News published on Southeast Texas Record in November 2009

Justice Steve McKeithen Despite winning his case a year ago, a former Jefferson County constable had his $126,500 jury award stripped by the Ninth Court of Appeals last Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The Obama administration has taken the side of investors seeking to sue pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. over its now-withdrawn blockbuster painkiller Vioxx.

A Port Neches woman has filed suit against the apartment complex where she says her daughter fell over an uncovered water spigot while roller skating.

Boehner (R) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-House Republicans plan to offer an alternative to the Democrats' proposal for a national health care overhaul that contains tort reform, House Minority Leader John Boehner said Sunday.