Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
A former Houston Astros pitcher and 11 other guests attending a South Texas wedding party in 2008 go to trial next week on their allegations that Galveston police violently and viciously beat them without any provocation.
The Delaware Supreme Court, in a precedent-setting decision involving a Dallas corporation, has ruled that a company’s board of directors can legally terminate its chief executive officer and fellow board member at a regularly scheduled board meeting without giving the individual advance notice about the upcoming vote about his or her removal.
The confidential settlement was for a 50-year-old Toronto man who died in a fatal crash in November 2011 aboard a Blue Hawaiian helicopter that was headed to the island of Molokai.
A Harris County jury awarded Houston-based Function One Consulting Group LLC $11.4 million Thursday for damages it suffered when a competitor made false accusations about it violating tax laws.
As Tom Melsheimer gave his closing argument to the jury last October, his client slipped him a piece a paper. “He wanted me to tell something to the jury,” Melsheimer said. “He’s Mark Cuban, so I told it to the jury.” Melsheimer’s comments were part of a 90-minute CLE program hosted Thursday evening by The Texas Lawbook, SMU Dedman School of Law and the General Counsel Forum. The program, which also featured Cuban Companies General Counsel Robert Hart, litigation consultant Jason Barnes, Bell Nunnally white-collar defense expert Jeff Ansley and SMU Dedman law professor Linda Eads, focused on behind-the-scenes moments involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider trading trial against Cuban.
It is the first action in the nation by a federal district court to create a special track to limit the expense of patent cases.
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The federal jury found the company and two executives did not defraud investors or commit insider trading, but that they did commit other securities violations.
A Dallas jury, in a potential landmark verdict that has attracted a lot of attention from energy companies and general counsel, ruled last Tuesday that two businesses can be involved in a legally binding partnership even when one of the parties never intended for the joint venture to be official. The jury ordered Enterprise to pay ETP $319 million in damages for violating the corporate version of a common law marriage. The victory was the largest for prominent trial lawyer Mike Lynn and one of the largest ever awarded by a North Texas jury. However, it did not find that Enterprise and Enbridge conspired for Enterprise to breach its duty to ETP for their partnership. Jurors awarded ETP $319 million in actual damages to ETP, but an additional amount for restitution could be added. The jury’s conclusion is a landmark decision for Texas business lawyers and their corporate clients for what under State law constitutes a business partnership. The decision follows four full weeks of intensive testimony from the three oil and gas giants. ETP claimed that Enterprise violated their “Double E” partnership agreement by cutting ties with ETP to pursue a more financially viable pipeline project with Enbridge and that the two conspired to cut ETP out of their new deal. More details as the story develops.
A Texas neurosurgeon won $4 million in damages when the jury determined last week that a medical device company misappropriated his trade secret.
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