Apps for popular social networking sites and games including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and possibly Angry Birds are accessing confidential personal address book data without user permission, contends a federal suit…
In a move that puts the feds a step closer to getting their hands on the assets of onetime billionaire R. Allen Stanford’s business operations, but doesn’t assure that they…
A federal jury in Houston hearing the fraud case against R. Allen Stanford is having trouble reaching verdict on at least some of the 14 counts against the onetime billionaire…
A Texas federal judge ruled today that he would not block a state law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion, following Feb 6, 2012 10:59 PM CST
A Texas trusts and estates lawyer was briefly taken into custody and faces a potential felony case after reportedly forgetting that she had a loaded handgun in her carry-on computer…
A federal judge in Houston has nixed an effort by lawyers for R. Allen Stanford to withdraw from his defense less than two weeks before he is scheduled to stand…
The latest lawyers for a onetime billionaire—whose legal representation has been a revolving door for a dozen or so attorneys—are seeking court permission to withdraw less than two weeks before…
A federal judge has been selected as the first dean of a new Texas law school expected to open in 2014 in a renovated former department store in downtown Dallas.
Ruling only six days after hearing oral arguments, a federal appeals court has allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring women to get sonograms before abortions.
A former enforcement chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s office in Fort Worth, Texas, has reportedly agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a civil complaint by the U.S. Department…
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