The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Pro Se and The Landmark at Auburn Lakes, LLC against Edgardo Barajas Frias, Lorena Careaga Cartaya and Pro Se on July 24.
AUSTIN –Attorney General Paxton has announced a settlement against Inuit, the company that markets the popular product “Turbo Tax,” a press release states.
AUSTIN - On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion providing guidance on how courts should apply the periodic payments provision, a key element of the state’s 2003 landmark medical liability reforms, holding that the structure must in some way conform to the evidence presented to the jury at trial.
AUSTIN - A health care provider’s general policies and procedures fall outside the narrow scope of pre-report discovery permitted in medical-liability cases, the Texas Supreme Court recently opined.
Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.
The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Dec. 21. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Dec. 2. 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 Landmark Spring Cypress LLC against Michelle Williams on Dec. 2.
The following cases categorized as "other injury or damage" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Oct. 21. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
HOUSTON — Papa Johns is facing a negligence claim from a former pizza delivery worker who slipped on wet stairs while delivering to a Harris County apartment complex and suffered injuries.
The news over the past few years has offered little to cheer about, but a recent story reporting an unprecedented 43 percent decline in membership in the Boy Scouts of America from 2019 to 2020—from 1.97 million Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts to 1.12 million—was especially dispiriting.
