The Texas Supreme Court has vacated a lower appellate court’s opinion concerning an interlocutory appeal and voided the appeal itself, explaining that there is no jurisdiction to hear the matter…
A federal appeals court has upheld a sanction of nearly $30,000 against a plaintiff’s firm in a products liability case for accidentally distributing material it was required to keep secret…
A former branch manager who claimed she was fired from a Texas title company because she refused to dye her gray hair wasn’t able to persuade a Houston federal judge…
A Texas man who told a 911 dispatcher he needed an ambulance for a man he beat for raping his 5-year-old daughter won’t be charged in the death that resulted.
At a press conference earlier this week, a defense lawyer for a Texas personal injury lawyer accused of masterminding three failed contract murder attempts against his wife contended that his…
Defiant to the end, onetime Texas billionaire financier R. Allen Stanford blamed the feds for what prosecutors have portrayed as a $5.9 billion to $7 billion swindle of investors and…
In a civil lawsuit, a Texas company describes a stunning claimed fraud of millions of dollars by its former in-house legal chief, who it says set up multiple fake law…
A suspended New York lawyer is accused of creating a fictitious Texas law firm and then using his position as legal affairs chief at a Houston company to funnel $9…
In a brief ruling (PDF) Thursday, a federal appeals court gave short shrift to an effort by a self-described vampire high priest to pursue an in forma pauperis…
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors showed a Brownsville, Texas, jury a $5,000 check written in 2008 by attorney Ray Marchan to the wife of Abel Limas, who was then a state…
A federal prosecutor says a former South Texas judge who has taken a plea in a bribery case could testify as early as Wednesday afternoon against a lawyer accused of…
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