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.
HOUSTON — A jury unanimously found that a Harris County property did not sustain damages due to Hurricane Harvey in 2018 and that Texas Fair Plan Association did not have to pay fees associated with the damages.
HOUSTON – The Office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee (HCAO) announces the launch of its first annual Summer Legal Academy (SLA), a legal training and educational program designed to expose high school students to the path to becoming an attorney, 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 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against Judge Michael Newman, justice of the Probate Court of Harris County.
HOUSTON - A Harris County jury awarded a verdict in the amount of $7,110,000 on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 17 to a local nursing assistant who was injured in 2016 while transferring a bariatric patient from bed to wheelchair at the Courtyards of Pasadena nursing home facility in Pasadena, 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.
HOUSTON -- Attorney Brent Coon, founder of Brent Coon & Associates, announced that his firm has filed more than 1,500 cases on behalf of victims of the Travis Scott Astroworld Music Festival tragedy, more than doubling the total amount of cases filed by all firms against Scott and other defendants, a press release states.
HOUSTON – At a special meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, the Court voted to direct Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee to negotiate a temporary stay of the county’s lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) over the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP).
HOUSTON - The 14th Court of Appeals recently reversed a ruling granting Harris County immunity in a lawsuit brought over an automobile collision with a deputy.
HOUSTON — Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee and dozens of District Attorneys and former Attorneys General, U.S. Attorneys, and law enforcement leaders across the country filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday opposing the Texas abortion law.
HOUSTON – The Harris County Municipal Utility District wants to pursue a lawsuit against MidAmerican, an electricity provider that allegedly charged excessive prices during Winter Storm Uri.
HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee sent the Office of the Texas Secretary of State a demand for documents under the Texas Public Information Act regarding the SOS’s purported “forensic audit” of the November 2020 election in certain counties, including Harris County.
HOUSTON – A filing error has led to no benefits for a man who suffered a heart attack while training to be a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy, according to an opinion issued by the First Court of Appeals today.
HOUSTON – Today, the Harris County Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton regarding GA-38, an Executive Order that attempts to stop local governments and officials from mandating masks, vaccines, and other measures to stop the spread of COVID-19.
HOUSTON – It’s not a nepotism issue for Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee’s father-in-law to keep providing collection services for the county, according to an opinion issued by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
HOUSTON – At a public comment session hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee proposed reinstatement of chemical disaster rules rolled back by the Trump administration, and enhancing rules to address Harris County’s unique vulnerability to chemical disasters.
The Pandemic Liability Protection Act provides COVID-19 liability protections for health care providers, businesses, non-profits, religious institutions, and schools that made good-faith efforts to follow safety protocols during the course of the public health emergency declared by Gov. Greg Abbott.
HOUSTON —The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality held a public meeting two nights ago on a proposed plan submitted by Union Pacific Railroad Company to clean-up an inactive creosote facility located at 4910 Liberty Road in Houston’s Fifth Ward.
