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A substantial change regarding the collection of attorney's fees in Texas litigation took effect September 1, 2021.

Because defense counsel had appeared on defendant’s behalf, defendant violated N.C. R. Civ. P. 11 when he subsequently filed eight pro se motions and initiated a civil suit against plaintiff for actions that took place prior to a consent order, in which the parties had “waive[d] further claims against one another” based on conduct occurring ...

Where a Probate & Family Court judge, having found a respondent to be an incapacitated person, entered a decree and order appointing a limited guardian to make medical decisions, so much of the decree and order as authorized the administration of two alternative antipsychotic medications must be vacated, as the judge did not have a

Where a complaint was dismissed under the doctrine of collateral estoppel, the dismissal judgment must be vacated because the prongs of claim preclusion and issue preclusion have not been satisfied. “This action was brought by Graeme Fisher (Graeme) against his brother, Cameron Fisher (Cameron), in Cameron's capacity as representative of the estate of their father,

Plaintiff alleges a violation of South Carolina’s Financial Identity Fraud and Identity Theft Protection Act based on defendant’s website requiring plaintiff to enter six digits of his social security number in order to learn whether he had been affected by the Equifax data breach. Although plaintiff thus alleges an injury in law, since he does ...