SOUTHEAST TEXAS RECORD

HOUSTON – A former delivery driver for an Amazon contract service provider alleges he is owed unpaid overtime wages.

HOUSTON – An alleged shooting at a local gentlemen’s club earlier this year is the subject of a Harris County woman’s lawsuit.

HOUSTON – A former delivery driver for a Texas corporation alleges she and other drivers were not compensated for the overtime hours they worked.

SHERMAN – A Dallas resident claims a debt collection company illegally contacted him to collect an alleged debt.

HOUSTON – A Taco Bell patron alleges she was injured when she fell after slipping in a puddle of location at a Houston location.

HOUSTON – A Louisiana man alleges he was injured twice in two days while working aboard a vessel because its owners failed to keep it in a reasonable state of repair.

HOUSTON – On June 21, the 1st District Court of Appeals issued a ruling to reverse a man’s negligence claim against St. Joseph Medical Center.

HOUSTON – The 1st District Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s ruling that denied three engineering companies' motion to dismiss a man's negligence claims against them.

HOUSTON – The 14th Court of Appeals issued a ruling on June 21 conditionally granting a writ of mandamus that two physician groups do not need to follow an “extreme and highly intrusive” trial court order that a forensic expert will search for information relating to allegations of stolen trade secrets.

HOUSTON – The American Postal Workers Union Local 0185 is facing a defamation lawsuit from a former president, per recent Harris County District Court records.

“Where is Texas Watch in objecting to the Houston lawyer who signs up clients on a 45-percent contingency fee and then dumps their matters into appraisal – knowing very well there is no need for a lawyer to handle an appraisal process?”

HOUSTON – A Travis County man is seeking $1 million from his employer after allegedly unsafe equipment caused him to fall from a vessel and into the water.

HOUSTON – A man alleges he was injured at a Harris County site when a forklift arm caused him to fall.

HOUSTON – Two Harris County women allege in a lawsuit that they were injured while participating in an obstacle course during an afterschool event last year at an elementary school.

HOUSTON – A man injured while working at a Harris County apartment alleges an unsafe work environment caused his injuries.

HOUSTON – A Harris County woman has filed a lawsuit after undergoing what she asserts was a botched laser hair removal procedure.

A prior post (entitled “Who Runs the Legal Academy?”) attracted some much-needed attention from other sites, including Overlawyered.com, Instapundit, and the Tom Woods Show. The governance of law schools, although not a secret, is poorly-understood and seldom discussed. This lack of transparency empowers—or at least emboldens—some of the behind-the-scenes influencers to take unreasonable positions and to pursue self-interested goals that are contrary to the ostensible objective of training students to be effective and ethical lawyers. The result is a dysfunctional legal academy.

SAN ANTONIO - The Spike Lee actress who lost a federal lawsuit against El Paso Attorney Kenneth Krohn and Houston Attorney Don Ford last year has filed an appeal with the 5th Circuit in New Orleans.

AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas upheld a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the 14th District of Texas in a medical-malpractice case over a woman's death.

HOUSTON – Another former Houston Texans Cheerleader has been added as a co-plaintiff in the ongoing labor litigation against the NFL franchise, claiming the cheerleading squad’s coach forced her to wear duct tape.