News published on Southeast Texas Record in June 2008

Ted Frank WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The U.S. Supreme Court will end the long-running class-action lawsuit over the Exxon Valdez spill any Monday between today and June 23, when it issues a ruling before the high court's term recesses.

After deliberating for three days, jurors failed to decide whether Connie Woods doused her feet with flesh-eating chemicals while under the care of Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital Beaumont or prior to being committed, as the three-week long trial ended in mistrial.

A local woman is alleging Wal-Mart had a duty to warn her not to step into unattended shopping baskets left on the ground.

Most mothers tell their children to look both ways. Perhaps one of the few kids who never received the alerting advice, a Beaumont woman is alleging it was Target's duty to "warn" her to watch out for "incoming shopping carts."

Texas Asphalt Sealing has filed suit against K.T. Foods, claiming the company has paid only half of what it owes Texas Asphalt for a parking lot job.

Regardless of what was showing on the screen, a Beaumont child gave his experience at a local movie theater "two thumbs down."

A Port Arthur business, Standard Alloys & Manufacturing Co., has filed suit against Entergy, claiming the power company negligently ignored a faulty transformer, which sparked and caused a fire to spread throughout the plaintiff's foundry.

Keith Hyde A widow has filed a benzene suit against Chevron USA, convinced the company who wrote her husband's paychecks also killed him.

Associate Justice Donald Corbin LITTLE ROCK, Ark. � The Arkansas Supreme Court heard arguments over multi-state class certification issues relating to product liability cases on Thursday, May 29.

Even when corporate defendants win in Jefferson County, they lose.