SHERMAN, Texas—Today, a federal jury ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 in damages after a SWAT team destroyed her McKinney, Texas, home while pursuing a fleeing fugitive in July 2020. The ruling is a victory for Vicki, who joined forces with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit in March 2021, after the city refused to pay for the damage that had been caused.
DALLAS — O’Melveny advised publicly-traded Matador Resources Company, an independent energy company (NYSE: MTDR), in its agreement for one of its wholly owned subsidiaries to acquire Summit Midstream Permian, LLC, which owns the Lane Gathering and Processing System of publicly-traded Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP), for US$75 million, a press release states.
AUSTIN - A class action complaint recently brought against Tesla is accusing the company of violating the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by terminating workers without providing sufficient notice.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court held on Friday that a trial court erred in compelling disclosure of confidential drug-test records of UPS employees who are non-parties in a wrongful death lawsuit against the company.
HOUSTON - The First Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling denying a plumbing company’s motion to compel arbitration, concluding that the company waived its right to arbitration.
AUSTIN –Today Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, a press release states.
DALLAS – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has announced that in the 2022 edition of the Chambers USA legal industry referral guide, independent research company Chambers and Partners has highly ranked five of the firm’s attorneys in Texas and ranked Bradley as one of the top firms in the state for the practice areas of Construction and Litigation: General Commercial (Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds).
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether a federal regulation protecting food stamp consumers and state governments in charge of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from lawsuits by retailers also gives technology contractors complete immunity from all state-law causes of action brought by retailers.
HOUSTON — McDonald's employee and father of two alleges the company has failed to fix a direct deposit issue and that he is owned more than $9,000 in back pay.
HOUSTON — A couple alleges "bad fuel" from Sunoco caused their pickup truck to be damaged and that the repair company failed to make the contracted repairs.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a $19.2 million multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company, with Texas receiving a $1.7 million share of that amount.
