Stories by Carrie Salls on Southeast Texas Record

TYLER – Network-1 Technologies Inc., wholly owned subsidiary Mirror Worlds Technologies, has agreed to a $25 million settlement of a patent lawsuit filed against Apple Inc., which is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

WASHINGTON – House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) will discuss the Republican plan to replace the Dodd-Frank Act at a Heritage Foundation event on Thursday that will also include a discussion led by the authors of foundation publication “The Case Against Dodd-Frank.”

WASHINGTON – Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr believes the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a landmark case that will dictate whether President Barack Obama can bypass Congress to defer deportations and grant temporary work permits for millions of undocumented parents will be important for Texas, no matter which way the high court rules.

DALLAS – Law firm Burt Barr and Associates LLP is asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to reject a second attempt from a client to collect $3.16 million awarded in connection with a sexual harassment lawsuit.

NEW ORLEANS – ExxonMobil Corp. recently asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold a district court order that awarded $3.67 million to the company in an injury claim insurance coverage lawsuit filed against Electrical Reliability Services Inc. (ERS) and Old Republic Insurance Co.

AUSTIN – Texas House Bill 2, which was enacted in 2013 and deals with the safety and availability of abortion clinics in the state, returned to the spotlight earlier this year with arguments made by the Texas Attorney General’s Office before the U.S. Supreme Court in March in defense of a lawsuit directly tied to the provisions of the law.