Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Texas health insurers and hospitals clashed Wednesday over whether the insurance companies face a dire threat from computer-assisted, mischief-making trial lawyers. The issue is whether plaintiffs’ lawyers, assisted by data mining companies, are about to collect billions from insurers for dragging their feet on reimbursement claims.
Kansas-based Tallgrass Development has agreed to purchase a subsidiary of Sempra U.S. Gas and Power’s 25 percent interest in Rockies Express Pipeline for $440 million.
© 2015 The Texas Lawbook. By L.M. Sixel of the Houston Chronicle HOUSTON (March 30) – John Hwang is set to get his law degree from the University of Houston
Thanks to the successful Teach Texas pilot program in Houston-area schools this spring, future seventh graders in Texas will learn about the state’s court system and how the history of the courts is intertwined with the rest of Texas history. Along the way, the professional image of lawyers and judges is likely to be polished as shiny as a teacher’s apple. More than 8,700 seventh graders have been taught this spring by volunteer lawyer-judge teams in the Houston Bar Association presidential initiative.
Thanks to the successful Teach Texas pilot program in Houston-area schools this spring, future seventh graders in Texas will learn about the state’s court system and how the history of the courts is intertwined with the rest of Texas history. Along the way, the professional image of lawyers and judges is likely to be polished as shiny as a teacher’s apple. More than 8,700 seventh graders have been taught this spring by volunteer lawyer-judge teams in the Houston Bar Association presidential initiative.
A $19 million mineral lease fight between the city of Dallas and Trinity East Energy could be impacted by a pair of appeals pending before the Texas Supreme Court that question a municipality’s immunity from breach of contract suits.
In a lengthy report by Bloomberg writers Bryan Gruley, Joe Carroll and Asjylyn Loder, the magazine tracks McClendon’s career and his last few days.
© 2015 The Texas Lawbook. By Jeffrey Weiss of The Dallas Morning News (March 25) – Texas electric power customers will need to wait a year or so to find
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