10 Months In, New Trade Secret Law is ‘Important Development’
Some 10 months after a new state trade secret statute became effective, an expected surge in litigation hasn't ensued, experts say.
ZeniMax, id Sue Oculus in Trade Secret Spat
A Richardson video game maker and its corporate parent are going after a California firm that they claim hasn’t compensated them for technical know-how they provided in making a virtual reality system.
SCOTUS: Defendants in Frivolous Patent Cases Should Get Legal Fees
Justices gave wide deference to trial judges in deciding when awarding fees are appropriate.
Dallas Federal Judge Tosses Whistleblower Claims Against BB&T
A lawsuit by a North Texas businessman who alleged that North Carolina banking giant BB&T Co. was involved in a scheme to defraud an arm of the federal government out of millions of dollars has been thrown out of court.
N. Texas Opportunity Fund Sues Hammerman & Gainer
A Dallas private equity fund is taking officials of a Louisiana company to task over allegations that it secretly set up a “shell” company to funnel money out of the business when the fund owned a piece of that company.
Good as Gold: Jury Gives Dillon Gage Nod in Art Gallery Spat
A federal jury has nixed an attempt by a Los Angeles art gallery to do an end-run around the Robert Allen Stanford receivership claims process and recover nearly $3 million that it provided the imprisoned Houston billionaire’s empire for the purchase of 100 gold bars.
GCs Call for Reforms to Limit Patent Trolls
The chief legal officers of Whataburger, Rackspace Hosting Inc., the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association and the Internet Association trade group said patent lawsuits have an $80 billion drag on the national economy
Federal Courts Getting Slammed by Congressional Budget Woes
At the end of this week, jurors serving on federal trials will get IOUs. All civil trials are being put hold. Payments to court-appointed lawyers will be halted. The federal government shutdown combined with the “sequestration” funding cuts have had a devastating impact on its efforts to provide access to justice.
Businesses Sue Visa & MasterCard in East Texas for Antitrust Violations and Excessive Fees — Updated
More than 100 large merchants, including more than three dozen prominent Texas-based businesses, filed an anti-trust suit against Visa and MasterCard Tuesday, alleging they have been forced to pay excessive fees amounting to hundreds millions of dollars. The Texas plaintiffs include TXU Energy Retail, La Quinta Inns, Pier 1 Imports, RadioShack, ClubCorp, Reliant Energy, The Men’s Wearhouse, Valero Energy and Travelocity.com.
Cities, Power Companies and Farmers Await Texas Water Access Decision
Texas’ environmental watchdog is expected to reveal Friday whether it will continue allowing municipalities and power generators to jump to the front of the line over the right to use increasingly scarce water in the Brazos River region. A state judge ordered the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop that practice, ruling that it should follow a more than 100-year-old system for allocating water, called the priority doctrine. Read more for the details.