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‘Open up! It’s the people!’
Usually, it’s members of law enforcement who shout “Open up!” (and “It’s the police!”) when they want to make an arrest. But these are unusual times.
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Judge Fredericka Phillips’ lack of judgment
Honi soit qui mal y pense. Shame on those who see evil there.
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Texas Bar members deserve a choice, not an echo
Late conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly published her first book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964 in hopes of breaking the stranglehold of country club Republicans on the grand old party’s presidential nominating process. Every four years, it seemed even then, the party faithful were presented with a somewhat less offensive version of the opposition’s choice, i.e., Democrat Lite.
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‘Paid or incurred’ means actually ‘paid or incurred’
Does anyone in Texas think that conniving plaintiffs and attorneys should be allowed to cash in on fraudulent claims, aside from said plaintiffs and attorneys?
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Keep on trucking, Texas!
“The litigation environment for owners and operators of commercial or company vehicles has reached a tipping point that, unless addressed by the Texas Legislature, will result in growing small business failures, increased costs of doing business for the companies that survive, and increased costs for goods and services purchased by all Texans.”
That doesn’t sound good.
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Here come the storm lawsuits
May God bless first responders! They all deserve our gratitude: the police, the firemen, the EMTs, the doctors and nurses, the utility company workers, and all the rest who risk their lives and log long hours to keep us safe and put things right as fast as possible after a natural or man-made disaster.
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Some people never learn
One of the most memorable expressions of Gomer Pyle, the dimwitted Mayberry mechanic who became a bumbling Marine, was this gem:“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
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Let’s reopen for business, not for lawsuits
If there was ever a case where the cure was worse than the disease, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is surely it.
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Student steamed after being burned by Rice University
The average price for Super Bowl tickets last year was $5,511. This year, with “social distancing” enforced and fewer tickets available, the average price was $14,110.
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Let them eat fusion burritos! South Padre Island needs to let food trucks roll in
The Institute for Justice (IJ) defends the rights of entrepreneurs against arbitrary and capricious state and local lawmakers. Their clients are ordinary people trying to make a living, only to see their American Dream obstructed or destroyed by licensing laws or permit requirements that protect a privileged class of more-established businesses.
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Counties and school districts should not resort to contingency-fee contracts
Do you want your kids to smoke cigarettes or vape? If not, then tell them no. Don’t expect someone else to do it for you.
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Brent Coon got into deep water
“[W]e led the charge against British Petroleum following the 2005 explosion at the BP Texas City Refinery that killed 15 people,” Beaumont attorney Brent Coon declared on a website launched five years later to exploit the subsequent tragedy of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. “Now, we’re preparing to take on the oil giants once again.”
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For lawyers, “creative” is synonymous with self-serving
“Preparing wrongful death claims and securing their payment requires creativity,” Beaumont attorneys Mitchell Toups and Richard Coffman assert on their website.
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Did Kevin Bobo make a boo-boo?
If your name were Klutz, you might want to be extra careful. Not that your name defines you necessarily, or predetermines your destiny, but, hey, it can have an influence on how you act and how others act toward you, so why make a self-fulfilling prophecy out of it?
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If you don’t see vote fraud, you must be blind
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office staff has received death threats following his decision to join an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit challenging election results in four swing states.
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Toups and Coffman, the Urkel twins
“Did I do that?” That was the catchphrase of Steve Urkel, the Family Matters character who stole the show with his ridiculously over-the-top portrayal of an accident-prone nerd.
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Bad lessons from Texas school districts
Two Texas school districts have joined the opioid gold rush. Hey, why not get in on the action? Everyone else is doing it – including multiple municipalities, and the state, too.
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Exposing the hidden tax of litigation
Two years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform released a study showing that the cost of tort litigation nationwide in 2016 was $429 billion: nearly three-quarters the size of the U.S. defense budget and $100 billion more than Americans spent on retail drugs in 2016. Roughly half of that amount went to plaintiffs, the balance to lawyers’ fees and insurance and administrative costs.
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As Exxon fights for justice, others join the fight
What can one person do? If you don’t know already, you’d be surprised.
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Unruly employee sues employer for results of his unruliness
Nobody likes being criticized or talked down to, but you kind of have to get used to it if you want to get along in life, because it’s bound to happen once in a while. Sometimes you might deserve it and sometimes you might not. Even if you don’t deserve it, however, you may have to put up with it, depending on the circumstances.