Travis County District Court
Recent News About Travis County District Court
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Settlement Averts SCOTX Consideration of Trial Court Setting Remote Jury Trial Over Objection of the Parties
On Monday, November 1 a remote jury trial was scheduled to commence in a Travis County district court. -
TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL: OAG Files Appellate Brief: Former Top Aides Say One Thing Under Oath, Another in Public; Can’t Squeeze Back Into Agency After Failing on the Job
Office of the Attorney General of Texas (OAG) filed an appellate brief with the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals fully debunking a group of former OAG political appointees who had gone rogue and lodged unfounded accusations against Attorney General Paxton. -
WC 4th and Rio Grande files amended petition regarding loan payoff
In a case where WC 4th and Rio Grande, LP, is claiming that LA Zona Rio, LLC, attempted to refuse taking payments on a loan in order to charge improper default interest, WC 4th and Rio Grande recently filed an amended petition in the District Court of Travis County. -
FloSports files sealing motion in suit against Rokfin, wants to cut live stream to public
AUSTIN - A company that specializes in streaming content wants to keep how it goes about doing so from being streamed to the public. -
Records show attorney donated money to judge presiding over case in which he is defendant
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Ray Chester, an Austin attorney who is a defendant in a lawsuit involving the Mitte Foundation, has donated money to the re-election campaign of the judge in the case and was listed on her website as a supporter, according to public records. -
Real estate partnerships waging legal battle against Mitte Foundation over alleged conspiracy to sell assets
AUSTIN – A lawsuit alleging a complex civil conspiracy to essentially swindle assets from two real estate partnerships is being litigated in Travis County. -
Snapka Law Firm sues Texas AG’s Office, seeks to keep congressman’s cut from lawsuit under wraps
AUSTIN – Rather than comply with a decision from the state’s chief attorney, a Corpus Christi law firm sued the Texas Attorney General’s Office – a move aimed at keeping how much trial lawyers, including a sitting member of Congress, profited from a construction defect lawsuit filed by Hidalgo County under wraps. -
Appeals judges affirm lower court's ruling in suit against software company
AUSTIN -- A Texas man could not convince an appeals court to side with him after he was ordered to pay a $10,000 for not obeying orders in his case against a software company. -
Appeals court reverses judgment against insurance company in case involving drunk driver
HOUSTON -- The Texas First District Court of Appeals determined July 16 a lower court didn’t have subject matter jurisdiction in ruling against an insurance company in a negligence case. -
Texas AG sues for access to public records on San Antonio’s ‘discriminatory exclusion’ of Chick-fil-A from its airport
AUSTIN – On Monday, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a petition in Travis County District Court against the City of San Antonio as part of his office’s investigation into the city’s exclusion of Chick-fil-A from an airport concession contract. -
Appeals court affirms $3 million judgment for bank after promissory note dispute
HOUSTON -- The 14th Court of Appeals confirmed April 30 a $3 million judgment in favor of a bank in a guarantor tort claim concerning a promissory note. -
Worker seeks more than $200,000 Infinity Surfaces, Realtex Construction over eye injury
AUSTIN – A Hidalgo County man alleges a piece of tile caused an eye injury on an Alton job site. -
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE: Health care provider sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud
A Deer Park health care worker has been sentenced for falsifying workers’ compensation claims. -
Texas AG aims opioid lawsuit at Purdue Pharma
AUSTIN – During a May 15 press conference, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Purdue Pharma over the marketing and selling of opioids, including OxyContin. -
Supreme Court reverses, remands decision in Texas Clean Air Act case over service deadline
AUSTIN – The Texas Supreme Court reversed and remanded a decision from the 1st District Court of Appeals that dismissed an appeal filed by AC Interests LP against a ruling by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) after the service deadline required by the Texas Clean Air Act passed. -
In Austin, the ADA Lawsuit Mill Grinds On
The Americans With Disabilities Act may be the most widely-abused law in our history, spawning frivolous litigation against employers, retail businesses, and—most recently—spurious claims against websites that allegedly aren’t sufficiently compliant with the ADA. Nationwide, a cottage industry has developed among a bottom-feeding element of the plaintiffs’ bar that specializes in bringing a high volume of cookie-cutter lawsuits against small businesses for technical violations of the ADA, and extorting quick settlements of several thousand dollars each. -
Paxton announces debt relief for students who attended Corinthian College
AUSTIN – More than 4,000 Texan students who were unwittingly part of an alleged scam involving student loans have been released of their requirement to pay back the money. -
Wellbeing Genomics prevails in DNA test trade secret trial
AUSTIN – A Texas jury recently found in favor of plaintiff Wellbeing Genomics Pty in a trade secret lawsuit. -
Companies accused of deceiving consumers with media subscriptions must pay $424,000
AUSTIN – A $424,000 judgment has been handed down in an alleged deceptive magazine and newspaper subscription practice case. -
AG settles with alleged computer scammers, reports they collected millions from consumers
AUSTIN – Two tech companies who allegedly violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act with deceptive consumer practices and purportedly took millions from consumers across the nation have agreed to a settlement, according to a judgment handed down earlier this month.