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March 22, 2020 Dear Friends: I hope everyone is doing well, and taking care of themselves.  The courts of appeals continue to do crank out the opinions, and we have several error preservation decisions this week to show for their good efforts. Table of Contents There are a couple of jury charge cases in which […]

March 16, 2020 Dear All: I think I’m almost back on track. I hope this finds all of you in fine fettle and plugging along. Table of Contents Two Supreme Court Error Preservation Cases The Court held that the objection at trial about a judge testifying was sufficiently specific, when it “expressed the basic rationale”

March 9, 2020 Dear All: I have gotten way behind, owing to an oral argument and some deadlines. I’ve nearly caught up on the stuff over the last month, but I thought I would go ahead an profile this week’s stuff just to get back in the routine. Table of Contents One case dealt with

January 26, 2020 Dear All: I skipped a week, and it appears the bottom fell out. But there is a lot of stuff here to contemplate: Table of Contents At least in a divorce proceeding, the lack of pleadings to support portions of a default judgment is a complaint which one can first raise on

January 11, 2020 Dear All: Hey there, Buckaroos!  Some old, some new, some reminders, as the Table of Contents shows. Table of Contents I will let you all figure out the extent to which the courts feel that the Supreme Court has relaxed the error preservation rules as they apply to motions to dismiss under

January 4, 2020 Dear All: Some of the courts issued decisions in the first few days of the new year, and some of these decisions are interesting: Table of Contents You have to get a ruling on your complaint Motion to Withdraw Deemed Admissions Your must present your complaint with sufficient specificity. Sometimes, based on

January 1, 2020 Dear All: Welcome to the New Year!  I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season, and anticipates the Best New Year ever! The courts issued some interesting preservation decisions in the last week of the year, as the Table of Contents shows: Table of Contents The complete failure to authenticate

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