DC International Inc. alleged to owe former dispatcher overtime wages
GALVESTON – An Ohio resident formerly employed on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico alleges he is owed unpaid overtime wages.
GALVESTON – An Ohio resident formerly employed on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico alleges he is owed unpaid overtime wages.
GALVESTON – An Odessa man alleges a staffing company unlawfully misclassified him as exempt from receiving overtime pay.
HOUSTON – An ice cream shop employee has filed a lawsuit against Rockwell Automation after she allegedly injured herself using its Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 600.
HEMMENWAY FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP vs. CHEVRON PIPE LINE COMPANY
GALVESTON – A Texas City woman says a Dickinson car dealership discharged her from employment because she lodged a complaint about racial discrimination.
HOUSTON – A fast food franchisee has pursued legal action on claims her restaurant in Crosby has not seen any promised improvements, per recent Harris County District Court records.
HOUSTON – A Houston woman alleges she was not paid overtime compensation as a receptionist at a medical office.
OUSTON – A woman alleges she was injured at a Houston location because of a wet floor.
HOUSTON – On Feb. 16, attorneys for BP presented the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas with a memorandum in support of their motion for judgment to dismiss several pending individual securities actions, citing a recent U.S Supreme Court case.
AUSTIN – In a dispute between insurance agency The Altman and Jody James Farms (JJF), the Texas Supreme Court has decided to grant JJF’s petition for review.
HOUSTON – An employee with Jacobs Field Services claims he was hurt while working at a Brazoria County chemical plant.
HOUSTON – A Harris County man is suing his defunct employer in an effort to recover back pay.
HOUSTON – An apparent accident at a Pearland Big Lots store is the subject of a Houston woman’s lawsuit.
HOUSTON – Accusing the City of Houston of engaging in sex discrimination against two female firefighters, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit.
MARSHALL – A Tyler ABC affiliate faces a defamation suit from a Smith County woman who claims it reported about her being a suspected burglar, recent Marshall federal court records show.
HOUSTON – A Brazoria County woman claims she was injured when a towing business tried to take a vehicle from her apartment complex’s parking lot last year, recent Harris County District Court records show.
TYLER – An East Texas couple is pursuing legal action after a table fan they purchased reportedly caught on fire two years ago.
MARSHALL DIVISION Feb. 26 IMPLICIT, LLC V. MCAFEE, LLC 2:18-cv-00046-JRG
FORT WORTH, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Harvard professors who say their analysis proves ExxonMobil misled the public about climate change were obviously biased, a colleague says, and the company says that data shouldn't be used to help a “corrupt enterprise” of private lawyers and California officials suing the energy sector.
The Americans With Disabilities Act may be the most widely-abused law in our history, spawning frivolous litigation against employers, retail businesses, and—most recently—spurious claims against websites that allegedly aren’t sufficiently compliant with the ADA. Nationwide, a cottage industry has developed among a bottom-feeding element of the plaintiffs’ bar that specializes in bringing a high volume of cookie-cutter lawsuits against small businesses for technical violations of the ADA, and extorting quick settlements of several thousand dollars each.