The owner of three Port Arthur properties is being threatened with foreclosure for allegedly not making payments on a loan for nearly five years. Lillian Wilson, an accounting and bookkeeping company, filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court on Aug. 25 against Patricia Fairman.According to the petition, Fairman originally borrowed more than $17,000 in August 2009, encumbering two properties
From time to time, I’ve had an opposing party claim that he was going to “wipe his backside” with a legal document like a contract. Rude, yes, but what if a contract was actually written on toilet paper? Would it still be enforceable? If a contract is required to be reduced to writing (and not all of them are), does it matter what it’s written on?
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced an agreement on Wednesday with a Houston-based entity that allegedly falsely claimed to be an accredited educational institution.
Amid controversy, Judge Layne Walker has announced that he will not run for reelection, opening the door for hopeful contenders, such as attorney Langston Scott Adams, to file their candidacy for the 252nd District Court.
MARSHALL - Three Nacogdoches County residents have filed a lawsuit claiming they suffered severe injuries when their vehicle was rear ended by a tractor trailer.
GALVESTON - A lawsuit filed over a 34-year-old Deer Park woman's 2011 death in an auto-pedestrian accident in Galveston came to a quick end, according to court records.
Law firm consultants like to throw around terms like “value added billing” and “alternative fee arrangements” in describing creative ways for lawyers to be compensated by their clients. But long before the billable hour, the flat rate, or the contingency fee, lawyers would make use of the barter system like anyone else. Even Abraham Lincoln accepted food and livestock periodically as payment for legal
A suit filed locally by Alice Sorrells, who claims she was injured when the limo in which she was riding rear-ended the hearse in front of her, has been transferred to Washington County.
The U.S. Constitution gives citizens the right to change the government through elections, but does not provide the right to walk away from the Union, said the White House Monday in response to a Texas petition seeking secession.
Whenever I'd watch one of those TV shows with a legal theme, like "Boston Legal" or "Ally McBeal" (or pretty much anything else springing from the fertile mind of David E. Kelley), inevitably there would be some case, litigant or legal circumstance that would not just strain credibility, but actually make me laugh out loud at how preposterous it was.
Judd CHARLESTON, W.Va. � A man who sits in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, was picked by 41 percent of West Virginia Democrats in Tuesday's presidential primary.
Browning At a March 30, 2007, campaign fundraiser, then-candidate Barack Obama stated "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president, I actually respect the Constitution."
