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Supreme Court candidates land on opposite sides of tort reform issue
Willett Three of the nine justices on the all-Republican court are seeking re-election, Justice Don Willett, Place 2; Justice David Medina, Place 4; and Justice Nathan Hecht, Place 6. -
Jones, Wentworth battle continues in ethics ads
Jones After one of her primary opponents filed an ethics complaint against her, state Senate candidate Elizabeth Ames Jones has shot back with accusations of her own. -
Republican state Senate battle heats up as Wentworth files ethics complaint against Jones
Wentworth State Sen. Jeff Wentworth has filed an ethics complaint against his opponent in the Republican primary, Elizabeth Ames Jones, and her husband. -
Justices to examine $446K attorney's fees award in oil and gas royalty case
Wood Later this month the Ninth Court of Appeals will examine a jury's decision to award a plaintiff's counsel � the only party who ended up substantially profiting from an oil and gas royalty case � more than $500,000 in attorney's fees and court costs. -
Denbury Green Pipeline loses appeal of $444K condemnation judgment
The Denbury Green company website shows this photo of the pipeline construction. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas lost an appeal Thursday when the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed a final judgment awarding damages in the amount of $444,587 in a condemnation proceeding. -
Texas must continue to take the lead on Fracking Regulation
We all know Texas swells with pride. But our state is swelling in many other areas, too � our economy, population and our need for infrastructure and resources are all growing. By now we know domestic natural gas plays a large role in our nation's pursuit of energy independence. -
Abbott asked to challenge new EPA rule
Abbott AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Railroad Commission asked Attorney General Greg Abbott in a letter Tuesday to challenge the federal Environmental Protection Agency's recently adopted Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. -
***FOR PRINT***Abbott asked to challenge new EPA rule
Abbott AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Railroad Commission asked Attorney General Greg Abbott in a letter Tuesday to challenge the federal Environmental Protection Agency's recently adopted Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. -
Insurance company sues over $50K claim
GALVESTON � Bond Safeguard Insurance Co. claims Rebound Resources and Timothy and Dawn Rice failed to indemnify it, recent court documents say. -
Denbury Green pipeline controversy heads to Texas Supreme Court
Photo of construction on the Denbury Green pipeline from the company website. AUSTIN � State Supreme Court justices will review Jefferson County District Judge Donald Floyd's grant of eminent domain power to owners of a carbon dioxide pipeline. -
Only attorneys profit from oil and gas royalty retrial
Wood After two trials and nearly five years of litigation, only the attorneys ended up profiting from an oil and gas royalty case, as jurors recently awarded the plaintiff's counsel more than $500,000. -
Oil and gas royalty retrial starts up
In June 2009, the Southeast Texas Record reported on an oil and gas lease trial, which ended in mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict. -
Munro's suit accuses CenterPoint of fraudulent billing
A Beaumont business claims its natural gas supplier cheated it out of thousands of dollars by failing to inform it of a transportation service that could have drastically lowered its bills. -
New trial of oil and gas royalty case reset for September
Last June, a trial over an oil and gas lease abruptly ended when jurors failed to reach a verdict after four days of fruitless deliberations. -
Climate change policy will kill clean energy
Jones (R) Well, now we know. To no surprise, the biggest government boondoggle in modern times was narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, thanks to some good old-fashioned horse trading. -
Hung jury ends oil and gas royalty case in mistrial
After four days of fruitless deliberations, jurors trying an oil and gas lease case � in which the plaintiff was also the defendant � failed to reach a verdict. -
Land man testifies in oil and gas lease trial
The oil and gas lease trial in which the plaintiff is also the defendant carrying on in Judge Gary Sanderson's 60th District Court continued this week as jurors heard testimony from a local petroleum land man. -
Double stacked trial over oil and gas lease royalties starts up
An oil and gas lease trial in which the plaintiff is also the defendant is now under way in Judge Gary Sanderson's 60th District Court. -
$20 M verdict levied against Samson Lone Star over fraudulent oil lease
Samson Lone Star LP was smacked with a $20 million verdict on Friday, Nov. 14, as 11 out of 12 jurors concluded the company was fraudulently sucking oil and gas out of a Hardin County man's property. -
Valero breaks ground on $2.4 billion expansion project
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), third from left, was joined by other state and local elected officials in Port Arthur on Aug. 13 for the groundbreaking of Valero's $2.4 billion expansion project. As U.S. gas prices continue to climb, the American petrochemical industry is taking steps to increase the nation's refining capacity.