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HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently determined Gov. Greg Abbott’s petition for mandamus challenging a temporary restraining order on his mask mandate executive order is now moot.
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HOUSTON — A man suing the owners and managers of a Harris County apartment complex alleging over his son's drowning death recently had his lawsuit transferred to Fort Bend County.
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HOUSTON – The 14th Court of Appeals recently wiped an award of attorney’s fees to Lamar Texas LP in a lawsuit brought over an attorney’s alleged unpaid billboard advertisements.
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HOUSTON – Today, the 14th Court of Appeals affirmed that Fort Bend County has governmental immunity from lawsuit brought by man who claims he slipped and fell while he was an inmate.
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HOUSTON – In what might be the first of many, a Fort Bend County man has filed suit against CenterPoint Energy and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas over the power loss caused by Winter Storm Uri.
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HOUSTON – A Fort Bend County man is suing Home Depot for injuries he allegedly received more than two years ago after grabbing a piece of splintered wood.
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HOUSTON - Matt Morgan, a public adjuster, may have lost his bid for a Texas House seat, but his company has prevailed in litigation alleging tortious interference.
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HOUSTON – An end to the COVID-19 crisis is nowhere in sight. And while case filings dipped in the first few months of the pandemic, lawsuit traffic began to rebound in some state courts over the summer.
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HOUSTON — A couple injured in a tractor trailer vehicle accident are claiming the negligence of the driver and his employer.
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HOUSTON – A Texas appeals court panel has upheld a lower court ruling in favor of a medical billing company in a lawsuit against a former employee.
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HOUSTON – A Texas appeals court has ruled in favor of a patient who lost a leg following treatment at a suburban Houston hospital, saying his expert witness' amended report meets requirement under a state liability law.
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HOUSTON – Attorney Steve Kherkher does not have standing to challenge the eligibility of a judicial candidate seeking election to the 333rd District Court, an appellate court recently concluded.
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HOUSTON – There has been a sharp decline in case filings at the Harris County District Court during the pandemic, according to a new statistical survey.
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HOUSTON – Several notable storm attorneys have donated thousands of dollars to Matt Morgan, a Republican seeking to become the next representative for House District 26.
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HOUSTON — A Fort Bend County man alleges ProCollect illegally called him on his cell phone to collect a debt he says he does not owe.
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HOUSTON — A Fort Bend County woman and her daughter allege they were injured when the mother's walker caught on a sidewalk defect in the Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital parking lot.
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HOUSTON — A former Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) senior production engineer alleges the company retaliated against her after she suffered from stillbirth complications and while she was in the process of adopting a special needs child from India.
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HOUSTON – On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court denied attempts by Volkswagen to dismiss lawsuits filed by Harris County, Fort Bend County, the state of Texas and others arising from the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
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HOUSTON — An employee of an Academy store in Rosenberg, who says she suffered a severe back injury, alleges she was forced to lift a more than 160-pound barbeque grill onto a customer's truck due to a company policy that did not allow the use of a forklift.
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HOUSTON — A Fort Bend County woman is suing a Houston hospice, alleging she slipped and fell while visiting her mother.