Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
The former head of Apache Corp.’s Egyptian operations misappropriated sensitive trade secrets earlier this year when he left the Houston oil and gas company to help create a start-up firm that would compete with Apache for business, lawyers for Apache alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
A pair of upcoming trials will help determine whether two large makers of “smart” utility meters stole a small Carrollton company’s technology – and the stakes are huge.
A Houston-based trial team at Winston & Strawn has engineered a huge victory for a small Pacific Northwest firm against food giant Mars, Inc. in a patent battle about pet
A Travis County judge on Monday awarded $1.3 million to two Santa Fe antique dealers who lost a significant amount of their jewelry collection to consignment fraud by a La Grange woman.
A jury ruled Monday that the Choctaw Nation should pay nearly $11 million to the families of two victims who died in a charter bus crash in Irving three years ago while on their way to the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma. The verdict is a big win for plaintiff's lawyer Frank Branson, but defense attorney Tom Fee argues his client will be successful on appeal.
The Eastern District of Texas will remain the patent lawsuit capital of America, thanks to a decision Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Tech companies hoped the court would overturn a 26-year-old decision that gives patent owners wide latitude on where to file their suits. It did not.
Lawler Foods, a Humble firm celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, has agreed to pay $1 million to compensate hundreds of unsuccessful job seekers after federal officials accused the company of telling black, white and other applicants that it would not hire them in favor of Hispanics.The EEOC sued the company in 2014 for race and national origin discrimination.
Both a Plano chip business and a one-time suitor turned rival could be pardoned if they both felt some disappointment about a federal district judge’s rulings Tuesday in their seven-year
Thousands of individuals and businesses across the globe received an email from Texas lawyer James T. Shelton with information about a subpoena for information. No one from the law firm sent the email. Even worse, the email contained a virus with a malware payload that allows cybercriminals to “steal banking credentials and other personal information on a user’s system, ultimately allowing them to gain access to the financial records” of that user. This article has full details.
Dallas-based BarBri, Inc. continues to violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to properly accommodate blind law students who use BarBri’s online and other services to prepare for the bar exam, a lawsuit filed today in Dallas federal court claims.
A federal judge in East Texas Friday threw out a decade-long litigation brought by hundreds of chicken farmers seeking a combined $500 million against Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. for allegedly manipulating poultry prices with the intent of shutting down some of the chicken growers and unfair trade practices. The case is a huge win for Dallas lawyer Clayton Bailey.
A 72-year-old man wrongfully convinced his terminally ill second wife of 24 years to revise her will on her deathbed to favor him over an earlier version that favored her three children, a Dallas jury ruled Tuesday.
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