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A Delaware court ruled Wednesday that a business suing another business did not violate the state’s prohibition against “champerty and maintenance” when it engaged a third-party to finance the litigation. The opinion is believed to be the first such ruling issued by a judge in the U.S.
Lawyers representing DraftKings said Friday evening that Paxton is wrong about Texas law.
Online fantasy sports operator DraftKings sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Dallas County District Court Friday evening, seeking a court order to prevent Paxton from “forcing DraftKings out of business in Texas.” DraftKings lawsuit came only hours after Paxton announced the state had reached a settlement with the other major daily fantasy sports site, FanDuel.
A federal grand jury in Oklahoma has indicted Chesapeake Energy Corp. co-founder and former chief executive officer Aubrey McClendon on charges that he violated antitrust laws by conspiring with another energy company to fix the bidding process bids for the purchase of oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma from 2007 to 2012.
Baker Botts announced Friday that it has secured a $775 million settlement for firm client Liberty Media in a decade-long securities fraud litigation against Vivendi Universal S.A.
Harper Lee opened our minds and showed us the way toward a higher level of consciousness – and for this, may she always be remembered as a person who advanced humanity’s understanding of its flaws, needs, and hopes. In To Kill a Mockingbird,and Go Set a Watchman, Lee showed us a higher wisdom about race relations, justice and the necessary civility of discourse that needs to take place between insiders and outsiders before American society can think about rising from the fractious, partisan ditch our politics have now put us in.
Lawsuits related to layoffs and job reductions in the oil patch have dramatically increased during the past 10 months. Employment complaints filed in the Southern and Western districts of Texas hit all-time highs in 2015. If filings during the first six weeks of this year are an indication, 2016 could shatter all records in Texas for lawsuits filed due to job reductions.
The nation’s largest environmental organization is suing Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy and New Dominion, claiming their fracking efforts trigger earthquakes. The federal lawsuit filed in Oklahoma City says there were at least 5,800 earthquakes in Oklahoma last year – compared to a previous high 167 during the previous three decades, according to Bloomberg.
A handful of non-partisan lawyer organizations across the state have endorsed the candidates they deem most qualified and their choices are a mixture of incumbents and challengers, Republicans and Democrats.
A Houston jury on Wednesday awarded $53 million to the family of a construction worker from Irving who died in late 2013 while working on renovations for Texas A&M University’s football stadium, Kyle Field.
Prominent Dallas trial lawyers Michael K. Hurst and Shonn Brown, who represent Ray Hunt and Highland Capital in multimillion-dollar litigation, are leaving Gruber Hurst for crosstown rival Lynn Pinker Cox. Hurst and Brown are taking five lawyers with them. The Texas Lawbook interviewed all parties.
The Supreme Court of Texas upheld its ruling from last year when the majority interpreted a drilling lease as clearly excluding post-production costs from royalties.
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