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October 30, 2014
Dallas County's Worst Judge Has Dragged a Simple Eviction Case on for Five Years
Five years ago this month, a Dallas County justice of the peace signed an order evicting Clifford Holland from the $1.2 million home he was renting on Caruth Boulevard, a block outside of University Park. Aside from the eye-popping $6,000-per-month rent, the case was a routine tenant-landlord disput ... More >>
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April 9, 2014
Dallas Man Won't Get to Keep That $500K He Won Suing His Softball Buddy After All
Orville Paul Dunagan and Bryan Coleman are friends. Scratch that. They were friends, neighbors and longtime softball buddies and teammates in a slow-pitch league in East Dallas. The moment their bond began to dissolve, on June 21, 2005, is now immortalized in Dallas County court records. That's the ... More >>
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May 10, 2013
No Oral Arguments in Case that May Have Driven Eric Williams to Kill in Kaufman County
It was always one of the pieces in Eric Williams' story that didn't quite fit a narrative with an otherwise tidy motive for murder. The disgraced former justice of the peace had appealed his April 2012 conviction on burglary charges, prosecuted vigorously by slain Kaufman County District Attorney Mi ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Judge Phyllis Lister Brown Still Punching In, Despite Court's Refusal to Preserve Her Job
Judge Phyllis Lister Brown will not stop showing up at work -- not even after a judge yesterday denied her request that the Fifth Court of Appeals prevent the city from removing her from the bench as she runs for district judge. Today, her lawyer, Ray Guy, filed a motion of reconsideration. Her requ ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
How Much Does Perot Dislike Cuban? Enough to Try to Take Away Mavs, Stars Fans' Parking.
It's become very clear in recent days that Ross Perot Jr. isn't about to walk away from his feud with Mark Cuban. On December 2, his attorneys notified the Fifth Court of Appeals that he intends to fight Judge Craig Smith's order tossing that suit in which Perot accuses Cuban of mismanaging the D ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Brett Shipp Visits the Houston HQ of Company That Got DISD's $40-Mil Tech Contract. Um ...
On August we told you that the Dallas Independent School District had been hit with a $40-million breach of contract lawsuit filed by a technology vendor with whom the trustees had agreed to do business till, out of nowhere, district officials just decided to go with someone else. In May trustees aw ... More >>
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July 9, 2011
Rais Bhuiyan Goes International In His Attempt to Save the Life of Man Who Tried to Kill Him
Rais BhuiyanTwice we've written about Rais Bhuiyan, who, on September 21, 2001, was working behind the counter of a Pleasant Grove Texaco station when a man with a shotgun entered the store and shot him in the face. Bhuiyan, who was 27 at the time, thought he was being robbed. He wasn't: Mark Str ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Rais Bhuiyan Will Continue Fight to Save Attacker's Life After Supreme Court Passes
Rais Bhuiyan. Photo by Alex Scott On Monday Mark Stroman, the white supremacist who shot three men he believed were of Middle Eastern descent, killing two, lost another appeal to prevent his execution, which is scheduled for July 20 in Huntsville. The Supreme Court declined, without comment, to r ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Liberty Institute's Still Working Hard to Keep Gay Dallas Couple From Getting a Divorce
Attorney Pete Schulte and the petitioner still known as J.B. on The Daily Show last yearSurely you recall the case of J.B. and H.B., two Dallas men who went to Massachusetts to marry in 2006, only to separate two years later and then try to get a divorce. In October 2009, Judge Tena Callahan gav ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Author Engaged in Legal Tussle With HP Developer Tired of Being SLAPP'd Around
Carla Main testifying down in Austin yesterdayWe've written a few times in recent years about author Carla Main, who remains locked in a legal tussle with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall over Main's '07 book Bulldozed: "Kelo," Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which chron ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
One Dallas Biker Takes His Fight Against City's Helmet Law to Federal Court
Paul Woodfield had already spent years fighting Dallas's bike helmet law in county court, when the city decided to drop the original ticket he'd been given on a bare-domed ride around White Rock Lake back in 2007. With no ticket to fight, the Fifth Court of Appeals dismissed his three-year-old la ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
As Judges Heard Arguments For and Against Same-Sex Divorce, the World's Tiniest Protest Took Place Outside
Patrick MichelsMichael Robinson, left, and David Bowling were the sole protesters at today's same-sex divorce hearing downtown.So much for the media circus outside today's highly anticipated (judging by the advance news coverage, anyway) hearing at the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building, where t ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Tomorrow, Texas AG to Make Case That Gay Divorce is Gateway to Gay Marriage
Attorney Pete Schulte and the petitioner still known as J.B. on The Daily Show in JanuaryMark it down: 2 p.m. tomorrow, George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building. That's when the Fifth Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments for case No. 05-09-01170-CV -- otherwise known as In the Matter of the Marri ... More >>