Lex Machina has expanded its federal practice area coverage by including over 8,000 cases that involve claims under the False Claims Act, as well as related claims under state law.
AUSTIN –Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to fight in court to defend Gov. Abbott’s Executive Order GA-39, which prohibits local entities from enforcing vaccine mandates.
HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee sent the Office of the Texas Secretary of State a demand for documents under the Texas Public Information Act regarding the SOS’s purported “forensic audit” of the November 2020 election in certain counties, including Harris County.
Texas is home to one of the largest, most active law firms in the nation, with more than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions and 117 offices across the state. Its 750 attorneys handle more than 30,000 cases each year, many of them among the most complicated and high-profile legal issues facing the state.
AUSTIN – The 14th Court of Appeals today dismissed two appeals brought in litigation accusing Facebook of permitting sex traffickers to prey on children to proceed.
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.
DALLAS and HOUSTON – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that nine partners in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices have been named to the 2021 edition of Texas Super Lawyers, a press release states.
HUNTSVILLE – Sam Houston State University is the subject of a federal complaint lodged with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture by a national research watchdog after a FOIA report showed that SHSU confessed to the negligent deaths of 10 cows, a press release states.
AUSTIN – Texans are free from local government mandates requiring face coverings and any official denying that immunity may be in violation of the Penal Code, Attorney General Ken Paxton recently opined.
HOUSTON – A filing error has led to no benefits for a man who suffered a heart attack while training to be a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy, according to an opinion issued by the First Court of Appeals today.
AUSTIN – In a letter to congressional leaders, Attorney General Ken Paxton and 22 other attorneys general warn that a reckless piece of legislation under consideration on Capitol Hill would essentially establish the U.S. Department of Justice as a national election czar dictating to states exactly how they must administer their elections.
