Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
A Houston federal jury found Friday that French agricultural merchant Louis Dreyfus Co. breached a contract with the Port of Houston Authority when it returned a damaged grain elevator and other equipment it had leased to handle its Houston-based exports.
Lawyers in a showdown between BMC Software and IBM concluded Thursday their cases with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential damages for presiding judge Gray Miller to ponder over whether IBM committed fraud. Natalie Posgate was in the courtroom for closing arguments.
An infringement claim against Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular Fortnite video game, is dismissed for improper venue by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright.
The fifth edition has 26 entirely new chapters covering topics on no one’s radar screen four years ago but likely to be the subjects of the highest stakes litigation in the years to come.
Houston litigation boutique Yetter Coleman announced Tuesday that it has hired a complex commercial litigator from Kirkland. The new partner also has significant restructuring trial experience.
Despite efforts by a handful of federal appellate judges to limit jurisdiction and criticism from tech companies, the Western and Eastern districts of Texas remain two of the hottest courts in the U.S. for patent litigation. New data shows that federal courts in Waco and Marshall have more patent infringement disputes than 40 other states combined. Lawyers for plaintiffs and defendants tell The Texas Lawbook there are explanations behind the numbers.
At the end of a weeklong trial in Marshall, a federal court jury determined that the Chamberlain Group failed to prove its garage-door patents had been infringed upon.
BMC's second witness took the witness stand for most of Tuesday. Brian Jones, a key negotiator for BMC during its contract discussions with IBM, said his side was always "crystal clear" about its position of removing a coveted client from the parties' displacement provision: it wasn't happening.
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