As readers of "Legally Speaking" know, I have a fondness for chronicling some of the oddities that pervade the legal system, to the point of recognizing some of the strangest moments in a year-end wrapup.
Walter Umphrey, left, with Lamar University President James Simmons at the naming of the Provost Umphrey Stadium. Beaumont attorney Walter Umprhey's name keeps popping up all over Texas, and not just in the courtroom. When the Lamar University football team returns to the gridiron two years from now it will be in the newly named Provost Umphrey Stadium.
Sam Houston, Democratic candidate for the Place 7 seat on the Texas Supreme Court, met with supporters in Beaumont on July 31. Campaigning on a platform that the current court is too favorable to corporate defendants, the Democratic nominee for justice of the Texas Supreme Court Place 7 stumped in Beaumont Thursday, July 31.
Tommy DeVito, left, with Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio of the Four Seasons at the Broadway opening of 'Jersey Boys.' The widow of a Beaumont attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against one of the founding members of the singing group the Four Seasons, alleging her husband's manuscript was the basis for the hit Broadway musical, "Jersey Boys."
Del Lago Resort in Conroe AUSTIN � In a case from "Houston's playground," the Texas Supreme Court must decide whether to hold a bar owner liable for injuries from a brawl.
Later this month, President Bush will present a Congressional Gold Medal, the legislative branch's highest civilian award, to Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey of Houston. I was proud to join Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the Texas delegation in sponsoring this latest honor for our state's most famous medical doctor.
H.E.B. on East Lucas Not wasting anytime, Daniel Lee Jones filed a personal injury lawsuit against H.E.B. Grocery Co. three weeks after he slipped and fell at the East Lucas store.
MARSHALL � After losing their daughter in an auto accident, an East Texas jury awarded the Frazier family $24 million in a trial against the car's seatbelt manufacturer. However a federal judge has now reduced those damages by almost 40 percent.