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In the Matter of: TXNB Internal Case

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Debt Collection, Oil and Gas Law
In a natural gas producer's conversion action against Duke Energy company arising out of certain natural gas sales, summary judgment for Duke is...

Alpert v. US

Bankruptcy Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Debt Collection, Government Law, Tax Law
In an appeal involving a claim for a refund of overpaid taxes, summary judgment for the government is affirmed where taxpayers failed to present any...

County of San Bernardino v. Calderon

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case involving provision of medical care to defendant who was injured in a car accident, a holding that a hospital lien was created at the time the...

Gillespie v. Trans Union Corp.

Banking Law, Debt Collection
Summary judgment for defendant is affirmed in a suit under the Fair Credit Reporting Act where the language of 15 U.S.C. section 1681g(a)(1), the...

In the Matter of: Ark-La-Tex Timber Co., Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
Decisions resolving competing claims of two secured creditors to proceeds resulting from an auction of nontitled movables formerly owned by a bankrupt...

Ross v. RJM Acquisitions Funding LLC

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection
Summary judgment for debt collector is affirmed where the procedures that the defendant debt collector adopted in order to try to avoid dunning a...

In The Matter of: Plunk

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
In the context of determining whether a bankruptcy debtor's pension plan is exempt from being property of the estate, when disqualifying events occur...

Beler v. Blatt, Hasenmiller, Leibsker & Moore, LLC

Civil Procedure, Debt Collection
In an action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act alleging a confusing description of the contracts between a retailer and credit companies in...

Varner v. Cardenas

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
A court of appeals judgment reversing an award of attorney's fees due to a failure to segregate fees incurred in their suit on a promissory note from...

In re Discount Rental, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
In proceedings involving the potential sale of relator's property pursuant to a writ of execution obtained on a default judgment, relator's petition...