HOUSTON — A seaman alleges Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has failed to provide him with maintenance and cure for the injuries he suffered while working aboard their vessel.
BEAUMONT - On Friday, a Jefferson County jury returned a verdict of $2,979,523 against a local doctor and physician group in a medical malpractice case after a week-long trial, according to a case summary provided by The Daws Law Firm.
HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee has announced Joseph D. Lawson as the new Director of the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library, a press release states.
BEAUMONT - A Port Arthur woman has received $1.25 million in a settlement for injuries sustained in a tractor-trailer crash in 2020. She was represented by The Ferguson Law Firm, LLP managing partner, Paul ‘Chip’ Ferguson. The case was slated for trial in February 2022 but settled the week prior.
HOUSTON — Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner Partner Brant J. Stogner, and firm attorneys Jennifer O. Stogner, Jonathan D. Sneed, and Soroush Montazari, have filed a lawsuit in Dallas County against the Apartment Complex, its Management Companies, and Atmos Energy Corporation on behalf of the three firefighters who were severely burned and permanently injured as a result of a natural gas explosion at the Highland Hills Apartments in Oak Cliff on Sept. 29, a press release states.
HOUSTON — On Friday, a federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction in Longoria v. Paxton, a lawsuit in which Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other officials over the provision in Texas’s new voting law (SB1) that make it a crime for public officials or election officials to solicit people to apply to vote by mail, a press release states.
HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee today announced a new database that—for the first time in the County’s history—will organize and catalogue Commissioners Court orders and County policies and make those records readily viewable to the public, a press release states.
BEAUMONT – In a case centered on the sale of a hotel, the Ninth Court of Appeals today affirmed a trial court’s award of $100,000 in earnest money to a company that terminated a sales contract.
HOUSTON – Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas denied a petition for mandamus filed by Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton in Harris County’s lawsuit challenging the governor’s ban on mask mandates, allowing Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria to keep in place a policy stating election workers must wear masks in polling places during early voting.
AUSTIN – Legislation aimed at blocking employers from mandating vaccines has blurred the political lines, as many groups that usually support Republican initiatives are standing against the bill.
Lex Machina has expanded its federal practice area coverage by including over 8,000 cases that involve claims under the False Claims Act, as well as related claims under state law.
