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• 80 companies named in refinery worker's benzene suit

  By Kelly Holleran | Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010 @ 6:10am

  A Groves man blames his lymphoma to his exposure to workplace chemicals and has filed suit against more than 80 companies.

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• Beaumont attorney sues over improvements on cattle farm

  By Kelly Holleran | Monday, Mar 15, 2010 @ 9:37am

  Gilbert Adams III A Beaumont attorney who also owns a cattle breeding farm in Dimmit County claims several companies failed to make promised improvements to his land in exchange for mineral rights.

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• Texas SC agrees to rehear long-running Exxon sabotage case

  By Chris Rizo | Monday, Nov 23, 2009 @ 1:37pm

  Texas Supreme Court AUSTIN (Legal Newsline)- The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to rehear a case in the long-running case over whether Exxon Mobil Corp. sabotaged abandoned wells.

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• This Just In: Recent civil suits filed in Jefferson County District Courts

  By David Yates | Thursday, Feb 5, 2009 @ 5:18am

  Recent civil suits filed in Jefferson County District Courts, Jan. 23-29, 2009

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• This Just In: Recent civil suits filed in Jefferson County District Courts

  By David Yates | Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 @ 5:17am

  Recent civil suits filed in Jefferson County, Jan. 20-23, 2009

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• Texas SC denies another claim by heirs of Padre Island

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Monday, Nov 24, 2008 @ 8:11am

  A recent decision by the Texas Supreme Court shuts down another dispute over the ownership of Padre Island by heirs of Padre Nicholas Balli. The court denied the plaintiffs' claim that a deed signed more than 150 years ago was a fraud.

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• Texas SC reverses award to heirs of Padre Island after decades of legal disputes

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Thursday, Sep 4, 2008 @ 10:39am

  A statue of Padre Nicolas Balli stands in Padre Island, Texas. A recent decision by the Texas Supreme Court may have finally put an end to the decades of legal disputes involving the heirs of the original settler of Padre Island.

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• Texas SC: Landowner cannot seek damages from subsurface trespass

  By Chris Rizo | Tuesday, Sep 2, 2008 @ 11:30am

  AUSTIN(Legal Newsline)-Even if a landowner holds a claim to minerals or water below his property, he cannot seek damages from subsurface trespass, the Texas Supreme Court ruled last week.

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• Harris County man sues 39 companies for father's benzene exposure

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Apr 26, 2007 @ 3:00am

  George Oliver Tanner of Harris County accuses 39 chemical companies of maliciously killing his father with benzene.

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• Exxon Mobil sued over benzene exposure

  By Marilyn Tennissen | Wednesday, Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:00pm

  A local refinery worker has filed suit against Exxon Mobil for leukemia he claims was the result of exposure to benzene.

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