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Texas SC overturns $8M Vioxx verdict
8/30/2011 10:12 AM By Jessica M. Karmasek

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AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday overturned a huge jury award in favor of a Texas man who died after briefly taking Vioxx, an arthritis drug Merck & Co. eventually pulled from the market.

High court wants case over wetlands damage reconsidered
10/25/2011 9:33 AM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - After Palestine surgeon Lee Roy Mathis died, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that appellate judges in Tyler improperly rejected a jury verdict against him on a claim that a neighbor damaged wetlands on his 2-square-mile ranch.

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Cases determined by merits, not procedural defaults, Texas justices rule
10/24/2011 2:37 PM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Texas Supreme Court Justices pulled accountant Lynda Marino out of a trap she stepped into when she tried to defend herself in a civil suit without a lawyer.

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Texas SC tackles definition of 'prevailing party'
9/5/2011 6:47 PM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Contracts that provide legal fees for prevailing parties don't necessarily apply when plaintiffs nonsuit without prejudice, six Supreme Court Justices decided on Aug. 26.

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Car owner not liable for borrower's drunk driving crash, Texas SC rules
9/5/2011 6:32 PM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Tugboat owners whose workers borrowed each other's cars share no liability for a fatal crash one of them caused, the Supreme Court of Texas decided on Aug. 26.

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The Texas Supreme Court reversed the common carrier status of the Denbury Green Pipeline on Aug. 26.

Texas Supreme Court reverses decisions two state agency permits; Removes Denbury Green Pipeline common carrier status
8/30/2011 9:24 AM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Appellate judges in Beaumont invested too much power in state agency permits in two cases the Supreme Court of Texas decided on Aug. 26.

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Texas 'stripper tax' is constitutional, high court rules
8/29/2011 6:30 PM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - The $5 cover charge at Texas nude bars is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 26.

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Texas Supreme Court allows dad to regain custody of son
8/23/2011 8:19 AM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Ron LaFond, a father who lost parental privileges in a Jefferson County divorce 10 years ago, regained custody of a teenage son with Texas Supreme Court approval.

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Insurer not liable for TB exposure on tour bus, Texas high court rules
8/6/2011 4:37 PM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Catching tuberculosis from a bus driver doesn't qualify as an accident under the bus company's insurance policy, the Supreme Court of Texas decided.

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High court abates rehearing of Open Beaches case
8/2/2011 9:24 AM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - As the Supreme Court of Texas struggled for a second time to draw a line between private property and public beach on Galveston Island, money from Washington relieved them of the decision.

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Case over dead woman's organs goes to state Supreme Court
7/26/2011 10:00 AM By Steve Korris
AUSTIN - Grieving daughter Debra Alvarez didn't force court decisions on her property rights in her deceased mother's tissues or the kind of injury she suffered when a dealer sold them, but an insurance dispute forces those decisions on the Supreme Court of Texas.

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