Last Thursday, Texas justices seated on the Ninth District Court of Appeals declined to hand plaintiff Ricky Lightfoot, who sued two companies for trespassing on his property, a new trial.
A Jefferson County jury recently found that plaintiff Melissa Stapleton's late husband was the negligent party causing the automobile collision that ultimately killed him.
For the second time in three months, Ninth District appellate judges caught Jefferson County District Judge Layne Walker punishing a criminal too harshly.
Last August, a Jefferson County jury found benefits paid by the city of Port Arthur to one of its employees were not for injuries suffered in an automobile collision as the employee claimed.
What does a Louisiana man with a marsh-buggy boo-boo have in common with a Jefferson County woman with an infected breast tattoo? What do both have in common with a China, Texas, woman assaulted by a peripatetic cow?
Arnold A Jefferson County jury recently awarded a plaintiff more than $4.8 million in damages in a wrongful death trial against Van Dyke's Chesapeake Seafood.
Dugas Justices seated on the Texas Ninth Court of Appeals will entertain oral arguments later this week on whether there was enough evidence for jurors to levy a $1.2 million verdict against Christus Health Southeast Texas.
You've got to wonder about Google. You'd think the American company that created the world's most popular internet search engine would be a staunch advocate for freedom, a resolute opponent of tyranny.
The Jefferson County sheriff's department is being sued for not paying overtime to its employees during a two-week period around the time that Hurricane Ike hit.
Jefferson County corrections officers have filed a lawsuit against the county to obtain compensation for the overtime hours they worked during Hurricane Ike in September 2008.
Two Beaumont residents will spend the next couple of days pleading their case before 12 Jefferson County jurors, as jury selection began Monday, Jan. 10 in the automobile collision trial of Elise Matthews vs. Jerelle Davis.
Claiming a broken step in an unlit stairway caused her to trip and fall, Michigan resident Agnes Standoak has filed suit against a Beaumont apartment complex.
On Tuesday, a Jefferson County jury awarded a plaintiff more than $5,000 for injuries she received in an automobile collision, taking less than two days for jurors to listen to testimony and reach a verdict.