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Morgan Lewis’s James Nortey Named Outstanding Diversity Champion by Houston Business Journal.
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HOUSTON – Blacks Lives Matter: Houston and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, along with six other organizations, have called for the suspension and removal of the 209th District Criminal Court Judge Michael McSpadden for comments made in a Feb. 23 Houston Chronicle report the groups claim show racial bias.
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Texas' attorney general is pleased the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case after all about whether Texas must force private drivers’ license training schools to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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A Harris County man is suing over claims his son was injured during a mental health crisis when detained by police.
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An order of dismissal was recently filed in suit claiming the bathroom in a fast food restaurant was wheelchair inaccessible.
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AUSTIN – The Texas Access to Justice Foundation (TAJF) has announced grants, totaling more than $426,000, to 11 nonprofit organizations that will help fund legal aid services for Texas veterans.
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A wheelchair-bound woman claims she was unable to access Ace Cash Express without the help of other patrons.
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A woman who uses a wheelchair for mobility is suing after she was unable to enter a car dealership. Oralia Diaz filed suit July 24 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas against DealerTrack Inc., doing business as King of Cars.According to the complaint, Diaz suffers from mobility issues as a result of polio at a young age. She was visiting the defendant's car lot at 3401 Spencer
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A woman who requires a wheelchair for mobility is suing a Tyler healthcare facility after a doctor allegedly refused to allow her to use a personal care attendant to help her perform a urinalysis test.
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A woman is suing over claims the bathroom in a fast food restaurant was inaccessible with her wheelchair.
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TYLER- A deaf man has filed a lawsuit against a Tyler medical center for failing to provide an interpreter so that he could be informed about the medical status of his wife.
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HOUSTON - Complaining a restaurant at which she frequently dined no longer accommodates the disabled, Oralia Diaz pursues legal action.
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TYLER - A hearing-impaired woman has filed a lawsuit against a Longview hospital claiming it failed to provide an interpreter.
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Thomas WASHINGTON � Texas prison keepers interfered with Harvey Sossamon's exercise of religion, but the state doesn't owe him a cent, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled on April 20.
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Sharon Keller AUSTIN(Legal Newsline)-The presiding judge of the highest criminal court in Texas has been charged by the state judicial ethics commission.
