HOUSTON — Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner Partner Brant J. Stogner, and firm attorneys Jennifer O. Stogner, Jonathan D. Sneed, and Soroush Montazari, have filed a lawsuit in Dallas County against the Apartment Complex, its Management Companies, and Atmos Energy Corporation on behalf of the three firefighters who were severely burned and permanently injured as a result of a natural gas explosion at the Highland Hills Apartments in Oak Cliff on Sept. 29, a press release states.
BEAUMONT - The Ferguson Law Firm, one of the area’s leading personal injury firm, has filed suit on behalf of a 40 year old Jasper County man who was severely burned when an oil rig exploded in August 2019.
VICTORIA – Texas mineral rights owners claim an oil company purposefully deceived them for at least two years by manipulating production data, according to a complaint filed in the Southern District Court of Texas, Victoria Division.
As terror rages worldwide, President Barack Obama concluded his tour last week with radical environmentalists from across the globe in Paris for the 21st United Nations climate change conference, while ignoring the most immediate threat to the free world: radical Islamic terrorism.
AUSTIN – Justices at the Supreme Court of Texas must decide whether Houston can enforce an ordinance creating its own air quality agency. The Justices plan to hear oral argument on Sept. 2, over a First District appellate court decision in the city’s favor. The city council passed an ordinance in 2007, requiring owners of facilities within the scope of state law to register with city health officers and pay fees. Sponsors promised to enforce the Texas Clean Air Act better than the state did.
When the city of Denton passed a ban on hydraulic fracturing, the general land office and the oil and gas industry quickly filed lawsuits to stop the ban. Now environmental groups are trying to intervene in the suits.
New rules defining the “common carrier” status of oil and gas pipelines in Texas may help Jefferson County landowners in an ongoing battle over eminent domain.
For the second time, Jefferson County District Court Judge Donald Floyd has declared the Denbury Green pipeline to be a common carrier with the power of eminent domain, despite the fact that the Texas Supreme Court has already overturned that decision once.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – In response to a new Republican PAC targeting women voters, Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic nominee for governor, is making sure female voters are aware Attorney General Greg Abbott defended Prairie View A&M in an equal pay lawsuit filed by a woman.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) — Barry Smitherman, a GOP candidate for Texas attorney general, raised some eyebrows for comments made last week regarding the state’s potential to become independent.
The Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed on Nov. 29 a ruling that denied summary judgment against TransCanada Keystone Pipeline – a foreign company armed with the power of eminent domain.
Wood The Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals has reversed three judgments in an oil and gas royalty case, effectively erasing an award of more than $400,000 in attorney's fees.
