On Aug. 31, visiting Judge David Peeples granted a motion to recuse 193rd District Judge Carl Ginsberg from presiding over Patten, et al. v. Johnson, et al., a suit filed by three Dallas lawyers against Fish & Richardson, JAMS and others.
In their May 23 First Amended Petition, Ashley Brigham Patten, Jacques Yves LeBlanc and Robert C. Karlseng allege they were partners in title services businesses with H. Jonathan Cooke. Cooke sued the trio in 2006, and the business dispute went to arbitration. As alleged, JAMS arbitrator Robert W. Faulkner awarded Cooke $22 million, including $6 million in fees for his lawyers M. Brett Johnson and Geoffrey Harper. Ginsberg confirmed the award in Cooke v. Karlseng, et al., but Dallas’ 5th Court of Appeals vacated it and remanded the case to the trial court, where it is pending before Ginsberg.
