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  • Ivy League Justice

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.

  • Do Parents Have Rights?

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.

  • Jury awards Iraq veteran $1.7 million in 3M bellwether trial

    By David Yates |
    RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. -- Seeger Weiss LLP had announced a jury verdict of $1.7 million on behalf of Iraq veteran Lloyd Baker in the third of three initial bellwether trials in the 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liability Litigation—the largest consolidated federal mass tort in U.S. history, a press release states.

  • Mikal Watt’s work on opioid litigation totals $1.38M, attorney bills for reading news articles

    By David Yates |
    SAN ANTONIO – Most people can only fantasize about getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to kick back and read the newspaper. For the controversial Mikal Watts, however, it seems to be a reality.

  • Texas law firms grab millions in PPP loans – list includes Provost Umphrey, Thomas J. Henry Law, Baron & Budd and more

    By David Yates |
    BEAUMONT – Some of Texas’ most recognizable law firms seem to be struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have applied and received millions of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program.

  • Local businesses ‘cautiously optimistic’ about reopening despite COVID-19 litigation fears

    By David Yates |
    BEAUMONT – As Texas slowly creeps toward normalcy, most local businesses are looking forward to clicking on those open signs once again – in spite of a growing fear that a wave of COVID-19 lawsuits may follow.

  • Should Newspapers Be on the Federal Dole?

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Failing local newspapers unconvincingly use the Wuhan virus crisis as an excuse to feed at the public trough

  • Litigation Shouldn’t Be Necessary - But It Is, and Our Founders Knew It

    By Joe Consumer |
    Very few injured Americans file lawsuits. Granted it’s been awhile since anyone took an empirical look at the numbers, but when Rand’s Institute for Civil Justice did so 1991, researchers found that only 2 percent of injured Americans file lawsuits. The National Center for State Courts recently provided another perspective: “Tort cases garner a great deal of public interest but generally account for only about 4 percent of [state court] Civil caseloads….”

  • Harris County judge may lose seat for seeking higher office

    By Scott Holland |
    HOUSTON — Dress for the job you want, but do not apply for a new position before checking to see if you have to leave your current post first.

  • The Delusion of Good Faith Judging

    By Mark Pulliam |
    The concept of written legal rules—of the law itself—assumes that their content is fixed and ascertainable. The rule of law likewise depends on citizens having advance notice of what they can and cannot do, pursuant to clear, knowable directives. Legal scholars expend enormous energy pontificating about the appropriate techniques judges should apply in the course of constitutional interpretation: textualism, originalism, and so forth. Libertarian theorists argue strenuously that judges must be given greater authority—through “judicial engagement”—over the political branches. Each day, lawyers across the country trot off to court, briefs in hand, hoping to convince a black-robed judge–enthroned behind a raised, magisterial bench—that the relevant legal rules, properly construed, compel a ruling in favor of their client.

  • Prosecutorial Collusion in the Fourth Estate: Anatomy of a Witch Hunt, Part 4

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Mark Pulliam analyzes the baseless and politically-motivated prosecution of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, exploring the disturbing collusion between the news media and the special prosecutors.

  • Citizen journalist arrested for scooping police

    By David Yates |
    LAREDO – A citizen journalist and blogger was recently arrested for releasing the name of a border patrol agent who committed suicide before the police could put out a press release.

  • Citizens consider legal action against Jefferson County Drainage District Seven over Harvey flooding

    By Olivia Olsen |
    &&& PORT ARTHUR – Jefferson County Drainage District Seven (DD7) has come under fire in the wake of Hurricane Harvey as many citizens point to the allegedly failed system for partial fault in the unprecedented flooding Houston received less than a month ago.

  • Let’s Bust Some 21st Century Trusts

    By Mark Pulliam |
    During the Gilded Age, so-called “captains of industry” such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan led an industrial revolution that transformed the nation with technological innovation, creating for Americans unparalleled improvements in the average standard of living and amassing great personal fortunes in the process. The spectacular success—and enormous power—of these newly minted tycoons earned them the sobriquet “Robber Baron,” even as their ruthless business tactics, such as Rockefeller’s cartelization of the oil industry through trusts, fostered new laws to regulate anti-competitive business practices, notably the 1890 Sherman Act. These measures are called “antitrust” laws, an often-forgotten tribute to the dynastic Standard Oil Trust, which at its peak controlled the refining of 90 to 95 percent of all oil produced in the United States.

  • If Republicans Really Want to Drain the Swamp, Here’s How to Do It

    By By: Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Ron DeSantis |
    On Election Day, the American people made a resounding call to “drain the swamp” that is modern Washington. Yet on Capitol Hill, we seem mired in the same cycle of complacency: The game hasn’t changed, and the players remain the same. Thankfully, there’s a solution available that, while stymied by the permanent political class, enjoys broad public support: congressional term limits.

  • SCOTUS to reviews transgender teen’s bathroom discrimination case

    By Michelle de Leon |
    The Supreme Court of the United States is set to make a decision on the socially divisive issue of bathroom policy involving transgender rights. The outcome of this deliberation is anticipated to affect not only the parties of the case, but also those fighting the same battles across the country.

  • How lawyers scare people out of taking their meds

    By Lisa Rickard |
    The television commercial begins simply: “This is a legal alert for the users of Xarelto.” Lawyers, the narrator says, are reviewing claims that the blood-thinning drug can cause “severe bleeding or hemorrhaging, stroke or even death.” If affected, viewers are advised to call a number on the screen. “You may have a case,” the speaker intones.

  • The Beguiling Myth of 'Mass Incarceration'

    By Mark Pulliam |
    It is not surprising that those at opposite poles of the ideological spectrum generally view public policy issues—and proposed solutions—differently. What is surprising is when conservatives adopt the rhetoric of the Left (along with the accompanying narratives, memes, and canards) regarding a subject as important as criminal justice.

  • Recent patent infringement cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas

    By John Suayan |
    MARSHALL DIVISION Aug. 31 Venus Locations, LLC v. Actsoft, Inc. 2:16-cv-00983-JRG-RSP

  • George Will’s Constitution

    By Mark Pulliam |
    George Will has enjoyed a long career as a public intellectual, an especially illustrious one for a Right-of-center figure. For over four decades, Will’s commentary has appeared in intellectual magazines and newspapers including National Review, the Washington Post, and Newsweek. He has many books to his name as well as a widely syndicated newspaper column, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. A Ph.D. from Princeton, he’s also a familiar talking head on television, often sporting a bow tie