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Wendy Marie Meigs v. Trey Bergman, et al.
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, No. 14-19-00167-CV · judgment October 13, 2020
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Should a mediation, family court-ordered or not, follow normal courtroom guidelines as courts defer court functions to mediation which creates the expectations of participants that mediation will run under the same protections and guidelines of a regular courtroom? Should mediation participants and mediator be held liable for allowing the abuse and manipulation of a vulnerablevictim? (Murphy, 2021 ){United States ofAmerica, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Jeffrey L. Goldberg, Defendantappellant, 406 F.3d 891 (7th Cir. 2005).
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Should individuals be allowed to represent themselves in court, especially against educated, trained, and highly-skilled lawyers? (If the institution of justice continues to allow individuals to represent themselves, then the institution is geared against the self-litigant, pro-se). -i-
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Wendy Marie Meigs
For respondent
Diana L. Faust
Cooper & Scully, P.C.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 15 2021Petition DENIED.
- Oct 27 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
- Oct 27 2021Reply of petitioner Wendy M. Meigs filed. (Distributed)
- Oct 08 2021Brief of respondents Trey Bergman, et al. in opposition filed.
- Sep 02 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 8, 2021)