CHICAGO – JPMorgan Chase gave preferential treatment to large commercial banking clients seeking emergency loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) at the expense of smaller businesses, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday that will be the subject of a consolidation hearing today by a Joint Panel on Multistate Litigation.
The following cases categorized as "real property - condemnation" 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:
The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by City of Houston against Harris County Flood Control District, JP Morgan Chase N.A., RLR Investments LLC and Robert M. Curry on June 4.
Partner John Lewis, Jr., will lead a discussion of implicit bias and the neuroscience behind it at an upcoming Shook alumni event in Houston, Tuesday, September 24, 2019.
Bradley is pleased to announce that Sabrina N. Jiwani, an attorney in the firm’s Houston office, has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the Texas Minority Counsel Program (TMCP).
HOUSTON – On July 17, Landry’s Inc. petitioned a federal judge to declare summary judgment in a lawsuit against it filed on May 17 by Paymentech and JPMorgan Chase Bank.
DALLAS – The heirs of Max Hopper, a deceased American Airlines executive, have come out more than victorious in their suit against banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. over allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed that a trial court was right in awarding summary judgment to JP Morgan Chase and the Pleasure Pier Homeowners Association in a wrongful foreclosure lawsuit.
During the Gilded Age, so-called “captains of industry” such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan led an industrial revolution that transformed the nation with technological innovation, creating for Americans unparalleled improvements in the average standard of living and amassing great personal fortunes in the process. The spectacular success—and enormous power—of these newly minted tycoons earned them the sobriquet “Robber Baron,” even as their ruthless business tactics, such as Rockefeller’s cartelization of the oil industry through trusts, fostered new laws to regulate anti-competitive business practices, notably the 1890 Sherman Act. These measures are called “antitrust” laws, an often-forgotten tribute to the dynastic Standard Oil Trust, which at its peak controlled the refining of 90 to 95 percent of all oil produced in the United States.
DALLAS – The U.S. government moved to seize the assets of Dallas attorney Tshombe Anderson after Anderson pled guilty Aug. 3 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud in a case that also involves four of his family members.
Nearly 200 patent infringement lawsuits were filed in the federal district for East Texas in a single day – increasing the odds the venue will remain a patent troll favorite for the second year in a row.
