HOUSTON – Last August, Brent Coon was hit with a legal malpractice lawsuit alleging the Beaumont attorney botched his representation of a Deepwater Horizon oil spill claimant.
HOUSTON – Anyone considering hiring Frederick McGuire to file a lawsuit on their behalf might also want to consider the attorney has now sued two of his former clients for posting bad reviews of him online.
AUSTIN – A district judge in Tarrant County is swearing off social media after several posts she made warranted a public warning from The State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
HOUSTON – Eric Dick has filed hundreds of lawsuits against insurers over the years, but now it seems the storm attorney is reluctant to actually litigate some of those cases, as another motion to show cause has been filed in another one of Dick’s suits.
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently reversed a ruling granting The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center governmental immunity from a disability discrimination lawsuit.
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.
BEAUMONT – Today, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Mitch Templeton’s decision to deny a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought against Texas Farmers Insurance.
HOUSTON – A docket control order was recently entered in a suit alleging a defectively designed piece of smoked chicken caused Veronica Pendleton to crack her tooth.
HOUSTON – A lawsuit claiming a man died from his injuries after being robbed in the parking lot of a Houston Kroger has been set for trial in May 2022.
HOUSTON – Two years ago, Tammy Tran and her law firm filed a $10 million lawsuit against Sparks Funding, accusing the lawsuit lending company of being a “loan shark” that charged her interest under hidden calculation devices.
HOUSTON – Wayne Dolcefino, a media personality known for exposing public corruption, is suing the city of Galena Park over alleged violations of the Texas Public Information Act.
WACO – Every couple of years or so a new litigation wave hits the Lone Star State, with Texas attorneys scrambling to sign up local governments for the purpose of filing lawsuits.
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently affirmed a summary judgment win favor of Sonic Momentum JVP, better known as Land Rover of Southwest Houston.
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment wins in favor of the defendants in a lawsuit alleging the plaintiff was injured in a parking lot assault.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals today granting a summary judgment win in favor of an insurance broker in a lawsuit seeking payment of proceeds from a life insurance policy following her husband’s death.
PLANO – Anyone born prior to the turn of the century probably remembers the term “hidden cable fee,” a phrase that may soon morph into “hidden streaming fee” as more and more cities across the nation are suing streaming video providers over franchise fees.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND – The 13th Court of Appeals determined yesterday that a lawsuit accusing South Padre Island of keeping Food Trucks from setting up merits oral argument.
BEAUMONT – A complex case centered on the sale of a hotel is now up on appeal, where justices will decide if Judge Kent Walston, 58th District Court, erred in doling out $100,000 in earnest money to a company that backed out of a sales contract.
