By C. Ryan Barber | July 31, 2017
Citing court rules, but perhaps also sympathizing with regular readers of legal filings, a federal judge in Washington found 48 reasons to send a regulatory agency back to the drawing board on a motion to dismiss. Judge James Boasberg ordered a motion to dismiss be "stricken" for violating a local rule that prohibits "excessive footnoting." The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's bottom-of-the-page verbosity, Boasberg wrote, "appears to be an effort to circumvent page limitations."
By John Council | July 27, 2017
Guns and booze are a notoriously dangerous combination. But a host's decision to allow both at a barbecue wasn't negligent, a Texas court has ruled.
By John Council | July 26, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has partially upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that workplace rules by cell phone carriers T-Mobile and MetroPCS banning photography or recording on corporate premises illegally restricts its employees from exercising their right to unionize.
By John Council | July 19, 2017
Two hotel owners became reasonably upset after spending millions building out a downtown Houston Holiday Inn only to lose their franchise license agreement, so they sued the national chain in a Houston federal court.
By John Council | July 3, 2017
The all-Republican Texas high court said it was bound to follow U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence allowing restrictions on corporate campaign contributions.
By John Council | June 20, 2017
University Park police found David Lewis' body in his home after friends hadn't heard from him in days.
By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2017
Lower courts don't offer much guidance on how to resolve clashes between presidential speech and the U.S. Justice Department's litigation positions, Kate Shaw of Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law found in a forthcoming article. In "Beyond the Bully Pulpit: Presidential Speech in the Courts," Shaw undertook what she called "the first systematic examination of presidential speech in the courts." Shaw talks about her review in this Q&A with senior Washington correspondent Marcia Coyle.
By John Council | June 13, 2017
The underlying case looks at whether an attorney can set up a competing lawyer for barratry.
By Scott Graham | May 19, 2017
The jury couldn't decide if retired appeals judge Sheila Sonenshine made misrepresentations on her JAMS bio, but they decided that didn't cause harm to venture capitalist Kevin Kinsella.
By John Council | May 1, 2017
A Dallas lawyer convinced an Eastern District of Texas federal jury that General Electric had monopoly power over an anesthesia gas machine repair business and won $43.8 million in damages for 17 plaintiffs. Under the Sherman Act, the recovery is subject to trebling to $131.4 million.
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