Local Rule 1.06-1.08 of the Dallas County Civil Courts local rules adopted January 15th, 2014 provides a related-case requirement that can potentially prevent a Temporary Restraining Order from being granted. Under Rule 1.06, the Judge in the earliest case filed of any related cases has the option of consolidating the later-filed cases into the earliest […]
The so-called “American Rule” provides that, in most of the United States—Texas included, each side to a lawsuit, Plaintiff and Defendant, must pay its own attorney’s fees. While we inherited most of our legal system from the British common law, we do not generally follow the “English Rule,” which states that the losing side pays
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Sometimes, at the end of a lawsuit, in the final draft of a settlement agreement that has been months or years in the making, one of the parties will casually throw in a global mutual liability release that is not limited to the transactions or occurrences that are the subject of the litigation. Sometimes, this
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