Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
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.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater Thursday morning rejected efforts by Three Expo Events to override the City of Dallas’ prohibition of a three-day exhibition called Exxxotica at the Dallas Convention
U.S. Chief Judge Jorge Solis announced Tuesday that U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn will succeed him as the next chief judge of the Northern District on May 1. Judge Lynn will be the district's first woman chief judge. Judge Solis, who became the first Hispanic chief judge when he took the position in 2014, handled several high-profile cases during his 25 years on the federal bench, including striking down the city of Irving’s method of electing city council members because it diluted the voting power of Hispanic residents.
Harry Potter is breaking his silence. No single individual knows more secrets and behind-the-scenes details of the historic $17 billion Texas tobacco litigation and the evidence that sent his boss, Texas Attorney General Dan Morales, to jail. For two decades, Potter refused to talk. Until now. He says a call from livid Wall Street corporate lawyer Arthur Golden in 1998 led Potter to quietly snoop into the computer files of Morales' secretary, where he found three previously secret, backdated contracts. “That phone call led to Dan going to prison,” Potters says.
Frequent patent lawsuit filers pulled back their new litigation between January and March, the possible result of bringing hundreds of cases last November to avoid rule changes, according to a report.
Two decades ago, Texas AG Dan Morales launched the single largest and most important public health lawsuit in history when he sued Big Tobacco for reimbursement of smoking-related medical costs. He said the case would force cigarette makers to seller safer products, prohibit tobacco companies from marketing to teenagers and require the industry to fund anti-smoking programs. Was the litigation a success? The Texas Lawbook examines the historic $17.6 billion settlement and follows the money. Did Texas politicians piss away billions on booze and cigarettes? How much have the Big Five Texas trial lawyers received? And why Harry Potter may be the most important person in the entire litigation.
Andrew Weiss and his employees at BSP Software celebrated in 2011 when the company received patent No. 7,945,589 from the USPTO. Weiss allegedly circulated a photo of himself holding the ‘589 patent while wearing a t-shirt which read, “Muck Fotio.” BSP employees viewed the pic while singing “We Are the Champions.” This is the inside story of a simple patent infringement dispute that started in Chicago four years ago but spread to federal courts in Sherman and Dallas and now includes allegations of patent fraud and the use of a fake identity. The article chronicles a legal battle that has gotten personal and expensive between BSP Software/Avnet and Dallas-based Motio Inc.
A federal jury in Dallas late Thursday rejected claims by an internal pharmaceutical industry whistle-blower that giant Abbott Laboratories wrongly induced physicians and hospitals to submit hundreds of millions in falsely coded claims to Medicare.
A recent Harris County jury award to a mineral rights owner against Exxon Mobil is just one of many that could be headed oil and gas companies’ way.
Pipeline giant the Williams Cos. has sued its potential acquirer Energy Transfer over a private equity offering, the company announced Wednesday.
A North Texas federal jury has rewarded two businessmen with a nearly 6,800 percent return on their $1,500 investment four years ago in a Dallas-based gaming channel on YouTube. A four-woman, three-man jury ruled Friday that Videogames YouTube Channel and two of its owner/operators conspired together to breach their contract agreements with two outside investors and defraud the men of profits from the business they were promised.
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