Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has won dismissal of civil insider trading accusations filed against him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—at least for now.
A federal magistrate has found patent lawyer John van Loben Sels in contempt of court and threatened him with a 48-hour jail sentence for a question he asked during voir…
Billionaire R. Allen Stanford had hoped to live with his girlfriend in a luxury apartment in Houston, albeit wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, while preparing for his trial on federal…
Siding with the world’s biggest health care company, a federal jury in Texas awarded a record-breaking $1.67 billion today to a Johnson & Johnson unit after five hours of deliberation.
After wrestling with the concept of deliberate indifference, a federal jury in Texas today awarded $5 million to a man wrongfully convicted in a kidnapping and rape case more than…
After the approval of a $500,000 bond that would allow Texas billionaire and accused swindler R. Allen Stanford to be released from prison prior to trial in August, a U.S.…
After the Senate began gearing up yesterday for a historic impeachment trial of an imprisoned U.S. District Court judge, he had apparently already decided to throw in the towel.
A South Texas College of Law graduate has filed a $1 million breach of contract suit against prominent Florida criminal defense lawyer Cheney Mason, claiming the lawyer’s statements—on national TV…
Exhausted from preparing for a murder trial, a Texas lawyer says, he had an accident en route to court on Tuesday and was charged with driving while intoxicated even though…
A day after a Texas grand jury indicted one of its former lawyers, Austin-based Clark Thomas & Winters agreed to pay Pedernales Electric Cooperative $4.1 million to settle a suit…
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