Summaries of Civil Opinions and Published Criminal Opinions Issued – Week of September 20, 2010

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J&J Sports Prods., Inc., v. JWJ Mgmt., Inc.,    No. 02-09-00404-CV    (Sept. 23, 2010)   (Dauphinot, J., joined by Walker and Meier, JJ).

Held:   The trial court correctly determined that Texas's two-year statute of limitations applies to Appellant's federal cable piracy claims. When a federal statute does not provide its own limitations period, this court borrows a state limitations period from the most closely analogous state law, unless a federal rule clearly provides a closer analogy and federal policies and practicalities of litigation make that rule significantly more appropriate. Because in this case a federal rule does not clearly provide a closer analogy than Texas's cable piracy statute and the practicalities of litigation do not make borrowing from a federal rule more appropriate, the trial court correctly applied the Texas limitations period.

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