On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Water seeps up through dialysis clinic’s floor. Clinic’s repair attempts stop helping. Clinic terminates lease early, moves, and leaves some rent unpaid. Clinic sues the landlord for breach of contract, breach of the implied warranty of suitability for use...
On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | Apr 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Governor Greg Abbott appointed Houston Fourteenth Court of Appeals Justice Brett Busby in February 2019, and Busby was confirmed by the Texas Senate in March 2019. He had about six years of experience on the Houston bench. He is presently the Chair of the State Bar of...
On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | Mar 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Federal courts of appeals have jurisdiction of final U.S. district court judgments except where a decision may be directly reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States. SCOTUS said, in Hall v. Hall, No. 16-1150, Mar. 27, 2018, which I have cleaned up: “A...
On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | Feb 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Greg Perkes who had been on Texas’s Thirteenth Court of Appeals from 2011 to 2016 was appointed Monday to fill the seat of Dori Contreras who had been raised from there by her election as Chief Justice. Justice Perkes will sit with the Edinburg panel- a red spot...
On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | Jan 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
In Texas state appellate law, you calculate deadlines by counting the first day after a triggering event happens up until the last day of a period that is not a holiday, a Saturday or a Sunday. For example, the deadline to file a notice of appeal of a final criminal...
On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | Jan 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in a unanimous opinion written by Judge Barbara Hervey held that evidence suppression is not a remedy for a violation of the federal Stored Communications Act or Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Art. 18.21 notwithstanding Texas Code...
On behalf of Bob Mabry Attorney at Law PLLC | Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Federal courts of appeals have jurisdiction of final U.S. district court judgments except where a decision may be directly reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States. SCOTUS said, in Hall v. Hall, No. 16-1150, Mar. 27, 2018, which I have cleaned up: “A...
