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Michelle Casady

Michelle Casady is based in Houston and covers litigation and appeals — including trials, breaking news and industry trends — for The Texas Lawbook.

Michelle Casady

Michelle Casady has been a reporter in Texas since January 2009. She's covered crime at The Bryan-College Station Eagle, courts at the San Antonio Express-News and civil litigation for Law360. In July 2022, she joined The Texas Lawbook.

Her reporting has included covering arrests, trials, plea deals and settlements, executions, natural and manmade disasters, colorful characters and various oddities.

She lives in Houston with her husband Matt, a sweet dog Hurricane Harvey brought into their lives, and a confident cat who keeps everyone in line. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas Tech University and was a 2018 fellow of the Loyola Marymount University Journalist Law School.

You can reach Michelle at michelle.casady@texaslawbook.net or (713) 614-7929.

David Jones Wants GWG Bondholders’ RICO Suit Tossed

The former jurist who resigned his position in the Southern District of Texas in the wake of reporting about his previously secret romantic relationship with a bankruptcy lawyer told the court he is entitled to complete immunity from the lawsuit brought by aggrieved GWG bondholders. “There can be no genuine dispute that Jones is entitled to absolute immunity from civil lawsuits arising from his role as a judicial mediator in the GWG bankruptcy cases under applicable law,” the motion to dismiss reads. (File photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Michelle Casady

Judge Halts Construction of Natural Gas Pipeline, Compressor Station in Conroe

The lawyer representing the Bartholet family, Houston solo practitioner Seth Rubinson, who has represented pipeline companies in other litigation, made it clear in an interview with The Texas Lawbook Tuesday that both he and his client are not “anti-pipeline” and “believe infrastructure projects are important.”

“But this is a case about enforcing a restrictive covenant,” Rubinson said.

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Freeman Seeks Dismissal of GWG Bondholders’ RICO Suit

Elizabeth Freeman and her law firm filed the 54-page dismissal motion, which includes more than 1,000 pages of exhibits, on Tuesday. The bondholders had filed suit in June, alleging she was among a group of individuals working “together to prey upon distressed entities for their own financial gain.” 

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Litigation Roundup: Dallas Firm Readies for Airline Fatality Trial 

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Baker Botts is hired by Tesla to defend against patent infringement claims in the Eastern District of Texas, jury selection is underway in an airline crash fatality suit that a Dallas law firm is taking to trial in Washington State, and a recent appellate ruling from Eastland could have a broad impact in personal injury cases.

Michelle Casady

Litigation Roundup: SFA’s Plans to Cut Women’s Sports Halted

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Phillips 66 must pay $195 million in exemplary damages — on top of nearly $605 million in compensatory damages — in a trade secrets case in California, a federal judge in East Texas sides with female athletes at Stephen F. Austin State University who brought a Title IX lawsuit after the university announced it would end several women’s sports programs, and Amazon is the latest target of a company accusing retail behemoths of infringing barcode technology.

Michelle Casady

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