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Texas House passes 3-D breast cancer screening bill
ADDISON – The Texas House of Representatives passed a new bill on May 5 requiring insurance companies in Texas to cover 3-D mammograms for breast cancer screening and diagnosis. -
Texas House passes hailstorm lawsuit abuse bill
AUSTIN – Voting mostly along party lines, the Texas House tentatively passed H.B. -
Texas House names building in Capitol Complex to honor president George H. W. Bush.
AUSTIN - The Texas House of Representatives on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of HCR 141, by Representative Jim Murphy (Houston) directing the Texas Facilities Commission to name a building at 1801 Congress Avenue after the 41st President of the United States, George H. -
Federal judge rules Texas discriminated when Passing 2011 Voter ID bill
CORPUS CHRISTI – On April 10, a U.S. -
Lone Star Justice
Is Texas’s attorney general a corrupt officeholder or an innocent official being railroaded by political rivals? -
TLR announces addition of Sheets and Hobbs to outside legal team
AUSTIN – On Feb. 6, Texans for Lawsuit Reform announced the addition of former Texas State Rep. Kenneth Sheets and former Texas Supreme Court General Counsel Lisa Bowlin Hobbs to its outside legal team. -
SCOTUS declines to hear Texas voter ID case
Washington, D.C. – On Jan. 31 the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will not hear arguments at this time over Texas’s photo ID law, which the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down as racially discriminatory last summer. -
Texas House to hear testimony on mass storm lawsuit impact
AUSTIN – Next month, members of the Texas House of Representatives will hear testimony on the trend of mass litigation that now follows every storm strike within the Lone Star State. -
Paxton: North Texas Water District members likely can't remove directors before term expires
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently issued an opinion on whether an appointing member city’s governing body may remove a director it has appointed to the North Texas Municipal Water District without cause during that director’s term. -
Akerman adds 30 lawyers from Beirne Maynard and Parsons
HOUSTON – Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm with offices across the United States, recently added 30 lawyers from the major international firm Beirne Maynard and Parsons. Akerman LLP is well known for work in the financial services sector. -
Hailstorm suit reform on the agenda for Texas House candidate
Overwhelmed by thousands of lingering hailstorm lawsuits, Hidalgo County recently earned the title of “Judicial Hellhole,” bestowed by the American Tort Reform Association. -
Texas Rep. Huberty seeks re-election, tort reform group endorses
By DAVID YATES On June 24 state Rep. Dan Huberty, R- Humble, announced his intention to run for re-election for District 127 of the Texas House of Representatives. “It has been my honor to serve the taxpayers of District 127 for more than five years,” said Huberty. -
Ford Nassen welcomes attorney JD Holzheauser to Austin office
AUSTIN – Ford Nassen is pleased to announce that JD Holzheauser has joined the firm’s Austin office as an associate. -
Mostyns inject $200K into coffers of former judge seeking Texas House seat
GALVESTON (Legal Newsline) – The law firm that profited the most from insurance suits in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike is funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into the war chest of the former judge who presided over the lion’s share of the litigation. -
Paxton a ‘weak’ candidate for Texas AG benefiting from GOP reign, professor says
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – Texans are no stranger to droughts, especially Democrats who run for state offices in the Lone Star State. -
TLRPAC endorses state Sen. Glenn Hegar for Texas Comptroller
Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC today endorsed state Sen. Glenn Hegar for Texas Comptroller. -
Creighton wins District 4 Senate seat in runoff
After a special runoff election on Tuesday, Jefferson County residents will have a new senator representing them in Austin. -
District 21 candidates share views with local media
In 2012, Judy Nichols stood up at a town hall meeting in Beaumont and said she could not expand her business because of the costs of the Patient Affordable Care Act. -
Galveston judge Susan Criss resigning, plans run for Texas House
GALVESTON - A local state district judge is leaving the bench to run for another public office. -
Report looks at reforms 10 years later
Ten years ago, Texas had one of the lowest doctor-to-citizen ratios in the country. But after reforms to the state’s civil litigation system, the number of licensed physicians in Texas has doubled, according to a recent report on the results of tort reform.