Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
State District Judge Megan Fahey granted summary judgment to Fort Worth-based Tug Hill Inc. in a lawsuit brought by a former executive. The ex-exec argued a verbal agreement was reached with the company’s president that entitled him to management incentive units that should have been paid out to him in an amount over $10 million.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we look at the lawyers who helped secure recent rulings barring the federal government from regulating horseracing and from enforcing bans on both noncompete agreements and LNG export approvals.
In early June, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred to U.S. District Judge Ada Brown a group of proposed class action lawsuits brought by dozens of lawyers over the AT&T data breach. Lawyers representing the plaintiffs — who are among the 73 million current and former customers who had their personal information released on the dark web — are already jockeying for leadership positions in the sprawling litigation.
John Scott, formerly of Scott, Clawater & Houston, his wife and son were seriously injured in a wreck while visiting family for Christmas in 2020. A Dallas County jury determined a drunken driver was liable after a four-day trial.
A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found Verizon infringed on two patents obtained by Dallas-based General Access Solutions in the early 2000s. Verizon vowed to appeal the verdict.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we offer an update from the most recent hearing in the lawsuit stemming from the $788 million sale of Primexx Energy, a threatened lawsuit over the death of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson yields a settlement, and six officers and directors of a Houston-based clinic see an end to a $285 million breach claim.
Consumers depend on insurance companies to provide protection and support in trying times, but what happens when even that insurance company becomes vulnerable to cyber risk? Just like any other business, it is critical that insurers assess their own cyber risk.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Haynes Boone helps Fox News escape a defamation lawsuit stemming from the Allen Outlet Mall shooting, a Metroplex resident is sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud over his allegedly bogus $200 million offer to buy Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit and a former San Antonio-area city councilwoman is vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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