Habeas Corpus Law
 
Matthew Knorr v. Marilynn Marie Knorr

Fort Worth, TX - Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with a dispute over their entitlement to one another’s military retirement benefits.



In 2008, Marilynn petitioned for divorce from Matthew. At the time, both were
members of the armed services. Later that year, the parties stipulated to a fi... More...
   $0 (03-25-2022 - TX)

Dakota Layne Mitchell v. The State of Texas Child Sexual Predator

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from his conviction and five-year sentence.



Mitchell began a dating relationship with the complainant when she was twelve
and he was seventeen. The complainant testified that during that relationship Mitchell
digita... More...
   $0 (03-25-2022 - TX)

City of Richland Hills, Texas v. Barbara Childress

Fort Worth, TX - Age Discrimination lawyer represented Appellant with appealing that the trial court erred by denying its motion for summary judgment.



After serving nearly thirty-four years as the City’s Chief of Police, Childress was
fired on March 29, 2018, at age sixty-nine and replaced by a... More...
   $0 (03-25-2022 - TX)

John Nguyen and Jeslyn Tran v. Minh Nguyen and Nga Le

Fort Worth, TX - Business Law lawyer represented Appellants with appealing from a summary judgment for appellees.



Because Managers’ conduct during the suit bears on the trial court’s deemedadmissions ruling, we set forth the procedural background in detail.
The Lawsuitss
In 2016, Managers... More...
   $0 (03-25-2022 - TX)

Gary Bruce Peek v. Linda Mayfield

Fort Worth, TX - Revocable Trust lawyer represented Appellant in a trust dispute.



A. Background from the El Paso Court of Appeals
The factual setting for this case was well stated in an earlier opinion from the
El Paso Court of Appeals:
FACTUAL SUMMARY
Russell and Dorothy Peek were th... More...
   $0 (03-23-2022 - TX)

Mallory York, Jr. v. Makeatha Cooper-York

Fort Worth, TX - Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with challenging the denial of his petition for bill of review.



This appeal is in a unique procedural stance. Though we gave the pro se
Appellee more than one opportunity to do so, she failed to file a brief that meets the
requirements of ... More...
   $0 (03-22-2022 - TX)

Keith Hamaker v. Tierrah Newman

Fort Worth, TX - Eviction lawyer represented Appellant with appealing the judgment entered against him.



In this landlord-tenant dispute, pro se Appellant Keith Hamaker appeals the
$47,520 judgment entered against him after a jury found that he breached his lease
agreement with tenant Tierrah... More...
   $0 (03-21-2022 - TX)

Fabian Thomas v. Denise Daniel

Fort Worth, TX - Divorce lawyer represented Appellee with a dispute over pension benefits.



Thomas began working for the federal government in 1989. He and Daniel
married in 2000. A divorce decree dissolved the marriage in September 2011.
One of the assets divided in the decree was Thomas’s ... More...
   $0 (03-20-2022 - TX)

Martin Rojas v. Brittan Rojas

Fort Worth, TX - Forcible Detainer lawyer represented Appellant with challenging a forcible detainer suit.



After Jenkins-Jefferson allegedly defaulted on a payment agreement with the
homeowners’ association, it foreclosed on her home and sold it to Disanti. Disanti filed
this forcible deta... More...
   $0 (03-20-2022 - TX)

Jeremiah Junius Francis v. Doneisha Cheree Davis

Houston, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with a failing to pay child support and medical support charge.



The lengthy proceedings underlying this appeal began in April 2004, when
the Office of the Attorney General filed an original petition in a suit affecting the
parent-child ... More...
   $0 (03-18-2022 - TX)

The State of Texas v. Felix Linares

Houston, Texas - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with failing to stop and give information on striking an unattended vehicle charge.



In trial court cause number 2208411, appellee was charged by information
with the misdemeanor offense of failing to stop and give information on stri... More...
   $0 (03-18-2022 - TX)

Dani Roisman v. Gavriella Etana Roisman

Houston, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented Appellee with a enforcement action for medical child support.



Dani and Gavriella have three children together. Jane is their oldest child.
Dani and Gavriella divorced in February 2018 when Jane was 15 years old.
Dani and Gavriella signed an Agree... More...
   $0 (03-18-2022 - TX)

Dmintry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko

Houston, TX - Divorce lawyer represented defendant with considering whether a Russian divorce decree has subject-matter jurisdiction.



The Parties’ Relationship
Dmitry Nikolenko (“Dmitry”) and Luiza Nikolenko (“Luiza”) were married
on March 15, 2011 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Luiza is... More...
   $0 (03-17-2022 - MD)

Crosley Alexander Green v. Secretary, Department of Corrections, Attorney General, State of Florida

Tampa, Florida criminal defense appellate lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued the State of Florida seeking a writ of habeas corpus setting aside his conviction for murder, armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury.


The power of the federal courts to grant a writ of habeas corpus setting aside a state prisoner's conviction on a claim that his conviction was obtained in violat... More...
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ISRAEL AARON PAGAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA AND WAYNE IVEY, SHERIFF, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA

Daytona Beach, FL - Criminal Defenselawye r represented defendant with petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking immediate release.



The record evidence indicates that Pagan was adjudicated
incompetent to proceed due to intellectual disability or autism in case 2017-
CF-047635 and rel... More...
   $0 (02-22-2022 - FL)

MELISSA COSSIO vs CARMINE MARCENO, SHERIFF OF LEE COUNTY GABRIEL COSSIO vs CARMINE MARCENO, SHERIFF OF LEE COUNTY

Tampa, FL - Criminal Defense lawyer represented petitioners with challenging the trial court's order revoking their bonds.



In these consolidated petitions for writ of habeas corpus,
petitioners Melissa Cossio and Gabriel Cossio—a married couple—
challenge the trial court's order revoking... More...
   $0 (02-20-2022 - FL)

M.A. Mortenson Company v. James M. Shelton

Fort Worth, Texas - Personal Injury lawyer represented Appellant with appealing for negligent undertaking.



Mortenson was the general contractor on an Archer County windmill farm
project called Bobcat Bluff Windmill Farm. The project developer, enXco, engaged
Westwood Professional Services, a... More...
   $0 (02-11-2022 - TX)

Simone Barron AND Walid Yammine v. Issam Al Shmaisani and Sharon Smith

Fort Worth, Texas - Real Estate lawyer represented Appellants with eappealing the trial court’s judgment concerning a real-estate transaction.



In separate briefing raising a plethora of issues, Simone Barron and her brother
Walid Yammine appeal the trial court’s judgment following a jury tri... More...
   $0 (02-11-2022 - TX)

Toni Marie Bullock v. The University of Texas at Arlington

Fort Worth, Texas - Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawyer represented Appellant with appealing dismissal of alleged violations of the ADA.



According to her pleadings, Bullock was a student at UTA who “suffers from
severe major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.” A... More...
   $0 (02-11-2022 - TX)

Miles Wesley Kenney v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented defendant with a Evading Arrest charge.



Based on a warrant, police officers arrested Kenney on January 11, 2017, for
the offense of evading arrest or detention with a vehicle because of events that
occurred on November 12, 2016. According to Ke... More...
   $0 (02-10-2022 - TX)

Joe Holcomb, et al. v. United States of America

San Antonio, Texas personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued the United States of America on Federal Tort Claims Act wrongful death negligence theories claiming millions of dollars in damages and/or injuries as a result of Devin Patrick Kelley being able to buy a semi-automatic rifle that he used to shoot and wound or kill numerous people attending a church service in 2017.

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   $230000000 (02-07-2022 - TX)

United States of America v. Zachary Taylor Blood

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with smuggling people into the United States in flag-draped coffins.

Zachary Taylor Blood, age 33, from Galveston, Texas admitted to one count of alien smuggling.

On Oct. 26, 2021, Blood drove a grey van modified to transport caskets into the primary inspection lane of the Border Patrol (BP) checkpoint ... More...
   $0 (01-26-2022 - TX)

Terry Lee Bizzle v. Eve Lynn Baker

Fort Worth, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with asking if the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction when it signed a final decree of divorce after the appellee died.



On October 23, 2018, Baker filed a divorce petition to dissolve her twenty-year
marriage to Bizzle. See Tex.... More...
   $0 (01-23-2022 - TX)

Lawrence Savoca v. United States of America

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, dismissing a second or successive petition for a writ of habeas corpus claim



In 2004, Lawrence Savoca was convicted after trial for various crim... More...
   $0 (01-22-2022 - NY)

Royce Homes, L.P.; Hammersmith Group, Inc. v. Deborah F. Bates, Verdia L. Boyce, Wadie & Demetria Butler, Robert & Billye Evans, Darlene Handy, Josaulyn Hoskins, Jinnell Ray, Trilyon Taylor, Barbara Wilson

Houston, TX – Property lawyer represented Appellant with appealing the order of the trial court confirming an arbitration award and final judgment in favor of appellee.



The nine homeowner appellees purchased homes from Royce Homes in the Garden Valley Estates subdivision. In purchasing their homes, each homeowner received a ... More...
   $0 (01-20-2022 - TX)

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