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The district court also held that the plaintiffs failed to make a compelling claim that MySpace had committed fraud or engaged in negligent misrepresentation. [2] This was due to the requirements of Texas state law that a duty of care be established and that evidence of a breach of that duty must be presented in court. [4]
The case will go to trial after February 2017. Gautz said, “We are confident that when all of the facts are presented in court—rather than a few allegations strategically presented to the media—the outcome of this case will be in the favor of the State.”
The federal courts sitting in Texas apply state law when the case is not controlled by federal law or by the law of another jurisdiction based contractual choice of law or other basis for application of another's jurisdiction's law. Not infrequently the federal district courts sitting in Texas and the U.S.
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
A Houston man was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting a 9-year-old and being a dark web administrator for a website that consisted of child sex abuse ...
Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U.S. 255 (2023), was a Supreme Court of the United States case brought by the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana, and individual plaintiffs, that sought to declare the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) unconstitutional.
The appeals court relied on a 1968 Supreme Court ruling that a state can limit minors’ access to sexually explicit material – in that case, so-called “girlie” magazines. But while that ...
We’ve all had it: the impending sense of doom that comes with boarding an overnight flight only to find that there was a baby seated next to us.