Justice Charles Kreger BEAUMONT � Twenty years after a jury sent Andrew Sawyer Weller to a mental hospital instead of prison for killing his parents, Weller has lost a bid for freedom.
BEAUMONT - Deep South Crane and Rigging Company, defending itself against lawsuits in Jefferson County over a crane collapse in Houston, seeks to transfer the cases to Harris County.
Brad Allen BEAUMONT � When Brad Allen, attorney for GuideOne Insurance, pleaded to delay a trial because expert witness Mark West lay in a hospital bed after he was thrown by a horse, the hospital had already sent West home.
BEAUMONT � For seven years Naomi Johnson has tried to prove she killed Terry Boulwen in self defense, and the Ninth District appeals court in Beaumont will let her keep trying.
Chief Justice Steve McKeithen BEAUMONT � Lori Cunningham Pinto, who sued two doctors for allegedly sewing her ureter shut, can't sue a third doctor for failing a few days later to break the stitches, the Ninth District appeals court in Beaumont decided on Oct. 9.
Umphrey BEAUMONT, Texas � Pictures of Southeast Texas attorney Walter Umphrey's 70th birthday party bear closer resemblance to paparazzi shots at a Hollywood extravaganza than a celebration of an accomplished law partner.
BEAUMONT, Texas-Case No. B-126,986, filed in the District Court of Jefferson County, Texas was just one of hundreds of thousands of similar cases filed over a period of 30 years on behalf of plaintiffs injured from exposure to asbestos.