Yearly Archives: 2008

This Just In: Recent civil suits filed in Jefferson County District Courts

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This Just In: Recent civil suits filed in Jefferson County District Courts, Dec. 11-19, 2008 Read More »

Jefferson County, News, This Just In

New business licenses/assumed names issued in Jefferson County

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New business licenses/assumed names issued in Jefferson County, Dec. 18-30, 2008 Read More »

Business, Jefferson County, News

Capitol Comment: Panel Report Shows Need for Education Improvement

In a highly competitive global economy, the skills of the next generation of Americans will be the prime engine for our country’s economic growth.
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Arguments, Their View

Recent patent infringement suits filed in U.S. District Courts

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Recent patent infringement cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Dec. 19-24,2008 Read More »

Federal Court, News, Patent

Texas Supreme Court agrees with insurer in ‘good Samaritan’ case

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Justice David Brister

AUSTIN � The Supreme Court of Texas offers sympathy but nothing more to Louis Goudeau, a “good Samaritan” who got run over on the Sam Houston Tollway.
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Insurance, News, Texas Supreme Court

Jefferson County woman sues windstorm association over Hurricane Humberto claim

GALVESTON � A Jefferson County woman alleges the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association wrongfully denied a claim she submitted to the company after Hurricane Humberto reportedly inflicted damage to her home on the Bolivar Peninsula in September 2007. Lydia Jane Robertson … Read More »

Galveston County, Insurance, News

Legally Speaking: Signs That The Apocalypse Is Upon Us

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Some prognosticators of gloom and doom point to the predictable signs that the world is coming to an end: global warming, war in the Middle East, economic meltdown and so forth.
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Arguments, Their View, Tort Reform

This Just In: Recent civil suits filed in Orange County District Courts

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Recent civil suits filed in Orange County District Courts, Dec. 1-22, 2008 Read More »

News, Orange County, This Just In

Appeals court reverses $100M verdict against Fluor, remands to Jefferson County for new trial

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An engineering company was given an early Christmas present on Thursday, Dec. 18, when justices on the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals erased a $100 million verdict levied against it.
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Appeals Court, Contract, News

Crash into hot sauce leads to suit against H.E.B.

A Port Arthur woman has filed suit against H.E. Butt Grocery Co., alleging she slipped on water and fell into a display of glass jars of hot sauce while shopping at H.E. B. Pantry.
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Jefferson County, News, Personal Injury