The Nederland Independent School District had no luck appealing to the Texas Supreme Court, with the high court recently deciding not to hear NIDS’s petition for review.
A Hardin County couple recently filed a motion for default judgment against the driver who they claim rear-ended the camper they were hauling. Robert Black and Jo Ann Cook filed a lawsuit against Wesley Brumley on May 20, 2013, in Jefferson County District Court. Two years later, the plaintiffs, through the Provost Umphrey law firm, filed a motion for summary judgment on May 28, court records show. The motion asserts the Brumley has failed to answer the claim within the allotted time, entitli
By DAVID YATES A motion for summary judgment was recently filed in a wrongful death suit brought against TransCanada Keystone Pipeline and Sunland Construction. Representing the estate of Kevin Fairman, Ralinda Fairman filed suit against the companies on Sept. 10 in Jefferson County District Court. In May, Sunland filed a motion for summary judgment, asserting there is no evidence to support the plaintiff’s claims. According to the lawsuit, on April 22, 2014, Fairman was working on a pipeline p
Every fisherman's got one, an incredible tale of an almost record catch: the humongous fish that he battled with a small rod or a light line or a baitless hook, that he reeled in, and nearly had netted or in the boat when, suddenly, it broke the line or shook the hook and got away.
On Thursday, the Texas Ninth Court of Appeals axed one of top 100 national jury verdicts of 2013, dismissing Domino’s Pizza from a Beaumont lawsuit brought by Raghurami Reddy.
Beaumont locals Nathan and Tracy Delameter are seeking the depositions of any Beaumont Independent School District employees with knowledge of their 3-year-old son’s death.
A Texas judge is ready to dismiss more than a 1,000 asbestos and silica cases for failing to have medical reports filed by a Sept. 1 deadline, but the plaintiffs’ attorneys say that deadline is unconstitutional.
Nine lawyers from Provost Umphrey Law Firm have been selected to the 2014 Texas Super Lawyers List along with three young attorneys named as Rising Stars.
A Harris County woman has filed suit claiming her insurers failed to pay on a property damage claim. Sandra Ferguson, doing business as Ferguson Firm, filed suit June 17 in Jefferson County District Court against Hartford Funds Distributors LLC and R.O. Williams & Co. Inc.According to the complaint, on Dec. 1, 2011, the law firm at 1122 Orleans St., Beaumont, sustained significant damage while
