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Jim Sacher has filed hundreds of lawsuits and handled more than 1,000 allegations of discrimination during his 28 years as lead lawyer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston. Now, he is retiring. In an interview with Houston Chronicle journalist L.M. Sixel, Sacher discusses the progress his agency has made in trying to assure a level playing field for employees.

Volkswagen will pay the state of Texas $50 million to settle a deceptive trade practices lawsuit brought against the automaker. The settlement is part of an $14.7 billion nationwide agreement to resolve allegations that VW mislead consumers by promoting diesel vehicles as “clean” even though the German manufacturer knew the cars were equipped with software to cheat on emissions tests.

T. Boone Pickens is 88-years-old. His hearing and vision are poor. He tires quickly. The oil and gas mogul admits he’s made billions of dollars and lost billions of dollars. But seated in a witness chair in a West Texas courtroom for two days last week, Pickens said several hundred million of those dollars he lost were actually stolen from him and he wants it back.