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Angela Morris is ALM Media's Texas litigation reporter. She covers lawsuits in all levels of Texas state and federal courts. Based in Austin, Morris earned journalism and government degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, and since then, has worked primarily as a reporter and writer, but also has skills in videography, photography and podcasts. Follow her on Twitter at @AMorrisReports.
August 19, 2019 | Litigation Daily
“I want a conviction,” said Houston attorney Michelle Acosta about San Antonio lawyer Allan Manka, who was charged with Class C misdemeanor simple assault for allegedly grabbing Acosta's buttocks. “Giving him deferred adjudication is a small slap on the wrist.”
By Angela Morris
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August 13, 2019 | Litigation Daily
“The only reasonable explanation for the slowdown is concerted action on the part of plaintiff’s mechanics,” wrote U.S. District Judge John McBryde.
By Angela Morris
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August 12, 2019 | Litigation Daily
Store security could emerge as a central issue. “If you are going to operate as a store, with that many people in it, you need to be doing what’s reasonable to protect those people,” said Rob Ammons, founding partner of The Ammons Law Firm in Houston.
By Angela Morris
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July 12, 2019 | Litigation Daily
Smith Clinesmith associate Paul J. Downey of Dallas, who represented plaintiff Dorcus Simmons in the case, said his firm was weighing options to appeal the ruling.
By Angela Morris
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July 11, 2019 | Litigation Daily
Four women with injuries from transvaginal mesh medical devices alleged in a legal-malpractice lawsuit that their attorneys and law firms botched their cases by missing the statute of limitations. In a surprising twist, one of the law firm defendants has sued the plaintiffs' attorneys, alleging they improperly obtained its client lists.
By Angela Morris
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July 8, 2019 | Litigation Daily
In letter briefs, all of the parties agree that there's still a case or controversy in the appeal since the federal government has continued enforcing Obamacare as it appealed a district court's December 2018 ruling that the entire law is unconstitutional.
By Angela Morris
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June 27, 2019 | Litigation Daily
"He came over from China nearly three decades ago and became an American citizen. One of the reasons he did that is to pursue the dream of being an entrepreneur and inventor. They tried to stop him and effectively crush that dream," said Tyz Law Group founder Ryan Tyz.
By Angela Morris
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June 26, 2019 | Litigation Daily
"It's important to note that the plaintiffs were not actually accusing Kinder Morgan of doing anything wrong. They were really instead complaining that the eminent domain process in Texas is somehow unconstitutional," said Baker Botts partner Gavin Villareal, who represented Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline and Permian Highway Pipeline.
By Angela Morris
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June 25, 2019 | Litigation Daily
“We're not going to let this stop what we all need to do. I don't know that was ever spoken, but the feeling was, 'We have a job to do, and we are going to do it. We're not going to let what happened interfere,'" attorney Mark Strachan said.
By Angela Morris
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June 24, 2019 | Litigation Daily
“The evidence of Pepper Hamilton's conduct in violation of the court's orders is so 'clear, direct, weighty and convincing' that the court reaches this conclusion with clear conviction and without hestitancy,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of Waco wrote.
By Angela Morris
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