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Meyer v. Castroville State Bank
Texas Court of Appeals, Fourth District · State appellate courts · TX · · No. 04-25-00278-CV Lance J. MEYER and Kerry L. Meyer, A · memorandum opinion
The Texas Court of Appeals, Fourth District on 2026-04-22 affirmed the summary judgment for the bank and declined to initiate sanctions proceedings over two non-existent cases in Meyer v. Castroville State Bank. The self-represented party filed a submission with two fabricated case citations.
- Disposition
- The court affirmed the summary judgment for the bank and declined to initiate sanctions proceedings over two non-existent cases.
- Recorded conduct
- The self-represented party filed a submission with two fabricated case citations. — outcome: other; actor: litigant in person
- Canonical record
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What the court wrote
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at 124 (“In accord with the substance and sense of our decisions in Lassiter and Santosky, [citation omitted], we place decrees forever terminating parental rights in the category of cases in which the State may not ‘bolt the door to equal justice[. ]’”). We overrule the Meyers’s second issue. D. Nonexistent Authority Before concluding, we would be remiss without acknowledging the Meyers’s reference to two non-existent cases. “Courts across the country have issued sanctions against attorneys and pro se parties for submitting fictitious case citations, fictitious quotations, and related misrepresentations to the court, including” dismissing or denying the appeal. United States v. Hayes, 763 F. Supp. 3d 1054, 1071–72 (E. D. Cal.
Authorities cited in the passage: United States v. Hayes, 763 F
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