Last September, Vidor resident Kenneth Sheppard filed a $5 million lawsuit against the city of Beaumont claiming it took too long to provide him with an incident report after a hit-and-run automobile collision.
Seven years ago, Southeast Texas trial lawyers blitzed the Jefferson County courthouse with a record 700 lawsuits in one month in response to Texas' tort reform laws passed in 2003.
Wortham Hoping to save money, time and rapidly shrinking storage space, Jefferson County Commissioners stressed the importance for all district courts to start implementing the e-filing system during a July 22 budget hearing.
A Jefferson County inmate is asking a Beaumont judge for a new trial -- not for his criminal charges, but his civil suit against the jail's medical providers.
While the U.S. economy may have sputtered a bit last year, Southeast Texas trial lawyers kept busy in 2009, filing 2,601 new lawsuits in Jefferson County District Court � upping their '08 totals by roughly 30 percent.
A house in Orange County is among hundreds that were stripped to the frame by the powerful storm surge from Hurricane Ike. A year after Hurricane Ike devastated Texas coastal cities, thousands of suits against insurance companies have washed ashore and been consolidated into a multi district litigation panel.
TYLER -- Shortly after the plaintiff got on the witness stand and started crying, testimony wrapped up Thursday, Sept. 17, in the defamation trial against Patent Troll Tracker blogger and former Cisco attorney Richard Frenkel.
Boxes full of asbestos case files are stacked up at the Orange County Courthouse. It's possible that if a person were to lay the asbestos lawsuits filed in Southeast Texas in the early 1990s in a straight line, he or she could build a sidewalk between the Jefferson and Orange courthouses twice over.
After a round trip through Texas' highest courts, a case over a business owner who wants to keep his attorney's hands out of his settlement landed back in the court where it all began for a new trial.
Ruling that a case tried in the wrong county is "never harmless," justices on the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals reversed an $8.2 million verdict levied against Union Pacific Railroad on July 16.
After a round trip through Texas' highest courts, a case over a business owner who wants to keep his attorney's hands out of his settlement has landed back in the court where it all began.
After 15 years, Adele Vokolek, deputy clerk, is retiring from the Jefferson County District Clerk's Office. At the Jefferson County District Clerk's Office, whenever an attorney needs to file papers, a juror needs a form signed or a resident wants to look up a lawsuit, it is usually Adele Vokolek that gives them a hand.
Texas Supreme Court Last month, the Record reported on an appeal filed by a business owner who wanted to keep his attorney's hands out of his settlement.
Blevins The financial sector isn't the only industry in decline. The number of lawsuits filed yearly in Jefferson County is also in remission, with trial lawyers filing 600 fewer suits in 2008 -- cutting asbestos filings in half.
Jefferson County District Clerk Lolita Ramos and her staff held their annual Christmas party on Dec. 22, where the holiday cheer was just as plentiful as the daily legal filings.
Judge Donald Floyd With Christmas around the corner, the Jefferson County District Clerk's Office will suspend jury summonses for the next two weeks. However, there will be no shortage of proceedings for Judge Donald Floyd this holiday season, as juries have already been empaneled for two trials in the 172nd District Court.
In the three years since Hurricane Rita struck, thousands of lawsuits have been filed in Golden Triangle courts. And now with Hurricane Ike in the rear view mirror, Jefferson County is expecting Ike suits to eclipse Rita-related filings.