BEAUMONT – A local woman is suing a non-profit organization for exemplary damages because of a trip and fall injury she allegedly sustained two years ago because a step was the same color as the concrete.
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.
GALVESTON – A West Texas pipe distributor has filed a request for disclosure in Galveston County District Court in a lawsuit against Alpha Gamma Onshore, Mantle Oil & Gas LLC and Thomas Kelly.
As the size and complexity of transvaginal mesh MDLs continue to attract considerable attention, so do the details of how some of their claims made it to court.
According to a new report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, which owns this journal, trial lawyers will spend almost $900 million this year in broadcast advertising
The public has every right to watch the details unfold in a recent lawsuit, now unfortunately sealed, against the AkinMears law firm – a suit brought by a former employee that contains serious allegations about its operation.
A professional basketball player who sued 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. in Galveston County District Court last month for an injury he allegedly sustained while exercising at the defendant’s Friendswood location has presented additional claims. Friendswood resident James Blasczyk’s lawsuit was recently elevated to the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division with revisions to the original petition.
The Houston law firm AkinMears allegedly fired its business development officer in order to avoid paying him millions of dollars for the thousands of medical mesh lawsuits he acquired for the firm, according to a recent lawsuit.
A professional basketball player is suing 24 Hour Fitness USA Inc. over injuries he allegedly sustained a few months ago while working out at the company’s Friendswood location, Galveston County District Court records show. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 14 in the Galveston County 56th District Court, plaintiff and Friendswood resident James Blasczyk states he was playing basketball at his hometown’s 24 Hour Fitness club sometime in May when he suffered the injury in question. The suit claims the fa
A criminal justice major is among three students honored by Lamar with the Plummer Award, recognizing the top male and female graduates in Lamar’s class of August 2013.
MARSHALL DIVISION Aug. 4 • Harcol Research LLC v Vitacost.com Inc. Case No. 2:14-cv-00809 Plaintiff Harcol Research is a limited liability company organized in Nevada with a principal place of business in Tyler, Texas. It claims to be the owner of U.S. Patent No. 5,817,364 for a Beverage Containing Alpha-Ketoglutaric Acid and Method of Making. Defendant makes and sells nutritional supplement products,
