HOUSTON – Today, the 14th Court of Appeals concluded storm attorney Eric Dick and his clients have failed to demonstrate any abuse of discretion in a trial court’s award of sanctions.
What is it with Google? Surely, the creators of the world’s most popular internet search engine are the ultimate opponents of censorship, die-hard defenders of the freedom of speech.
As someone who lived in California and Texas for nearly my entire adult life, I read Kenneth P. Miller’s new book, Texas vs. California (2020), with considerable anticipation.
FORT WORTH – If a judge is going to slap stun cuffs on an accused child predator in his or her courtroom, make sure there’s a record as to why the defendant is zapped three times during the trial – that’s the lesson a Texas judge learned recently.
Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is the tale of a clerk in a lawyer’s office who suddenly decides to stop working. He continues to show up at the office every morning on time and put in a full day, but he doesn’t do any work. Whenever the boss asks him to take on a particular assignment, Bartleby responds, “I would prefer not to.”
HOUSTON – Signing a release form was not enough of a reason to axe a lawsuit brought by a man alleging an opposing player attacked him during a soccer match, according to a recent 14th Court of Appeals opinion.
HOUSTON — A couple claims a contractor they paid failed to complete the emergency repairs on their Houston home and left a hole in the ceiling of their garage.
In 2004 my dad had his first dialysis treatment after flatlining from a heart procedure. We were not sure he would make it through the night as his organs were shutting down, but we were told that dialysis would help and at the time, we wanted to just do whatever was needed to save him. When my dad left the hospital, we were told that his kidneys would require dialysis in the future and his doctors would monitor him.
Nothing better exemplifies the Gramscian “long march through the institutions” than the role of the American Bar Association in transforming America’s legal establishment.
