Williamson County
Recent News About Williamson County
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Texans are free from local government mandates requiring face coverings, AG Paxton opines
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. -
Williamson County attorney lacks standing in suit against the county he works for, justices find
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals today affirmed a plea to the jurisdiction dismissing a lawsuit brought by Williamson County Attorney Dee Hobbs, who sought to challenge a policy limiting how much he can pay an employee. -
Texas appeals court says negligence lawsuit can be moved to Williamson County
HOUSTON – A Texas appeals court panel has reversed a lower court’s refusal to transfer a negligence lawsuit from Harris County to Williamson County. -
TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL: OP-ED: Only Reform Will Achieve Results
On Memorial Day, we rightly honor those heroes who fought and died for our freedom. -
Former Petro Safety supervisor alleges he was not paid for overtime work
TYLER — A former safety supervisor with Petro Safety Services alleges he was not compensated for time he worked more than 40 hours per week. -
Customer alleges Little Pappasito's Cantina's negligence caused her to tear hamstring
HOUSTON — A Tennessee woman is suing a Houston Mexican restaurant, alleging she tore her hamstring on the defendant's property. -
Oil and gas company implicated in lawsuit after diabetic worker perishes on the job
HOUSTON – The law firm Hilliard Martinez Gonzalez LLP in Corpus Christi has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Williamson County family whose patriarch perished on the job last November from a “severe and fatal diabetic complication.” -
Paxton opinion: Special assessments related to PACE Act treated similar to real estate taxes
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has stated that contractual assessments related to an act regarding property improvements to decrease water demand and consumption are treated similar to real estate taxes. -
Lawsuit faults Williamson Co. hospital for female patient's fall, brain injury
AUSTIN – After allegedly falling at a Williamson County hospital last year, Travis County resident Ollie Jo Edmondson has filed a lawsuit. -
Safe technician accuses employers of unpaid overtime wages
HOUSTON — A Fort Bend County safe technician is suing a Williamson County business, alleging violation of workers compensation acts in failing to pay overtime. -
Texas attorney general files brief for private property rights
AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an abacus brief to protect private property rights Dec. 13 in relation to the legal protection for an arachnid. -
Reaud Morgan & Quinn sued for legal malpractice
BEAUMONT – The area law firm Reaud Morgan & Quinn has been sued for legal malpractice, hit with a lawsuit accusing RMQ and one of its attorneys of negligently failing to file a claim. -
Abbott appoints Larson judge of 395th Judicial District
AUSTIN – On March 21 Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Ryan Larson of Hutto as judge of the 395th Judicial District Court in Williamson County for a term set to expire at the next general election in November 2016. -
Exonoree to be keynote speaker for the Texas State Bar Association annual meeting
FORT WORTH – A man who served more than two decades in prison for a murder he didn't commit will be the keynote speaker at the State Bar of Texas 2016 Annual Meeting in Fort Worth in June. -
Appeals case dismissed against immigration officers who oversaw contractor convicted of sexual assault
NEW ORLEANS – A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court decision disallowing the dismissal of a lawsuit against two immigration officers for civil rights violations after several detainees were sexually assaulted by a third party contractor. -
Legally Speaking: It's all in the way you phrase it
Let’s face it: how you choose to express yourself matters. The words you choose, the tone you take—it’s all critical to how your message is received. -
Legally Speaking: Still crazy, after all these years
Not long ago, while “talking shop” with several other lawyers, the conversation turned to a colleague’s rather unusual, even foolhardy, strategic choices about how to proceed in a case. -
Texas SC tackles definition of 'prevailing party'
Hecht AUSTIN � Contracts that provide legal fees for prevailing parties don't necessarily apply when plaintiffs nonsuit without prejudice, six Supreme Court Justices decided on Aug. 26. -
Legally Speaking: Scents and Sensibility-When Evidence Doesn't Pass the Smell Test (Part 4)
The National Research Council, in its 2009 report concluded that our nation's forensic sciences system is "badly fragmented" and lacking in strong standards by which the reliability of forensic methods and evidence can be measured. -
Rear-end collision on Kidd Road leads to lawsuit
A Williamson County woman claims she suffered physical pain and mental anguish after a driver rear-ended her.