Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
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.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, jurors in East Texas find Samsung infringed another patent, and Texas touts a nearly $34 million settlement with AstraZeneca in a qui tam case where The Lanier Firm and McKool Smith represented the relators.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher secures a big win on appeal for a major Brazilian mining company that was facing a $500 million lawsuit in Nueces County, and a team from King & Spalding beats back class certification in a 6,000-plaintiff antitrust case playing out in federal court in Illinois.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth regional office gets a final judgment against a Mansfield man accused in a $2.9 million fraud, and a company that offers an array of services to fuel retailers turns to the Texas Business Court in pursuit of $21 million in damages.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a Houston appellate court parses who owes a duty of care in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a crash allegedly caused by a driver who was engaging in phone sex, and investigators with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth regional office reach a deal to end claims a Dallas-based real estate investment company president was lying to investors.
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