The following cases categorized as "contract - consumer/commercial/debt" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Sept. 9. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a trial, but certainly such drastic actions wouldn’t occur in a modern society, right?
AUSTIN – The California municipalities bringing climate change lawsuits against oil companies seek to benefit from suppressing Texas free speech and attacking Texas policy, according to ExxonMobil’s recently filed brief.
FORT WORTH – If a judge is going to slap stun cuffs on an accused child predator in his or her courtroom, make sure there’s a record as to why the defendant is zapped three times during the trial – that’s the lesson a Texas judge learned recently.
Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is the tale of a clerk in a lawyer’s office who suddenly decides to stop working. He continues to show up at the office every morning on time and put in a full day, but he doesn’t do any work. Whenever the boss asks him to take on a particular assignment, Bartleby responds, “I would prefer not to.”
The following cases categorized as "contract: consumer/commercial debt" were on the docket in the Jefferson County District Court on Aug. 31. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
HOUSTON – A lawsuit brought against Union Pacific Railroad alleging the company failed to adequately warn them about cancer-causing soil and groundwater contaminants has been allowed to continue, thanks to a recent opinion by the First Court of Appeals.
DALLAS—September 1, 2021—Continuing its expansion in Texas, O’Melveny announced today the arrival of Chambers-ranked trial lawyer Timothy S. Durst as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas office, a press release states.
BEAUMONT – Today, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Mitch Templeton’s decision to deny a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought against Texas Farmers Insurance.
HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee, who has sued the Texas governor and attorney general over the ban on mask mandates, addressed Ken Paxton's statements that neither he nor Greg Abbott can enforce the prohibition of mask mandates (GA-38), a press release states.
In 2004 my dad had his first dialysis treatment after flatlining from a heart procedure. We were not sure he would make it through the night as his organs were shutting down, but we were told that dialysis would help and at the time, we wanted to just do whatever was needed to save him. When my dad left the hospital, we were told that his kidneys would require dialysis in the future and his doctors would monitor him.
Last month, the city of Plano submitted for the approval of state Attorney General Ken Paxton a proposed contingency-fee contract with outside law firms Ashcroft Sutton Reyes, McKool Smith, and Korein Tillery.
WACO – Every couple of years or so a new litigation wave hits the Lone Star State, with Texas attorneys scrambling to sign up local governments for the purpose of filing lawsuits.
