Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
A Rockwall jury recently ruled that a local human resources outsourcing company breached its contract with Central Freight Lines to provide workers’ compensation insurance and claims administration services.
In a 255-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack ruled that the state is currently violating foster children’s constitutional rights by not protecting them from an unreasonable risk of harm.
Lawyers for Maserati North America are expected this week to ask an Austin judge to affirm a jury verdict that last Tuesday cleared the Italian luxury car maker of more
Dallas is out of room for lawyers named Amy Stewart. The two who are in today’s North Texas legal community, Amy E. Stewart of Amy Stewart Law and Amy M. Stewart of Estes Okon, have received each other’s depositions, court transcripts – and in one instance – phone call from the other’s father. But they share more than a name. Find out tomorrow what else they have in common.
Houston and Dallas business attorneys are more satisfied with the federal judges in their area than they are with state judges, according to new data from the Houston Bar Association and Dallas Bar Association. The two bar associations’ judiciary polls, which come out every two years, rate individual judges based on HBA and DBA members’ satisfaction with their impartiality, preparation for hearings and trial, timely opinions, knowledge of the law and temperament in the courtroom.
A federal judge in Dallas Monday awarded $9.6 million to Flower Mound-based ThermoTek Inc. after a jury late last week determined that a competitor fraudulently obtained the medical products manufacturer’s business information for a series of physical therapy machines.
A group of North Texas business leaders plan to ask a judge next week to issue an $8 million judgment against Dallas-based Southwest Securities – now HilltopSecurities – and one
Lawyers for a 56-year-old Fort Worth air conditioning repairman severely burned while fixing a compressor are asking a Texas state court judge to uphold a multimillion-dollar judgment for their client. Clarence Johnson sued St. Louis-based Emerson Climate Technologies and Fusite for designing and selling the defective compressor that sprayed scorching hot oil on his face and torso causing him to suffer second-degree and third-degree burns on 62 percent of his body.
U.S. District Judge David Godbey ruled Wednesday that accounting firm BDO USA’s agreement to pay $40 million to victims in the R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme “is a fair settlement amount.”
Robison said Friday’s ruling is important because the size of the class alone.
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