Legal Opinion

Marks v. Feldman

Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)

Decided September 13, 1995No. 05-94-01839-CVPublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BAKER, Justice.

This is an appeal from visiting judge David Cave’s order sealing the statement of facts of an ex parte-in camera hearing. After announcing its decision to seal the record of the ex parte-in camera hearing, the trial court stated:

We set ourselves upon a new course like Columbus who sailed the ocean blue. He did not sail by course that was known before he chartered [sic] new path.

We disagree. The trial court’s course was well marked and well known. We need not chart a new course to decide this appeal. Our forefathers long ago clearly charted the judiciary’s course under…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. In Re OliverSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  2. Craig v. HarneySupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  3. United States v. MaraSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  4. Davenport v. GarciaTexas Supreme Court · 1992
  5. United States v. Bobbie Stanford, Louis Watson, Janice Davis, Estella Patterson, Doris Beverly, Dorothy Fife, Richard O'rourke, and Dorothy JonesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. United States Government v. MarksTexas Supreme Court · 1997
  2. Feldman v. MarksTexas Supreme Court · 1996
  3. Ryan v. Rosenthal, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2010
  4. Feldman v. MarksTexas Supreme Court · 1996
  5. Robert C. Ryan, Jeffery L. Dorrell, Steven Howell, Joann McCracken, Lonnie Buckner, Barbara Coffman Buck, Shannon Burns, Dan Hall, and Pat Riddle Womack v. Charles A. Rosenthal, in His Capacity as District Attorney of Harris County, Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2010

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