Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Lawyers across the state are getting involved in pro bono projects to help the migrant children arriving from the border crisis, but Texas’ highest ranking judge says more of them need to step up.
A Dallas jury ruled in favor of the Carrollton-based restaurant chain regarding a bitter joint venture dispute involving restaurants at the DFW Airport.
A federal jury in Victoria awarded $25 million to HeartBrand Beef, Inc. for a Japanese cattle deal that went south with a Colorado cattle ranch.
Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Corporation will acquire Hess Corporation’s retail business, which is the largest chain of company operate gas stations and convenience stores on the East Coast.
Jurors concluded four Galveston police officers used excessive force during a 2008 wedding reception, but deadlocked on former Astro Brandon Backe's $13 million request.
A bone-chilling fear swept through lawyers at Baker Botts Thursday when a Dallas jury ruled that the Texas-based law firm acted negligently more than a decade ago when it represented two competing technology companies vying for similar patent protections, but didn’t disclose the potential conflict to its client. The jury placed damages against Baker Botts at $40.5 million. But 30 seconds later, the fear turned to extraordinary relief when the five-woman and one-man panel also found that Addision-based Axcess International waited three years too long to file its lawsuit against Baker Botts and, as a result, the 700-lawyer firm likely will not have to pay a dime.
Following three weeks of testimony, lawyers for Axcess International and Baker Botts gave closing arguments Wednesday to the six-person jury. Dallas-based Axcess is seeking $51 million in damages.
A former employee of Dallas-based Genesco Sports Enterprises, Inc. claims his old bosses made knowingly false statements about him to Dallas County prosecutors in an effort to fraudulently help the company win a separate civil lawsuit against its former employee.
A Dallas jury ruled Monday that Honeywell committed fraud against Hunt Consolidated by not telling the Dallas-based oil company about certain defects in Honeywell’s turbofan engines, which powered two of Hunt’s corporate Learjets. In a 10-2 verdict, the jury awarded Hunt nearly $1.4 million in damages, which included the costs for rental engine fees and repair of Hunt’s engines.
Lawyers for Hunt Consolidated and Honeywell International pointed fingers at each other during closing arguments of the three-week products defects trial.
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