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.
BEAUMONT – A Baptist Hospital patient who spilled hot coffee on himself, resulting in a few treatable blisters, wants the Ninth Court of Appeals to reverse a summary judgment ruling in favor of the health care provider.
BEAUMONT – Entergy is looking to appeal a summary judgment loss in a lawsuit brought by two men claiming they were injured by an energized power line while navigating Hurricane Harvey floodwaters.
Jefferson County District Judge Kent Walston is staunchly supported by trial lawyers practicing before him. When he last ran for reelection, unopposed, big contributions came in from attorneys at Provost Umphrey, Reaud Morgan and Quinn, Moore Landry, Weller Green Toups & Terrell, and the Ferguson Law Firm.
BEAUMONT – After denying UPS a trial by jury, Judge Kent Walston, a district judge in Jefferson County, awarded the plaintiffs suing the company $27 million in damages for an auto collision that didn’t occur in Texas.
BEAUMONT – Back in December, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling rejecting an expert report offered by Christus Health Southeast Texas in a lawsuit brought by a patient who delivered her baby into a toilet while admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
BEAUMONT – Judge Mitch Templeton did not err by opting not to grant a new trial in car wreck suit that resulted in a jury awarding no damages, according to an opinion issued by the Ninth Court of Appeals today.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling declining to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an over prescription of anti-depressant medication led to an older man shooting himself in the head.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals has reversed Judge Kent Walston’s award of $1.34 million to Aattaboy Termite and Pest Control – a judgment Walston handed down when the defendants in the case were without representation.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals recently granted a writ of mandamus seeking to vacate a discovery order in a lawsuit between a veterinary clinic and a veterinarian.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling in favor of Eric Yollick, publisher of the Golden Hammer Newspaper, in an open records case against the San Jacinto River Authority.
BEAUMONT – Christopher Charles Valsin failed to convince the Ninth Court of Appeals that a trial court harmed him by admitting evidence in a trial in which the jury unanimously determined beyond a reasonable doubt that he is a sexually violent predator.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals has issued a mandate affirming a ruling dismissing a wrongful termination suit brought against the city of Port Arthur by a former employee.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling affirming a trial court’s ruling granting the Weller Green Toups & Terrell law firm summary judgment.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals today affirmed a ruling dismissing a wrongful termination suit brought against the city of Port Arthur by a former employee.
BEAUMONT – An appellate court has reversed local attorney Brent Coon’s summary judgment win in a malpractice lawsuit accusing him of mishandling a 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill claim.
