From U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro to failed gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, Democrats have begun to poke through the red tarp blanketing Texas and emerge on the national scene.
During this election season, the race for governor and the millions of dollars candidates Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis have spent on their campaigns have captured most of the media attention.
Thanks to a series of tort reforms in Texas, the Dallas emergency room that initially missed the diagnosis of Thomas Eric Duncan’s fatal case of Ebola has layers of protections from malpractice lawsuits.
Even though a judge has once again declared the system Texas uses to fund its public schools is unconstitutional, the state’s attorney general is not giving up his fight.
When we think of contagions, we generally think of diseases and the symptoms by which they manifest themselves, the methods by which they spread, and the policies and procedures (such as quarantine and vaccination) used to contain them.
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – A Texas defense attorney recently said that as asbestos litigation changes, the laws governing legal causation must also change – and the recent Bostic decision from the Texas Supreme Court is a prime example of that change despite the fact that it is not having a nationwide impact yet.
A Texas judge is ready to dismiss more than a 1,000 asbestos and silica cases for failing to have medical reports filed by a Sept. 1 deadline, but the plaintiffs’ attorneys say that deadline is unconstitutional.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – By the end of August, Attorney General Greg Abbott had more than $35 million in his war chest appropriated for his run at governor.
State District Judge John Dietz has declared that the system used to fund public schools in Texas is unconstitutional, the same ruling he made on the subject more than a year ago.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – On Monday morning, state Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, sent out an email to supporters notifying them of the release of the campaign’s first television advertisement.
BEAUMONT (Legal Newsline) – Beaumont plaintiffs attorneys are donating thousands of dollars to the re-election campaign of one the local judges who routinely presides over their civil lawsuits.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – While several states across the country have rejected the “every exposure” theory in asbestos cases, the recent Texas Supreme Court Bostic decision stands out due to its “Lohrmann Plus Standard.”
