The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Meritage Resiential Partners LLC against Katherine Green on Aug. 29: 'Notice Of Appearance'.
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" cases were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Aug. 23. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Meritage Resiential Partners LLC against Katherine Green on Aug. 23.
BEAUMONT – The Texas Supreme Court has been tasked to determine whether the Beaumont Independent School District has immunity from a wrongful death suit.
Texas’s employment discrimination statute (the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, codified in the Texas Labor Code at section 21.001 et seq.), like its federal counterpart (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. section 2000e et seq.), prohibits discrimination on the basis of enumerated characteristics, including “sex.” Accordingly, an employer is forbidden to treat an applicant or employee differently because of that person’s sex. Without a sex-based nexus, the employer’s conduct may be rude, unfair, obnoxious, boorish, or insensitive, but will not constitute illegal sex discrimination.
DALLAS – Several Texas civil justice groups have endorsed John Browning, a Dallas attorney with nearly three decades of experience practicing law, to become a justice on the state’s most active court of appeals.
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been part of coalitions three times this year that filed friend of the court briefs in federal courts in support of President Donald Trump's executive order, or proclamation, enforcing a travel plan on some nations.
The most decorated U.S. soldier in World War II has finally been honored by his home state. On Oct. 28, Audie Murphy was posthumously awarded the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the Texas Military Forces.
Four months after the Supreme Court reversed a nationwide class action against Wal-Mart alleging the store discriminated against up to 1.5 million female employees, a former plaintiff has initiated a state-wide class action against the retail giant that could include up to 45,000 female Texas employees.
Twelve days after filing a motion for continuance in a suit alleging it was responsible for a man's crushed hand, Motiva Enterprises was non-suited by plaintiff Ron Cushing.
Blevins An asbestos suit naming 14 defendant companies has been filed by a man and his wife, alleging the man's asbestos-related disease was caused by company negligence.
Dallas attorney and Southeast Texas Record columnist John Browning was recently named the winner of the 2009 Burton Award for Distinguished Achievement in Legal Writing.