Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
The Supreme Court of Texas in two cases this month limited municipal immunity for cities engaged in discretionary activity. The court ruled in a third case that city officers must act within their legal authority for immunity to apply.
The unanimous decisions are expected to impact pending cases, including a $19 million gas lease fight between the City of Dallas and Trinity East Energy.
U.S. IPO activity in Q1 fell to its lowest level since the height of the financial crisis in 2009.
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.
Despite paying as much as $200,000 for their legal education, nearly one-fourth of the 2,072 Texas law school graduates of 2015 are unemployed or underemployed, according to new data compiled by The Texas Lawbook. More than 13 percent of newly-minted Texas lawyers are unemployed, which is actually worse than the nine percent of 2010 Texas law school graduates who could not find a job after graduation – the year the Great Recession impacted the Texas legal industry the most. This article has all the details.
A federal grand jury in Houston has charged that a Chevron oil trader and a Houston energy consultant engaged in international commercial bribery scheme and funneled the money they received from kickbacks into offshore bank accounts, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said Thursday.
A federal grand jury in Houston has charged that a Chevron oil trader and a Houston energy consultant engaged in international commercial bribery scheme and funneled the money they received from kickbacks into offshore bank accounts, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said Thursday.
A federal grand jury in Houston has charged that a Chevron oil trader and a Houston energy consultant engaged in international commercial bribery scheme and funneled the money they received from kickbacks into offshore bank accounts, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said Thursday.
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