T. Rex suit takes Texas lawyer to NYC and Mongolia - ABA Journal: "It's taken him to Mongolia, where evidence was collected in the Gobi desert, and from his Houston law office to a Dallas judge's home, on a Saturday morning, where Painter filed an emergency civil suit and obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order, he tells the ABA Journal. The company conducting the auction was based there, so the Texas court had jurisdiction.
"To me, that was the hardest part of the whole case, getting a judge on the weekend," said Painter, explaining that he'd been put in touch by friends of the judge after he reached out to contacts in Dallas.
Texas law provides for judges to accept filings and permits ex parte TROs, Painter said. But a bond requirement had to be finessed, because the court clerk's office wouldn't be open to accept it until Monday. The judge went ahead and issued the order banning the auction, based on Painter's promise to put up the bond on the next business day."
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