Cold weather isn’t the only thing making its way from Canada to Southeast Texas as oil began flowing through southern portion of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline.
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – Knowing that it would be next to impossible to elect a Democrat, trial lawyers are now financing the political campaigns of Republicans seeking to usurp Texas’s current Supreme Court justices, according to a legal reform group.
As her mother slipped the black robe onto her shoulders, Leanne Johnson became the first female justice on the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals in Beaumont.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – With early voting around the corner, three out of the four Texas Supreme Court justices up for reelection this year will face competition from members of their own Republican party in the March primary.
AUSTIN – The State of Texas has become the nation’s largest state to implement a mandatory electronic court filing (e-filing) system designed to digitize court filings.
Every two years, the Houston Bar Association asks its members to evaluate members of the judiciary that serve in Harris County, as well as the Supreme Court of Texas and the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Dallas Metrocare Services, a public nonprofit organization that provides mental health care, will get to argue its plea to the jurisdiction after all – thanks to a recent Texas Supreme Court ruling.
United Scaffolding will have to wait a few more months before attempting to convince a jury -- for the second time -- that plaintiff James Levine was the one at fault when he fell from a scaffold and injured himself.
For the second time, United Scaffolding will attempt to convince a jury that plaintiff James Levine was the one at fault when he fell from a scaffold and injured himself.
After serving more than 10 years on Texas’ highest court, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson is now taking his appellate experience into the private sector by joining a boutique law firm.
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has filed a ruling withdrawing a previous opinion on a lawsuit against insurance companies that provided coverage to companies at the center of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill.
The state’s first African American chief justice, Wallace Jefferson, has announced he will step down from his seat on the Texas Supreme Court at the end of the month.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) — The Texas Supreme Court last week upheld a jury verdict requiring an insurer to pay more than $6 million in costs to a homebuilder that voluntarily replaced defective imitation stucco siding in hundreds of houses.
A Texas appeals court has ruled that a Beaumont judge did not err when he granted a foreign company’s petition to condemn land for the construction of a crude oil pipeline.
Starvin Marvin’s Bar and Grill has dismissed the city of Beaumont and Mayor Becky Ames from its lawsuit over a noise ordinance aimed at silencing live music at the establishment.
