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| filing_id | date ▲ | doc_type | party | description | doc_type_detail | procedural_posture | chain | outcome | phase | filename | relief_requested | full_text |
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| 66 | 2024-01-19 | MNT | Kassab | Motion for New Trial | Kassab Defendants' Motion for New Trial, filed in the alternative to the JNOV Motion, raising 22 grounds for new trial including: (1) newly discovered evidence of witness bribery/tampering (Walker 30% confession), (2-4) factual insufficiency on trade secret ownership and misappropriation, (5-6) jury charge errors on Q3 and proportionate responsibility, (7) limitations question error on Q5, (8) insufficiency on Q5 answer, (9-10) refusal to submit unlawful acts defense and immunity/privilege questions, (11) exclusion of barratry expert testimony, (12) Q6 attorney immunity question error, (13) insufficiency on Q6, (14) improper Q7(1) submission (attorney fees not TUTSA damages), (15) property owner rule error, (16) insufficiency on Q7(2)-(3), (17-18) insufficiency on willful/malicious and exemplary damages, (19) conspiracy preemption, (20) denial of responsible third party designations, (21) denial of abatement, (22) privilege/offensive use errors, and (23) dismissal of barratry counterclaims, plus insufficiency of attorney fees evidence | Post-judgment motion filed January 19, 2024, simultaneously with the JNOV Motion, within 30 days of the December 22, 2023 Final Judgment. Filed in the alternative — if Court does not grant JNOV, it should grant a new trial on any of 22 enumerated grounds. | POST-1 | N/A | Phase 5 | 2024-01-19_MNT_Kassab-Motion-for-New-Trial_FILED.pdf | New trial on all claims — vacate final judgment and order new trial. Alternatively, new trial on specific issues and/or remittitur of exemplary damages. | 1/19/2024 3:31 PM Marilyn Burgess - District Clerk Harris County Envelope No. 83597613 By: Rhonda Momon Filed: 1/19/2024 3:31 PM CAUSE NO. 2018-58419 MICHAEL A. POHL, et al. § IN THE DISTRICT COURT V. § OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS SCOTT FAVRE, et al. § 281st JUDICIALk DISTRICT THE KASSAB DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR NEWC TRIAL In the alternative to their Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and to Disregard Jury Findings (“the JNOV Motion”), Defenidants Lance Christopher Kassab and Lance Christopher Kassab, P.C. d/b/a The Kassab Law Firm (“Kassab”) file this Motion for New Trial and would respectfully show as follows. SUMMARY Pohl’s claims against Kassab are barlred as a matter of law, so the Court should grant the JNOV Motion. To the extenMt the Court does not disregard findings of the jury and enter a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of Kassab, it should grant a new trial for any one oif the following reasons: 1. Newly discovered evidence demonstrates that material witnesses engaged in poerjury and Pohl engaged in unlawful bribery and witness tamperinlg which resulted in the jury being deceived as to material issuesi. 2. Factually insufficient evidence supports the jury’s finding in Question 1 that Pohl owned a trade secret in (a) attorney-client fee contracts and (b) lists of Pohl’s actual, potential, or rejected clients. 3. The trial court erred by submitting Question 2, the misappropriation question, to the jury because it failed to sufficiently distinguish the acts of each defendant and included liability theories not supported by legally sufficient evidence. 4. Factually insufficient evidence supports the jury’s finding in Qukestion 2 that Kassab misappropriated Pohl’s alleged trade secreCt. 5. The Court improperly submitted Question 3 on Pohl’s “wrongful conduct” because it is not tied to the privilege quesition, proportionate responsibility question or anything else in the jury charge. 6. The Court erred by refusing to submit Kassab’s proposed jury question on immunity or privilege. 7. The … |
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