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Case Information

Filed 2023-06-08
Status Closed
Type Direct Appeal Civil Common Law Contract
Docket 37 entries

Docket Entries

  1. Service - Certified mail signature return card signed for 3/8/24
  2. Notice-Incoming - Record completion notice from district court
  3. Fees - Docket fee received (Receipt E-mailed to Mr. Phelan)
  4. Notice-Outgoing - Docketing letter (E-Served via CTEF)
  5. Motion - Extension of time - brief (appellee's object)
  6. Order Denying Motion for Extension of Time to File Appellant's Brief
  7. Event - Hardcopy received - Motion for Extension of Time to File Appellant's Brief
  8. Brief - Appellant
  9. Event - Hardcopy received - Appellant's Brief
  10. Notice-Incoming - Designation of record (Appellant's)
  11. Brief - Appellee (American Nat. Property)
  12. Event - Hardcopy received - Brief of Appellees American National Property and Casualty Insurance Company and American National Insurance Company
  13. Brief - Appellee (Maggard)
  14. Event - Hardcopy received - Brief of Appellee Philip Maggard
  15. Notice-Outgoing - Notice of case maturity
  16. Notice-Outgoing - Request for transmitted record on appeal
  17. Brief - Appellant reply
  18. Event - Hardcopy received - Appellant's Reply Brief
  19. Record - Transmitted record on appeal from district court clerk, five volumes, original papers.
  20. Notice-Outgoing - Transmitted record on appeal filed
  21. Order - Oral argument scheduled
  22. Notice-Outgoing - Receipt acknowledgment - oral argument setting (fill out and return to Clerk's Office)
  23. Notice-Incoming - Receipt acknowledgment - oral argument setting received by Bernard Phelan obo appellant
  24. Notice-Incoming - Receipt acknowledgment - oral argument setting from Catherine Young obo Appellee American National Insurance Company
  25. Notice-Incoming - Receipt acknowledgment - oral argument setting from Erin E. Berry obo Appellee Phillip Maggard (arguing)
  26. Notice-Incoming - Receipt acknowledgment - oral argument setting from Robert C. Jarosh obo Appellee Phillip Maggard (appearing, but not arguing)
  27. Event - Phone Call - with Appellee Maggard's counsel Hirst Applegate (Shelley). His name is is spelled, Philip, with one "l", not two. Case caption has been changed to reflect the correct spelling of his name.
  28. Event - Phone Call from Cat Young, American National will be arguing first for the Appellees
  29. Notice-Internal - Oral argument notice argued before Chief Justice Fox, and Justices Kautz, Boomgaarden, Gray and Fenn (Bernard Phelan arguing obo Appellant, and Catherine Young arguing obo Appellees, American National) and Erin Berry and Robert C. Jarosh appearing, with argument by Ms. Berry on behalf of Phillip Maggard, and taken under advisement
  30. Opinion - Opinion and journal order, affirming with Justice Gray writing for the Court.
  31. Petition - Rehearing (came into queue 2/24/2024)
  32. Event - Hardcopy received - Appellant's Petition for Rehearing
  33. Order Denying Petition for Rehearing
  34. Notice-Outgoing - Mandate
  35. Record - Record returned to district court
  36. Notice-Outgoing - Record return letter
  37. Event - Case closed

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