2019

December 20, 2019 Dear All: Once again, the courts seemed to have gotten busier as the holidays approach, or perhaps they have just encountered more cases involving error preservation. But some interesting decisions populate this week’s traffic, as the Table of Contents shows–and everyone needs to read the Jury Charge case out of the 14th […]

December 13, 2019 Dear All: The courts seemed to have gotten busier as the holidays approach, or perhaps they have just encountered more cases involving error preservation. But some interesting decisions populate this week’s traffic, as the Table of Contents shows: Table of Contents I thought I would mention one case where the court seemed

December 9, 2019 Dear All: Things were a little slow on the error preservation front last week–never a bad thing.  But there were a couple of interesting cases, as reflected in this Table of Contents: In the category of “your complaint must be timely,” this case about making a jury demand provides a warning that

Dear All: I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and looks forward to a wonderful holiday season to come. Table of Contents A party does not need to raise some complaints in the trial court–perhaps to an untranslated document completely in a foreign language (or, at least, one does not have to get a ruling

Dear All: Once again, there were not a lot of error preservation decisions last week–not unusual for this time of year. Table of Contents One case presented a reminder that a court of appeals will not consider, as a ground for reversing a summary judgment, an issue not expressly presented to the trial court by

Dear All: There were not a lot of error preservation decisions last week–not unusual for this time of year. Table of Contents A complaint about the lack of subject matter jurisdiction-such as a complaint that the trial court did not try a SAPCR before the dismissal deadline, nor properly extend that deadline-may be raised for

Dear Folks: The volume of decisions has followed its annual abatement trend since the end of the fiscal year on August 31. Both the justices and the staff attorneys had their respective annual meetings the first full week of September, and the Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar took place that same week. But the justices and

Dear All: Well, here we are at Labor Day–we may have the most brutal days of summer behind us, we can look forward to autumn, and the courts of appeals closed out the last week of their fiscal years (on August 31).  As usual, they issued a lot of opinions, and a lot of opinions

Dear All: As we come to the end of the fiscal year for the courts of appeals, here are some of the error preservation decisions from last week. Table of Contents You don’t have to cite the specific case in your summary judgment response in order to rely on that case on appeal—merely arguing its

Hello, Buckaroos: Here are some of the error preservation decisions from last week. Table of Contents Your complaint must be timely–which, for a complaint about a visiting judge, means it cannot be made before his/her assignment, and must be made within seven days thereafter You have to comply with the pertinent rules You have to