HOUSTON – Democrats believe they finally have a shot at reclaiming the Texas House in 2020, a bid for dominance that may start with a win in the rapidly approaching special election for HD 28 – a race that has apparently drawn the attention of influential people living outside of the state.
HOUSTON -- A Texas appeals court refused Oct. 15 to dismiss a defamation case against two people who accused a Houston woman of being a member of a top-secret Viet Cong scheme to scam locals.
HOUSTON – A day before the successful censure vote, Michael Wolfe filed suit against the Harris County Department of Education in an attempt to stop the board from branding him a sexual harasser.
HOUSTON – An officer who identified himself as white in the first years of his employment lost a discrimination claim on appeal, as Texas justices found his Hispanic heritage was in dispute.
I have reminisced at length about my student days at the University of Texas School of Law (here), and also expressed concern about the leftward drift of the Texas Law Review, on whose editorial board I served during 1979-80 (here). Recent events have only heightened my concerns (here). Specifically, on February 7-8, 2019, the TLR is co-hosting (with the left-leaning American Constitution Society) a constitutional law symposium at the law school, entitled “Reclaiming—and Restoring—Constitutional Norms,” that appears to be little more than an anti-Trump political rally. The announcement is here.
In 2009, millionaire Texas attorney Mark Lanier filed suit against Facebook, alleging that the social networking site had violated the privacy of users who voluntarily signed up to share personal information about themselves.
HOUSTON – PAE Applied Technologies, LLC is accused in a state district lawsuit of using a man’s illiteracy in technology as a reason to fire him for his age, recent Harris County District Court records show.
BEAUMONT – Since 1989, Judge Donald Floyd, the first African American elected official at the Jefferson County courthouse, has presided over the 172nd District Court.
DALLAS - The Law Offices of Joseph Malley has announced that the firm has been named a 2018 Elite Trial Lawyers finalist by The National Law Journal in the area of Privacy & Data Breach area of law.
AUSTIN – A former executive assistant with the state’s highest appellate court for criminal cases recently initiated legal action last month on claims she was wrongfully terminated for her usage of social media.
HOUSTON – The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is suing a local university president for infringing its First Amendment rights in relation to comments made on social media, per recent Houston federal court records.
BEAUMONT – Nearly everyday, the Southeast Texas Record posts articles covering area civil litigation proceedings on Facebook. However, it seems if a trial lawyer wants to share a Record story, he or she could face sanctions.
HOUSTON – The world’s most popular social media Web site is the target of a Texas man’s class action lawsuit claiming it negligently failed to protect its user data.
BEAUMONT – After five days of deliberations, a Jefferson County jury failed to reach a verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by an area couple that lost their son when he killed himself while under a suicide watch.
