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Be on guard against solicitations to join a lawsuit
Like all businesses, personal injury lawyers need a product to sell and customers who will buy that product. In the case of personal injury lawyers, the product they are selling is lawsuits –and their customers are each and every one of us as their potential plaintiffs. -
Houston plastic bag makers in litigation over similar names, trademark violations
A Houston plastic bag company is suing a Chicago company for allegedly using a business name it says is too similar to its own trademarked brand.Better Bags Inc. filed a lawsuit Aug. 13 in the Houston Division of the Southern District Court of Texas against Better Bag Corp. According to the complaint, Better Bags has been making and selling plastic bags for use in grocery stores for more than 27 year -
Former employee sues Navigators Group after termination for alleged racial remark
A Houston man is suing his former employer for terminating him under false accusations. -
Lawsuit alleges Booz Allen refused to retain Harris Co. woman because of gender
HOUSTON - Complaining that Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. refused to retain her because of her gender, Harris County resident Anne Buckingham pursues legal action. -
Mexican glassmaker's, court's moves threaten letter, spirit of law
On the eve of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Dallas, May 8-18, more than 15 Texas congressional leaders, including Rep. Kay Granger (R-Fort Worth) and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk urging Mexico's inclusion in this promising trade agreement. -
Take-nothing judgment entered in suit claiming servicer disconnected bike brakes
A final take-nothing judgment has been entered in a suit claiming a Golden Triangle Powersports employee failed to reconnect a bike's rear brakes, causing the owner serious injury. -
Judge grants summary judgment in suit against Beaumont Frame
Powers In December 2007, Carlton Bellard sued Beaumont Frame and Front End Service, claiming the company failed to properly service his truck's brakes and subsequently caused him to rear-end another vehicle. -
City asks judge to reconsider reinstating pothole injury suit
Last December, a Jefferson County judge dismissed a suit filed against the city of Beaumont by Sherry White, a local woman who alleges she was seriously injured after running over a pothole. -
Suit claims defects in tire, vehicle caused fatal rollover
Ammons TEXARKANA, Ark. � While driving a 2000 Ford Explorer on Aug. 11, 2008, Mona Troutman suffered fatal injuries when she lost control of the vehicle and it flipped. -
Family seeks $100 million in punitive damages from Cooper Tire for blowout fatality
David Matthews TEXARKANA -- Texas resident Tammy Ledbetter suffered fatal injuries when the pickup truck she was riding in went into a spin and flipped. Her family believes the vehicle's accident was caused by a "violent blow-out" when the tread separated from the tire and are seeking $100 million in punitive damages for the "wanton and willful recklessness" of Cooper Tire and Rubber Company.