SHERMAN - A spinal cord injury victim is suing an Allen shopping center and a Mexigo restaurant for failing to maintain the center in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Every year, it seems there are high-profile civil liberties lawsuits in which municipalities are criticized for supposedly blurring the lines between church and state with Nativity scenes on government property. But agitating for equal time for “Festivus,” the made-up holiday immortalized by TVs “Seinfeld”?
HOUSTON - Two former employees with the Houston Police Department Crime Lab have filed suit against Harris County, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos and Harris County Assistant District Attorney Rachel Palmer in response to alleged "retaliation for their protected speech and association."
GALVESTON - Friendswood resident Felix Antonio Trevino is suing Santa Fe local Oscar Ochoa Gracia over an auto collision in Texas City two years ago, recent court documents say.
GALVESTON - Alleged communication problems have prompted an attorney in a lawsuit arising from a October 2009 motor accident which purportedly caused a miscarriage to submit a motion for withdrawal of counsel, recent court records show.
SHERMAN - A Plano man has joined the multi-district litigation against the manufacturers of knee replacement devices, claiming that his device was defective.
SHERMAN - In an effort to bring a Plano shopping plaza and a restaurant into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, a disabled woman has filed a lawsuit that claims the areas are discriminating against the disabled through architectural barriers.
Judges from around the country engage periodically in what's called "creative sentencing." Some legal observers criticize such punishments as forms of public shaming taking us back to the days of Puritans putting people in the stocks.
GALVESTON - A suggestion of death was entered into a Brazoria County man's lawsuit over a two-vehicle accident last year near a Texas City fast food restaurant.
GALVESTON - Ambar Rangel claims Michael F. Padula and Tug and Deby Jackson inflicted approximately $40,000 in damages in connection to a roofing project in Galveston.
