HOUSTON - Texas companies were ordered to pay out $3,703,058,833 stemming from nuclear verdicts in 2023 – the second-highest statewide total across the nation, according to a Marathon Strategies report.
DC – Federal workers with naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19 have filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. government, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, the group designated to act as the intermediate enforcer of the executive order mandating that all federal employees get vaccinated, a press release states.
HOUSTON – In the month of October, State Farm Lloyds settled several insurance lawsuits housed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, court records show.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton is pleased with the district court’s decision to issue a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration after they failed to detain dangerous criminal aliens, a press release states. This is the latest of series of immigration wins against the federal government for the state of Texas.
HOUSTON — A federal judge has signed an order distributing over $24 million to royalty owners and the lawyers that represented them in a six-year battle over improperly paid oil and gas royalties.
HOUSTON - A pediatrician has filed a brief in opposition to a federal magistrate’s recommendation to dismiss her lawsuit against a state judge alleging racketeering and estate trafficking of her 91-year-old mother who died under court-appointed guardianship.
HOUSTON – A notice of appeal has been filed in regards to a federal judge’s recent decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Houston Methodist – litigation brought by hospital employees over a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
HOUSTON — A federal judge has approved a class action settlement, including $24.4 million in a cash fund to resolve litigation against Repsol Oil and Gas USA, LLC, formerly Talisman Energy USA, Inc., for royalty owners’ claims that the company improperly allocated production volumes and underpaid owners for wells operated in the Eagle Ford shale basin in South Texas.
The White Collar Defense & Special Investigation Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continued its strategic expansion with the addition in Houston of Vernon Lewis as a shareholder.
HOUSTON – A case management plan was recently entered in a lawsuit brought by a woman alleging that a “colorful object” protruding from a Target store shelf injured her because it was “camouflaged” by other colorful items.
HOUSTON - A federal judge is set to rule on whether to dismiss a physician’s lawsuit against a Harris County probate judge who allegedly turned a blind eye to the estate trafficking and elder abuse of her 91-year-old mother who was under a court-appointed guardianship when she died.
HOUSTON - The Satanic Temple (TST) recently filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that certain Texas-mandated abortion restrictions violate the religious liberty of its adherents.
HOUSTON - U.S. District Judge Susan Hightower has granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ (TDFPS) unopposed motion to stay discovery in litigation involving a physician executive who alleges the state agency violated her equal protection and due process rights under the U.S. Constitution.
HOUSTON - A federal judge is set to rule on whether to dismiss a physician executive’s complaint against a Harris County probate judge regarding the will of her guardianized mother who died while a Ward of the state.
