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4 Nov, 2008 4:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
... be relevant under current law, such as the recent opinion from the Seventh Court of Appeals in Amarillo in Southwestern Bell Telephone Company v. Combs, et al., No. 07-07-0172-CV (October 28, 2008), involving the franchise tax in effect for calendar years 1996 through 2001. ... that the charges in question were receipts from the performance of services in Texas and thus part of Bell's Texas receipts for apportionment purposes. The Court of Appeals' opinion indicates that over $43 ...
Tags: Texas, Franchise, Tax
Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog - http://www.txsaltlaw.com/
29 Sep 4:38 pm
AT&T Services, Inc., doing business as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, L.P. (AT&T), a major telephone company, violated federal law by refusing to hire an applicant simply because he is an insulin-dependent diabetic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed last week. According to the EEOC's suit, AT&T violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to hire an applicant as a cable splicer technician in Austin...
The HR Lawyer's Blog - http://www.hrlawyersblog.com
18 Sep, 2008 8:56 pm by Ben Winograd
... Petitioner's reply __________________ Docket: 07-1489 Case name: Trainer Wortham & Company, Inc., et al. v. Betz Issue: Whether the statute of limitations in securities fraud ... in opposition Petitioner's reply __________________ Docket: 07-1550 Case name: Southwestern Bell Telephone Company v. Texas Cable Association, et al. Issue: Whether an ... __________________ Docket: 07-1601; 07-1607 Case name: Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, et al. v. United States; Shell Oil Company v. ...
SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/
28 Jul 9:30 am
Oklahoma attorneys defending lawsuits brought by policyholders against insurance companies regularly use the defense of forseeability to limit special damages which are claimed in the lawsuit. Special damages for failure to pay under ... the time of contracting. Oklahoma courts limit damages which are not forseeable. Coker v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, 1978 OK 85, 580 P.2d 151, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Ridley, 1962 OK 277, 383 P.2d 227. The term "forseeable" is best understood ...
Oklahoma Insurance Law - http://www.okinsurancelawblog.com/
28 Jan, 2008 6:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
... 't pursued them (i.e., the cases had become subject to "dismissal for want of prosecution"). One such case was Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. v. Strayhorn, et al., Cause Number GN402300, in which the Travis County District Court ... to Retain on January 8th, thus keeping the case eligible to being pursued to conclusion. Southwestern Bell certainly had a strong incentive for avoiding dismissal for want of prosecution: the company is seeking a sales tax refund of $291,516,385.00 for the period of ...
Tags: Tax, Use, Sales, Texas
Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog - http://www.txsaltlaw.com/
3 Apr 9:19 am by Don Cruse
... of the Court. Justice Wainwright delivered a concurring opinion, with which Justice Medina joined. Relocation Damages Not Generally Available for Takings Cases In Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. v. Harris County Toll Road Authority, No. 06-0933 (DB), a company sought relocation expenses when it was forced to move by new road construction. The Chief Justice wrote for a unanimous Court. This sums it up: A ...
The Supreme Court of Texas blog - http://www.scotxblog.com
18 Apr 1:46 pm by WOLFGANG P. HIRCZY DE MIÑO
... misleading message from presiding jury regarding damages, which prompted settlement) FORD MOTOR COMPANY v. EZEQUIEL CASTILLO, ET AL.; from Cameron County; 13th district (13-04- ... (Tex. 2009)(Jefferson)(eminent domain, county entity immune to claim for reimbursement of costs of telephone line relocation necessitated by toll road project. SWBT has no vested property interest in use of public way for transmission equipment). SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE, L.P., D/B/A SBC TEXAS v. HARRIS COUNTY TOLL ...
The Jefferson Court Blog - http://texas-opinions.blogspot.com/
20 May, 2008 10:31 pm by A. Benjamin Spencer
Per Southwestern Bell Telephone, LP v. City Of Houston, --- F.3d ----, 2008 WL 2102283 (5th Cir. May 20, 2008): Section 253(a) of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (FTA) provides: "No State or local statute or regulation, ... .P. v. County of San Diego, 490 F.3d 700, 717-18 (9th Cir.2007) (stating " § 253(a) does not designate companies like [AT & T] as the 'identifiable class' required for an enforceable § 1983 right"); Qwest Corp. v. City of Santa Fe, N.M., 380 F ...
Split Circuits - http://splitcircuits.blogspot.com
5 Jan 3:15 am
... Cir. Laid-off workers win some discrimination lawsuits, lose some Sanders v. Southwestern Bell Telephone State Roundup AL NEWS · More on civil contempt proceeding to enforce 1981 consent decree vs Jefferson Cnty re hiring of Blacks and fems CA DECIDED [ ... comments at workplace amount to race discrimination San Fran challenging state legislation that allows insurance companies to charge women more than men for health coverage Black worker, suing Merced Irrigation District ...
New York Public Personnel Law - http://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/
12 Nov 9:01 am by David Johnson
... intrusion upon seclusion does not require a showing of publicity of private facts about the plaintiff, merely an intrusion into the plaintiff's privacy through unreasonable means. See Corcoran v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 572 S.W.2d 212, 215 (Mo. Ct. App. 1978), Dietemann ... a business lawyer whose practice focuses on litigation and other issues relating to digital media and consumer electronics companies. David can be contacted at (310) 785-5371 or DJohnson@jmbm.com.
Digital Media Lawyer Blog - http://www.digitalmedialawyerblog.com/
2 Mar 4:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
... held that use tax is owed on an out-of-state printer's charges for printing a "final product" - in that case, telephone directories - to be distributed in Texas. In reaching that conclusion, the majority had to work through some issues specifically affecting the application ... majority's analysis. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain (Connecticut District telephone Company) The court litigation followed the Comptroller's denial of Southwestern Bell's refund claim, probably in Hearing No. 48,135 ( ...
Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog - http://www.txsaltlaw.com/
20 Dec, 2007 6:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
... in the printing operation are not taxable because of a 2003 amendment to Section 151.011 of the Texas Tax Code. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages contends that its directories were "manufactured," rather than "purchased," outside of Texas, making the ... distributed in this state. What's more, as the visitor correctly observed, the outcome of Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages is important to businesses beyond telephone directory companies that have yellow pages printed out-of-state and then distributed in ...
Tags: Texas, Sales, Use, Tax
Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog - http://www.txsaltlaw.com/
30 May, 2008 9:09 am
... patenting and enforcement': (IPKat), Court revokes Aerotel's landmark patent for telephone systems in case against WaveCrest: (Out-Law), (IP Law360), Jimmy Choo ... before leaving Mattel to work for MGA: (IPKat), Montana Camo - Camouflage gear company Montana Camo sues Cabela for design theft: (IP Law360), Morgan Lewis - ... ITC complaint regarding alleged semiconductor laser patent infringement: (IP Law360), Southwestern Bell - CAFC rules notice must be provided for JMOL when factual dispute exists: ...
IP Thinktank - http://duncanbucknell.com/blog
30 Jan, 2007 11:55 pm by Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog
... within the company, regardless of whether the software was developed there or not. As such, situations arise where a telephone company (e.g., Southwestern Bell Corp.) can send cease-and desist letters to a toy company (e.g ... decentralized industry stem from the elimination of the "insignificant postsolution activity" stipulation on patentable subject matter. Virtually every company in the country has a computer on hand, and those of a certain scale have full-time employees actively writing code. ...
Tags: Reform, Patent
Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog - http://271patent.blogspot.com
         
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