Commercial Litigation Archives - Page 83 of 138

Randy Sorrels: $352M Houston Jury Verdict ‘Could Have Been More’

If anything, the noted Houston plaintiffs’ lawyer claims, jurors should have given Ulysses Cruz, a paralyzed airport service worker, more for the lifetime of pain and anguish he faces after being hit by a van on a tarmac at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. And Sorrels believes the verdict exceeding one-third of a billion dollars will survive appeal.

November 1, 2021 Bruce Tomaso

Tarrant County Court Denies Injunction in American-Sabre Courtroom Fight

A Fort Worth state judge this week denied a temporary injunction sought by American Airlines that would have enjoined ticket distribution vendor Sabre Holdings Corp. from utilizing its New Airline Storefront display product and paying travel agents incentives to book higher-priced Delta Airlines tickets over American tickets.

October 29, 2021 Natalie Posgate

Shearman & Sterling Snags Litigation Pair from Haynes and Boone

The securities and class action defense experts are notable additions for Shearman, which has focused most of its growth in Texas on the corporate transactional side to date.

October 27, 2021 Brooks Igo

Encompass Health Sues DFW-Based Founder for Violating Noncompete & Trade Secrets Theft

A new lawsuit in Dallas County District Court pits Alabama-rooted Bradley Arant and Encompass Health Corp. against former Encompass CEO April Anthony, a Dallas millionaire and large figure in the at-home health world who left the company she founded this summer for a competitor.

October 27, 2021 Natalie Posgate

Bench and Bar Mourns Death of Former NDTX Chief Judge Jorge Solis

Jorge Solis was a tough prosecutor, a fair and learned judge, a mentor for dozens of lawyers and once considered a candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. A former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Solis died Friday of an apparent heart attack while attending Mass. He was 70.

October 11, 2021 Mark Curriden

BMC and IBM Prepare to Head to Trial in SDTX; $791M Potentially at Stake

After four years of heavy litigating, lawyers at Bracewell, Yetter Coleman and Quinn Emanuel are preparing for battle. An upcoming trial between the lawyers’ clients, IBM and KKR-owned BMC, will involve mainframe software, a lucrative project for AT&T and a nine-figure damages model.

October 11, 2021 Natalie Posgate

Time’s Up in Texas: State Expands Scope of Liability for Workplace Sexual Harassment Claims

In a surprise move for the typically employer-friendly state, Texas laws on sexual harassment officially became more protective of employees than federal law on Sept. 1. The “new Texas Sexual Harassment Law” expands liability for sexual harassment to employers of all sizes, and to individual managers, who may now be held personally liable for failing to remedy sexual harassment. The new statutes also heightened the standards on employers to take action and extends the deadline to file charges of discrimination based on sexual harassment.

October 8, 2021 Kelly Robreno Koster

Another Patent Infringement Defense Verdict in Waco in Win for Google

A federal jury in U.S. District Court Judge Alan Albright’s court ruled this week that Texas-based Profectus Technology failed to prove that Google infringed on Profectus’s patent for a “digital picture display frame,” an internet visual interface, in developing the Google Nest Hub.

October 8, 2021 Bruce Tomaso

Houston Federal Court Ends Long-running Fight between GenOn and Bank

A federal district court in Houston has followed the recommendation of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones to dismiss all remaining litigation between French bank Natixis Funding Corp. and GenOn Mid-Atlantic over a $130 million credit arrangement gone south for two coal-fired power plants in Maryland.

October 4, 2021 Natalie Posgate

Susman Godfrey Prevails in $3.89B Dispute over Puerto Rican Fuel Contracts

After 12 years of litigation, a federal judge rules Susman’s client, the Dutch energy company Vitol, is entitled to keep the money it received for supplying fuel oil to Puerto Rico’s state-run electric utility between 2005 and 2009.

September 29, 2021 Bruce Tomaso