Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we offer details on two high-dollar disputes involving the leasing of railcars, the former chief financial officer of a Dallas nonprofit goes to prison for embezzling $2 million, and the parties that lost a patent case seeking more than $400 million in damages ask for a redo.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we detail a brawl that took place in the sixth-floor library of the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse in Houston, Deloitte agrees to pay $21.5 million to resolve an employment discrimination case in Dallas, and Texas reaches a settlement with Meta that will total about $1 billion.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Texas Instruments is dealt a blow by the Texas Business Court in its quest to get an injunction against a competitor and a half dozen amicus briefs have been filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by parties in favor of preserving a Texas gun restriction penal code.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a San Francisco-based research and data company gets two qui tam wins in the Northern District of Texas, and an Irving man settles insider trading allegations lodged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a hedge fund manager goes to prison for failing to report millions in income, and a bankruptcy law firm operating in Texas is pinged for filing cases with false financial information.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we highlight one plaintiff lawyer’s thoughts on Johnson & Johnson’s proposed $5.5 billion settlement of ovarian cancer cases, and detail Buc-ee’s latest court battle to protect its brand.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, the Dallas court of appeals agrees a trial court got it wrong by forcing the parties in a breach of contract case into a bench trial when one requested trial by jury, and an automotive equipment manufacturer sued by Tesla tells the court the company named the wrong defendant.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a direct-to-consumer eyewear company alleges Perkins Coie’s failure to conduct basic diligence ahead of a planned acquisition cost it $50 million, the appellate courts in Houston wipe out a pair of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts, and a Dallas seafood company draws a fine from the federal government for mislabeling Chilean salmon as a more expensive product.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a jury in Austin determines a company that makes synthetic turf fields “fraudulently concealed” material defects in the product and awarded an injured former high school lacrosse player about $2.7 million, and we detail two cases involving issues of first impression.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, an appellate panel in Dallas wipes out a $7.8 million final judgment against a Munsch Hardt client, and in a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a team of Baker Botts lawyers successfully defended its client’s $213 million trade secrets win.
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