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  2. Interpleader - Wikipedia

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    Interpleader is a civil procedure device that allows a plaintiff or a defendant to initiate a lawsuit in order to compel two or more other parties to litigate a dispute. An interpleader action originates when the plaintiff holds property on behalf of another, but does not know to whom the property should be transferred.

  3. Impleader - Wikipedia

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    Rule 14(a)(5): A third-party defendant may engage in third-party practice of his own. Rule 14(a)(6): Special rules regarding maritime or admiralty jurisdiction. Rule 14(b): When a claim is asserted against a plaintiff, he may engage in third-party practice of his own. Rule 14(c): Special rules regarding maritime or admiralty jurisdiction.

  4. Law of Texas - Wikipedia

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    [2] [5] In 1963, the Texas legislature began a major revision of the 1925 Texas statutory classification scheme, and as of 1989 over half of the statutory law had been arranged under the recodification process. [2] The de facto codifications are Vernon's Texas Statutes Annotated and Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated, commonly known as Vernon's.

  5. Federal Interpleader Act of 1917 - Wikipedia

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    In 1936 the Federal Interpeader Act was again repealed and replaced by the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936, 49 Stat. 1096, approved Jan. 20, 1936, drafted by Zechariah Chafee which codified it in as United States Judicial Code §41(26), and established the modern statutory interpleader allowing suite to be brought by any person, firm ...

  6. Ruiz v. Estelle - Wikipedia

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    There followed a long period of further litigation in the form of consent decrees, appeals and other legal actions, until a final judgment was rendered in 1992. [1] But problems in enforcement continued, and in 1996 U.S. Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) to address these issues as well as abuse of the prison litigation ...

  7. Texas ‘mutual combat’ law allows settling scores with fists ...

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    What’s the Texas law behind mutual combat? The statute is in the Texas Penal Code section 22.06. It boils down to this : Someone charged with assault can point to the victim’s consent to fight ...

  8. Are citizens’ arrests legal in Texas? State law is blurry and ...

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    Texas law states: “A peace officer or any other person, may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed in his presence or within his view, if the offense is one classed ...

  9. Conflict of laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, suppose State X has a law that limits recovery in a tort suit, and state Y has no such limit. A plaintiff from State X suing a defendant from State Y will want the rule of State Y to apply rather than the limit imposed by state X; the defendant will want the State X's limit to apply. In such a case, the law of the forum will prevail.