Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we offer details on a recent $1.3 million arbitration win a team from Greenberg Traurig secured for Frost Bank, identify the law firm pursuing litigation in the wake of a fatal helicopter crash in Houston and explain a ruling from U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman that will likely change who can build transmission lines in Texas.
Correct Transmission, which offices in Allen, rested its case Friday after a damages expert testified that Nokia owes $35 million for its alleged infringement of three patents covering technology used in routers. Nokia denies it uses the patented technology and is challenging the validity of one of the patents.
Former president Donald Trump has hired Amarillo lawyer Christopher D. Parker, a shareholder at Farris, Parker & Hubbard, as one of three attorneys to file a lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting claiming that the TV network committed “unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive and substantial news distortion” by editing interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris that were broadcast in early October.
Lawyers for a Dallas-area company that holds the patents told an East Texas jury tech giant Nokia of America Corporation used its technology to improve Nokia routers without paying royalties as trial began Wednesday. Nokia denies it uses the patented technology and alleges the marketplace wasn’t interested in the technology.
Justices on the newly created court engaged in spirited questioning over appeals involving DPS’ Uvalde school shooting records, the AG’s biometric data case against Google, and the firing of a Crowley ISD teacher who pinned down a student. Lawmakers gave the court broad authority over appeals involving the state and cases from the new business courts.
The Monday ruling from a three-judge panel undoes a September 2023 order from U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn dismissing the complaint and effectively kicking the case to arbitration. Judge Lynn had concluded that the union failed to show there was “anti-union animus” that would have created an exception and allowed the case to proceed in district court.
Dallas-area company Correct Transmission will try to persuade a federal East Texas jury that Finland-based tech giant Nokia infringed on five of its patents during a trial set to begin Wednesday in Marshall. Correct Transmission has sued other companies over the patents it inherited from a bankrupt Israel-based company.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we detail a 9-8 ruling from the Fifth Circuit that wiped out a National Labor Relations Board ruling against Tesla, offer new details on who is defending SpaceX in a fight with a neighboring South Texas landowner, and highlight a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that hits pause on a Fifth Circuit ruling in a case centered on the regulation of horseracing.
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