(May 11) – The on-again, off-again $75 million patent infringement judgment for Ericsson is back again. And another $35 million has been added to the award by a U.S. Magistrate in East Texas. The Texas Lawbook has details on the 35-page opinion.
Yearning For Zion: A Massive Child Custody Case Remembered 10 Years After
Ten years ago, Carmen Dusek found herself square in the middle of the largest child custody case ever litigated. The case involved charges of child abuse and rape in a remote compound run fundamentalist religious sect run by Warren Jeffs whose Biblical beliefs included a particularly strident form of polygamy. The case came to include scores of lawyers who volunteered from afar to assure adequate legal representation for some 400 children. She recalls the pride and disappointment to Janet Elliott in The Texas Lawyer.
Swiss Deportee to File Claims Against his Lawyers, Federal Marshal for Malpractice, ‘Entrapment’
A Swiss businessman may soon be filing a malpractice lawsuit against the federal public defenders who represented him in a criminal bankruptcy fraud case, a recent letter to a federal appeals court indicates. This is a man who was a fugitive after fleeing a federal contempt order, a pro se party several times in litigation after failing to pay his lawyers’ retainer fees, and a big spender on cars and townhouses but not so much on a $2 million civil judgment from 2011 that he still owes to his courtroom opponent. The Lawbook has the latest on this truly remarkable legal saga.
Cantey Hanger Adds Partner in Dallas from Litigation Boutique
Machir Stull was previously at Gruber Hail Johansen Shank, which recently dissolved.
Houston NRF Lawyer Scores Appellate Win for Phillips 66 in Toxic Tort Case
A group of Houston lawyers at Norton Rose Fulbright have been on a winning streak of toxic tort cases for Phillips 66. The latest happened in a federal appeals court in Denver. Details here.
Akerman Adds Insurance Litigation Pro in Dallas
Matt Schroeder, who left Gardere, has special expertise involving coverage issues related to environmental risk policies
Exclusive: Litigation Boutique Pioneer Mike Gruber Joins Dorsey
Prominent litigator Mike Gruber has left the Dallas litigation firm that bears his name to join Dorsey & Whitney, a 106-year old Minnesota firm. The decision was hard, he says, but his reasoning is simple: “Its hard to compete against these national law firms.” Mark Curriden has the story.
Updated – From $50 in the Bank to Tuesday’s $502M Verdict Against Apple: Meet Caldwell Cassady & Curry
Meet Caldwell Cassady & Curry. They started with a $50 bank account and a dedicated client. Now they wear jeans to work, name their conference rooms after hip-hop artists and score verdicts in the hundreds of millions. Natalie Posgate explains who they are, where they come from and why Apple wishes they’d go away.