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HOUSTON — A real estate agent claims defamatory statements made about her on Nextdoor caused her business loss and harassment.
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Butler Snow Ranked Among Top Public Finance Firms for First Quarter of 2022 by Refinitiv.
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AUSTIN –Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced the departure of Murtaza Sutarwalla as deputy attorney general for legal counsel. Sutarwalla will return to private practice in Houston. He will also serve as outside counsel for the Ken Paxton for Texas Campaign, a press release states.
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WASHINGTON - A petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that members of a mandatory bar cannot be compelled to finance any political or ideological activities with their dues was denied today.
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Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?
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HOUSTON - Today, the 14th Court of Appeals affirmed a $5.8 million final judgment against CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in litigation brought over a property fire.
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AUSTIN - A justice of the peace has been publicly admonished for commenting on social media that he would release anyone brought before him charged with violating stay at home orders during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Music Industry in the Pandemic on March 22, 2022.
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Addressing Burnout in the Legal Profession | Katie Rose Guest Pryal.
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ICYMI - Weekly Roundup March 4, 2021.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.
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AG Paxton Urges Federal Trade Commission to Outlaw Impersonation Scams.
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After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
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HOUSTON - A legal dispute between the Houston Astros and season ticketholders has been put on hold, as the 14th Court of Appeals issued an order yesterday abating the ballclub’s appeal.
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AUSTIN—The State Bar of Texas has announced the results of its statewide 2022 judicial poll.
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The concept of a public nuisance goes back to old English criminal laws making it, for example, a crime to obstruct the king’s highway.
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AUSTIN - A Houston attorney is asking the Texas Supreme Court to “condemn” the asserted “political statements” the Second Court of Appeals made in its opinion concerning ExxonMobil’s climate change case.
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The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
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HOUSTON — A Houston business is facing a suit after one of their food deliverers allegedly became intoxicated while on the job and attacked others.
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HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee today announced a new database that—for the first time in the County’s history—will organize and catalogue Commissioners Court orders and County policies and make those records readily viewable to the public, a press release states.
