Last week Texas led the way in filing a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration. Now seven more states have followed the lead, bringing the total to 24 states claiming the president is violating the Constitution.
Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas is leading a 17-state coalition that is suing the Obama administration over the president’s executive action on immigration.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
HELENA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) — Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced Thursday that his state has joined four others in protest of a re-proposed rule regarding the regulation of hydraulic fracturing operations on federal and Indian lands.
RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – A national association representing the interests of trial lawyers has filed a brief that argues against corporate defendants’ use of racketeering laws in lawsuits against plaintiffs attorneys alleged to have committed fraud.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Congressman Eric Cantor’s primary loss to a little-known tea party challenger doesn’t mean the Republican party is necessarily divided, according to the Republican National Committee chairman.
A Beaumont company has been dismissed from a lawsuit claiming the plaintiff was rushed to the hospital after one of his co-workers allegedly shoved a pressurized air hose up his rectum, then turned the machine on full blast, severely damaging his internal organs.
Universal Coin and Bullion seeks money from the Virginia man whom it alleges engaged in defamatory statements against it and accused it of selling coins for more than their worth.Universal filed a lawsuit Sept. 11 in Jefferson County District Court against John Doe.In its complaint, Universal alleges Doe has utilized multiple aliases to anonymously publish and post to third parties June 10, 2014, false
Two Galveston County women say they were hurt when another woman allegedly drove out of a driveway and crashed into them.Virginia Ramos and Dolores Gloria Bautista filed a lawsuit Aug. 21 in Galveston County District Court against Chelsea Leeann Murray. According to the complaint, Ramos was driving an Isuzu Rodeo with Bautista as a passenger in Dickinson in October 2012. As they were stopped in traffic
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House announced last week that President Barack Obama has nominated three judges to fill vacancies in Texas federal courts.
The head of a Texas motorcycle club says a Virginia company has no right to accuse him of trademark infringement. Darren Cole filed a lawsuit against Hard on the Throttle Motorcycle Club Inc. on Aug. 11 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas. Cole says in 2003 he organized a group of leisurely motorcycle riders into the Hands on the Throttle Riderz, a club sometimes referred to
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – In a letter last week, five U.S. senators called for improved patent quality and oversight at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – While several states across the country have rejected the “every exposure” theory in asbestos cases, the recent Texas Supreme Court Bostic decision stands out due to its “Lohrmann Plus Standard.”
In a recent article, a former Delaware judge recalled an asbestos case involving Beaumont’s Brent Coon & Associates that demonstrates the need for more transparency in asbestos litigation.
Attorney Kelly Gordon Rogers of Frisco has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing more than $1 million from investors in fraudulent oil and gas ventures.
