court costs in texas

• Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. (2011)

... state and federal courts in Louisiana, Texas, andCalifornia, and two of those courts-a Texas st... significant delays and impose additional costs onthe bankruptcy process. See, e.g., Brief for Pe...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Like a Bad Neighbor

If s a giant shell game," says Alex Winslow, head of the nonprofit watchdog group Texas Watch. "State Farm Lloyds buys reinsurance from the national State Farm- and they mark that as a loss on their books." They then "use that as an excuse to hike their rates. What State Farm means by "unprofitable" is that expenses were greater than revenues. What constitutes expenses? According to [Kevin Davis], the company spokesperson, "overhead, building costs, and employee compensation." Also "reinsurance expenses," which include the money that State Farm Lloyds pays to the parent company for reinsurance. Thafs what Texas Watch calls "moving money from one pocket to another." There's more trouble- and higher rates- ahead if Texas doesn't put some teeth into its regulatory system. Since Gov. [Ric...

...State Farm refused and took TDI to court. This would become apattern. After five years of l...

• Texas Observer, The
• June 28, 2010

• Perry v. Perez, 565 U.S. (2012)

..., 11-714 and 11-715 RICK PERRY, GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, ET AL.,APPELLANTS. 11-713 v. SHANNON PEREZ ET AL ...But the State's planaccepted the costs of splitting precincts in order to accomplish othe...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• From colorblindness to antibalkanization: an emerging ground of decision in race equality cases.

...-century after King spoke, in the Supreme Court's recent decisions addressing race-conscious effor...Texas, in RACE AND REPRESENTATION: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 29...REV. 905 (exploring benefits and costs of limiting anti-alien legislation that do not dir...

• Yale Law Journal
• Vol. 120 Nbr. 6, April 2011

• Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco Inc., 481 U.S. 1 (1987)

... . Under Texas law, a judgment creditor can secure and execute a ... the amount of the judgment, interest, and costs. Appellant obtained a jury verdict of $10.53 billi...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Del-Ray Battery Company, et al v. Douglas Battery, (5th Cir. 2011)

... IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT... for the Eastern District of Texas. Before KING, DAVIS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges... for contribution to environmental clean-up costs incurred by Appellees. Appellants asserted in thei...

• Federal Circuits

• Reyna v. Escobar, (Ohio 2005)

Trial court properly denied appellants' motion for relief from judgment issued by Texas county court where trial court had no authority to review award of collection costs and sale of home at sheriff's sale in Texas under Ohio law.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Dewey Weaver v. Texas Capital Bank, N.A., (5th Cir. 2011)

... IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE FIFTH CIRCU... against Weaver for $766,645.79, plus fees, costs, and interest. In February 2009, Texas Capital ini...

• Federal Circuits

• Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. (2011)

... Scott, the former head of corrections in Texas, described conditions in California's prisons as "... prisoners and without incurring the costs associated with a large-scale prisonconstruct...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Nelson Show Throwdown's Best -- Kids' Rock

Just hours before he took the stage before a crowd of about 4,000 at Southaven's Snowden Grove Amphitheater Thursday night, news came that country crooner and legendary toker Willie Nelson had avoided jail time that day for a November pot bust in West Texas. The prosecutor, who at one point suggested (jokingly, he later said) that the 78-year-old singer could get the charge dropped if he sang his hit "Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain" in the courtroom, let Nelson off with $500 fine plus court costs.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• June 13, 2011