Nine months after the Great Freeze of 2021, after a full legislative session, three special sessions, resignations from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and a complete leadership turnover at the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC), the powers that be in Austin have still not learned the right lessons or taken sufficient steps to prevent a repeat of that unnecessary disaster.
HOUSTON -- Attorney Brent Coon, founder of Brent Coon & Associates, announced that his firm has filed more than 1,500 cases on behalf of victims of the Travis Scott Astroworld Music Festival tragedy, more than doubling the total amount of cases filed by all firms against Scott and other defendants, a press release states.
MOUNT PLEASANT - On Nov. 22 a jury rendered a total award of $730 million to the survivors of Toni Combest, a 73-year-old great-grandmother who was killed in a 2016 collision with an oversize-cargo truck hauling a propeller for a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine, a press release states.
AUSTIN – By attacking states with frivolous lawsuit, the Biden Administration has weaponized the Department of Justice into an arm of the Democrat political party, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability.
AUSTIN – “Bring it” – that’s what Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted once he got word the U.S. Department of Justice had filed suit against Texas over the state's election integrity law.
AUSTIN - Attorney General Paxton and several allied states and companies sued the Biden Administration for its illegal and unconstitutional vaccine mandate imposed on private businesses, a press release states.
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently determined Gov. Greg Abbott’s petition for mandamus challenging a temporary restraining order on his mask mandate executive order is now moot.
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $290 million statewide opioid settlement agreement with Johnson & Johnson to resolve opioid-related claims.
AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Zina Bash and reappointed Evan Young to the Texas Judicial Council for terms set to expire on June 30, 2027, a press release states.
AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton is applauding a recent Texas Supreme Court decision to temporarily stop enforcement of San Antonio ISD’s vaccine policy requiring that all its employees be vaccinated for COVID-19.
HOUSTON – Many Texas politicians are up in arms over Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting vaccine mandates by any entity. However, one Houston attorney says the order isn’t exactly stopping businesses from requiring the jab.
AUSTIN – Put simply, two trade associations are arguing that the Texas government can’t tell Twitter and YouTube what videos to post or Facebook and Google what content to favor.
A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a trial, but certainly such drastic actions wouldn’t occur in a modern society, right?
As someone who lived in California and Texas for nearly my entire adult life, I read Kenneth P. Miller’s new book, Texas vs. California (2020), with considerable anticipation.