AUSTIN – A district judge in Tarrant County is swearing off social media after several posts she made warranted a public warning from The State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
BEAUMONT – Today, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Mitch Templeton’s decision to deny a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought against Texas Farmers Insurance.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals today granting a summary judgment win in favor of an insurance broker in a lawsuit seeking payment of proceeds from a life insurance policy following her husband’s death.
BEAUMONT – A complex case centered on the sale of a hotel is now up on appeal, where justices will decide if Judge Kent Walston, 58th District Court, erred in doling out $100,000 in earnest money to a company that backed out of a sales contract.
HOUSTON – A motion to compel production of documents was denied earlier this week in a suit accusing Boeing and Southwest Airlines of colluding to cover up fatal defects in an aircraft.
We got a great decision this morning in vet speech. This is the case we originally filed in 2013 about Dr. Ron Hines, a Texas veterinarian who gives advice to pet owners around the world via internet.
The national litigation boutique Lehotsky Keller LLP has added Katherine C. Yarger as a partner in Denver, CO. The firm, started Feb. 1, has already grown to ten lawyers across three offices—Washington, D.C., Austin, TX, and Denver—and five of the firm’s lawyers clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court.
BEAUMONT – A Baptist Hospital patient who spilled hot coffee on himself, resulting in a few treatable blisters, wants the Ninth Court of Appeals to reverse a summary judgment ruling in favor of the health care provider.
BEAUMONT – A final judgment was recently entered in a lawsuit that resulted in a $113 million jury verdict against United of Omaha Life Insurance last month.
BEAUMONT – Entergy is looking to appeal a summary judgment loss in a lawsuit brought by two men claiming they were injured by an energized power line while navigating Hurricane Harvey floodwaters.
HOUSTON — A federal judge has signed an order distributing over $24 million to royalty owners and the lawyers that represented them in a six-year battle over improperly paid oil and gas royalties.
AUSTIN – Lone Star attorneys who object to how the Texas Bar spends the mandatory dues it collects are left “on the hook to fund ideological activities” they do not support, according to an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit yesterday.
