News published on Southeast Texas Record in February 2018

HOUSTON – A Harris County man claims the Texas Health and Human Services Commission refuses to let him correct a mistake on his late wife’s death certificate.

HOUSTON – A furniture mover is suing his employer after he allegedly fell on the job two years ago, recent Harris County District Court records show.

BEAUMONT – Jefferson County does not have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit brought by the family of Mexican man, who was killed when the Ford vehicle he was riding in crashed in Mexico.

HOUSTON – A woman alleges she worked more than 40 hours per week at a Conroe location and was not paid the appropriate rate for overtime work.

HOUSTON – A Louisiana man alleges he was injured while working on a vessel because a company failed to provide a safe means to enter and exit it.

HOUSTON – A Houston consumer alleges a Minnesota-based debt collector has harassed her with phone calls.

What do Dallas, Galveston, Harris and other Texas county courts have that Jefferson County's doesn't? Transparency. Online transparency, that is. An easily accessible and navigable website that allows ordinary citizens to review court records of civil litigation from home, the office, cell phones, etc.

HOUSTON – A Houston man alleges he is owed unpaid overtime wages from his former construction company employers.

HOUSTON – A machinist alleges he was injured while working on a locomotive in a rail yard.

HOUSTON – A Houston cafe is alleged to have failed to pay a dishwasher a minimum wage.

HOUSTON – A Harris County consumer alleges she overpaid thousands of dollars on coins because of false representations of a New York individual and company.

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument today [February 26] in one of the term’s most important—and highly publicized—cases, Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31. As many readers are aware, the case involves the constitutionality of “agency shop” arrangements in public sector collective bargaining agreements, which compel non-member employees to make payments in lieu of union dues as a condition of their employment. Agency shop clauses are commonly used in public-sector labor contracts, enabling powerful unions representing teachers and other government employees to collect large sums of money from workers who never consented to such exactions (and who, for that matter, never voted in favor of union representation).

HOUSTON – A 1st District Court of Appeals panel of judges has affirmed a trial court’s ruling on an alleged medical malpractice-related death.

HOUSTON ‒ In a recently issued opinion regarding the verdict of a past jury trial that proved no wrongdoing on the part of a water collection and treatment system operator, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals for the 1st District of Texas affirmed the original position Feb. 15.

HOUSTON – With about a month left before its third anniversary, a state district medical malpractice lawsuit was recently disposed with the plaintiff scoring a $6.6 million judgment in her favor.

HOUSTON – A defunct energy company asserts it went out of business because it refused to take a bribe from executives with a South American energy company and has pursued legal action in federal court.

HOUSTON – A man alleges he was terminated from his job as a manager with a Cinco Ranch restaurant because of his age and perceived disability.

HOUSTON – A Harris County man alleges that he was injured after tripping on a trampoline at a Katy store.

HOUSTON – A legal holder of a promissory note alleges the borrower has defaulted on it.

HOUSTON – A Houston man claims his visit to a T-Mobile store two years ago resulted in him falling on the floor.