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Legal experts say it is the largest civil judgment ever awarded by a Dallas state court judge.

Lawyers across the state are getting involved in pro bono projects to help the migrant children arriving from the border crisis, but Texas’ highest ranking judge says more of them need to step up.

A nine-member federal jury just ended former Dallas CEO William Moore’s 25-year journey to punish the postal inspectors he claims conspired — unsuccessfully — to send him to prison in the 1980s, and he’ll have to be satisfied with having had his day in court. The unanimous verdict was in favor of the five former postal workers he sued, and Moore will not collect any of the $231 million he had sought.

Mounds of attorneys from the firm’s Dallas office helped Carlson Restaurants sell the franchise to two private equity firms.

The Houston-based propylene producer was acquired by Kansas-based Flint Hills Resources, which is a subsidiary of the giant private multinational corporation, Koch Industries.

The companies, NRG and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration, claim the JV will build the world’s largest cost-combustion carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facility on an existing coal plant in Fort Bend County, Texas.

Following the spinoff, Noble will own and operate one of the most modern, versatile and technically advanced fleets in the offshore drilling industry.

A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that the University of Texas’ use of affirmative action is a fair and constitutionally permissible approach to admitting students.