Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
It began as a boardroom dispute then morphed into a legal feud involving Carl Icahn. But the much-anticipated trial between Cheniere Energy and its founder Charif Souki, ended before it began Thursday when the parties announced they'd reached a walkaway agreement. Natalie Posgate reports.
Mike McKool and a group of McKool Smith lawyers asked a San Diego federal court jury to order Apple to pay their client $85 million for patent infringement. On Friday, the jury did just that. The Texas Lawbook has details.
A founder of an Irving software company has gone to court to stop his company from making an acquisition – and it’s worked so far. Brian Womack of the Dallas Business Journal has the story.
The annual Bench Bar Conference for the Northern District of Texas last week was a non-stop crush of candid judicial observations and advice litigators ignore at their risk. Here's a sampling of what attendees heard.
Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA joins 37 other companies suing the railroads that control 90% of the nation’s rail freight traffic.
Pick your reason, but by the time Barack Obama left after two terms in office, 18 of 52 U.S. District Court seats in Texas were vacant. That's more than a third. Today, only one seat is vacant. Knowing the new judges might be important in the New Year, Mario Nguyen of Locke Lord offers help.
The ruling is important because a victory for the plaintiffs could have had implications for the drilling rig industry and possibly other blue collar fields because it may have obligated companies to pay workers for the time spent putting on and taking off personal protective gear, Norton Rose Fulbright, the prevailing law firm said.
(UPDATED to include Texas responses). Litigation rose slightly in most dispute categories in 2019, but respondents in the annual Norton Rose Fulbright litigation survey say they are worried that economic turbulence in 2020 will provoke a rise in lawsuits over the coming year. The Lawbook has details.
The Houston Bar Association has released its bi-annual evaluation of state and federal trial and appellate judges. The best rated judge mustered a “B” grade. Dozens of civil court judges got straight “F’s.” U.S. District Chief Judge Lee Rosenthal got the highest score, while Houston District Court judges Ursula Hall and Dedra Davis received the lowest rating.
Harris County filed suit against three insulin manufacturers this week, accusing the firms of colluding to set artificially high prices for the medicine and other diabetic treatments.
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