The following cases categorized as "contract - consumer/commercial/debt" cases were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on June 4. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has been recognized in the 2019 edition of the prestigious Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
HOUSTON – A Travis County man is suing a local motorcycle parts dealer after efforts to enhance his motorcycle allegedly resulted in a road accident last year, recent Harris County District Court records show.
HOUSTON – A man alleges he was not trying to flee officers in Missouri City after a vehicle crashed but was trying to move away from it because he thought it would explode.
GALVESTON – A Montgomery County man asserts a defective captain’s chair caused him to suffer injuries during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of Panama.
Readers of Law and Liberty may have noticed that I am a fan of Justice Antonin Scalia (for example, here and here). I am also an admirer of Robert H. Bork, whom my colleague John McGinnis has described as “the most important legal scholar on the right in the last 50 years.” Bork was a pioneer in both the field of antitrust law (with his influential 1978 book The Antitrust Paradox) and constitutional law, as the father of what we now call “originalism.” In his seminal 1971 article in the Indiana Law Journal, entitled “Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems,”[1] and in his later best-selling books, The Tempting of America (1990) and Slouching Towards Gomorrah (1996), Bork eviscerated the “noninterpretive” theories of constitutional law that dominated the legal academy in the 1960s and 1970s.
&&& DALLAS – Seventeen attorneys from the law firm of Baron & Budd recently were honored by the National Trial Lawyers, an organization that is comprised of trial lawyers from around the country.
HOUSTON – In a filing last month in New York District Court, General Motors Corp. agreed to settle more than 200 lawsuits related to allegedly defective ignition switches that caused vehicles to stall and prevent airbags from deploying in a crash.
AUSTIN— On March 7 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the U.S. Supreme Court denied Apple’s request to review a lower court decision, clearing the way for the distribution of $400 million to U.S. consumers who paid artificially-inflated prices for e-books.
