidated Sports Media Group in that case has filed its own suit against CSMG, its co-counsel and others, alleging it was cut out of the deal. But the new suit raises a separate issue: whether it discloses too much information surrounding the confidential settlement in the prior case.Trending Stories
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