Civil Trials

Frisco Attorney With A History of Legal Trouble Indicted In $2.8 Million Alleged Oil and Gas Scheme

Police rolled into the roundabout encircling Kelly Gordon Rogers' fountain at his sprawling estate in Frisco recently, with warrants charging him with money laundering, securities fraud and aggravated theft in a $2.8 million oil and gas rip-off. The indictments, issued by a Collin County grand jury ... More >>

IHOP Sued For Employment Discrimination By Fired Muslim Managers

In pancake-related news that's already gone national, four Muslim men of Arab descent are suing IHOP, claiming they were all fired from their managerial positions at DFW-area locations because of their ethnicity and religion. In the suit, filed Tuesday in federal court, Hussein Chamseddine claims ... More >>

Dallas County Constables, Commissioners Court Agree to End Federal Lawsuit. At Least For Now.

​Noticed on PACER this morning something that's gone unnoticed since its filing at the end of last week: That heated lawsuit pitting Dallas County constables against the Dallas County Commissioners Court -- the one involving allegations of retaliation and corruption, the one that dragged everyone ... More >>

Strippers Who Sued Jaguars Claim the Chain Retaliated. And That, Judge Says, Is a No-No.

A Dallas-based strip-club chain facing a class-action lawsuit tried to compel its dancers not to join that legal action -- and even fired a woman who wouldn't comply, or so the strippers claim. In a motion filed earlier this month, the dancers also claim that the clubs foisted the agreements on the ... More >>

NCAA Antitrust Case Hits Dallas Federal Court After Conference USA Won't Turn Over Docs

Via.​Yesterday's massive drop-off at the Earle Cabell is but a pit stop. Sooner than later, more than likely, it will head back to Oakland, where, in July 2009, former UCLA basketball great Ed O'Bannon filed the shot heard 'round the sports world: the antitrust suit alleging that the NCAA steals ... More >>

Judge Will Allow Lawsuit Over Super Bowl XLV Ticket Snafu to Continue, But Jerry's Free to Go

​A little more than nine months after those aggrieved ticketholders left out in the Arlington cold during Super Bowl XLV brought their lawsuits, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn -- she of tough sentences and no nonsense -- has refused to dismiss the breach-of-contract case. But: Lynn did remove th ... More >>

Four Years Later, Judge Rules That Ministries' Case Over Homeless Food Distribution is a Go

​Four long years ago we wrote about two local ministries -- Big Hart Ministries and the Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry-- that filed suit against the city of Dallas in federal court over an ordinance that they say kept them from serving food to the homeless and violated their religious freed ... More >>

Landmark Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Lawuit, Version "2.0," Comes to Dallas Federal Court

Via.​It's been more than a decade since the federal suit first surfaced: Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the sexual discrimination lawsuit that would eventually lead to a class-action suit and the book Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart, whose author ofte ... More >>

Locked Out at Lost Society, Again (Update: Owner in Rockwall Jail for Meth Possession)

​And now we return to the city's enforcement of the Lower Greenville Planned Development District Ordinance, which, as you no doubt recall, went into effect at midnight September 24 and says any venue without a specific use permit and a new certificate of occupancy has to close its doors at midnig ... More >>

Dr Pepper Snapple Group Responds to Dublin Dr Pepper's Response to Corporate's Lawsuit

Via.​Back to the Dr Pepper-on-Dr Pepper lawsuit ...Early this morning we posted Dublin Dr Pepper's response to the lawsuit filed in June by Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is trying to limit Dublin's real-deal Imperial Sugar-spiked soda pop to a six-county area and alleges the oldest Dr ... More >>

Yet Another Federal Deceptive Trade Practices Suit Filed Against Match.com. Wink!

Via.​From time to time we'll come across federal suits filed by scorned subscribers to Preston Center-based Match.com, all of whom more or less say the same thing: The dating service is nothing but a tease, its "winks" little more than hollow promises of hook-ups between prospective partners -- on ... More >>

Mixed Signals: Dallas Drops Ticket Against Bike Helmet Law Opponent, Then Deals Another for Three-Month-Old Complaint

​Paul Woodfield doesn't remember what he was doing on April 8 -- but to help jog his memory, the city of Dallas sent a deputy city marshal to his door yesterday with a subpoena. According to the complaint he was handed, Woodfield was riding his bike around White Rock Lake that day, and he was ... More >>

Both Sides of the City of Dallas's "Billion-Dollar Lawsuit" State Their Case

​No doubt you'll hear plenty more about the city's billion-dollar lawsuit between now and the spring or summer of 2010, when the Supreme Court of Texas rules on whether the city is immune from rescue workers' claims stemming from a 1979 referendum concerning pay raises and two subsequent lawsuits ... More >>

Food For Thought 3.27.09

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Family of Fort Worth Officer Killed in Explosion Sues Ford Motor Co.

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Face It, Most Air Travel is Emotionally Distressing

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Boning Up in Fort Worth, Baby

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Food for Kids or Terror Funding?

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

More of Earth Biofuels' Investors Want Their Money Back -- Like, Now

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Highland Park Village Among Shopping Centers Suing DCAD

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Law Briefs

"At Brinker, we hold the utmost respect for the litigation system; however, we are disappointed in the jury's decision and plan to appeal. We remain steadfast in our belief of the merits of our case." (a spokeswoman for Brinker International Inc. on a federal jury verdict this week awarding $270,00 ... More >>

Bully on the Bench

When big-city lawyers appear in the courtroom of Judge Gene Knize, they better be prepared to duck and cover

Ground Meat

Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

Former Cowboy Great Claims Union Sacking Old Pros' Licensing Fees

Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

City to Club Blue: No, You Pay Up

Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

Something Stinks. And, No, It's Not This Cigarette.

Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

Pubic Enemies

The problems of pointing a laser where the sun don't shine

Apparently, Plano ISD Doesn't Like God

The problems of pointing a laser where the sun don't shine

The Broke Leading the Broke

Plus: Back to China

If You Can't Argue the Facts...

Plus: Every Picture Tells a Story

Up the Crick

To Deep Ellum's problems, add this: an underground raging river of poop

Segregation Forever

How Dallas got what it wanted

Hell Hath No Fury

The good ol' boys at Rent-A-Center raise a white flag--they're licked

Bugs in the Tubs

Texas consumers take on the whirlpool business--and that mysterious black crud shooting out of their bathtub jets

You Say Commie, I Say Nazi

Dallas judges really go for that government authority thing

Bench press

A pack of well-heeled lawyers calls for the head of mercurial Dallas Judge John Marshall

Impossible dreamer

Fearless reformer or legal terrorist? Bobby Wightman-Cervantes makes a run for the Senate. The Texas Bar says he should have his head examined.

Black, white, and blue

Dallas' African-American cops say they are being unfairly disciplined by a racist department. The numbers suggest they're right.

The legal commode

Dallas school board follows ancient legal principle of

nolo brainero

Look back in confusion

Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

Chemical Warrior

When Phyllis Glazer learned a chemical plant was making her East Texas neighbors sick, the wealthy Dallas homemaker could have cut and run. Instead, she chose to stay, fight, and win.

Hypocritic oath

Minutes of a power brokers' meeting show that Fort Worth is guilty of what it accuses Dallas of doing--breaking an agreement over D/FW airport

Payback Time

How two hacked-off Cowboys scored on Channel 5 and Marty Griffin

End run

Did DISD attorney Dennis Eichelbaum try to cut a personal deal at taxpayer expense?

The Ice Man

Diamond broker Bryan Wilson Taylor is so smooth, people say he can charm the horns off a billy goat. If he tries to sell you anything, run.

Falling star

In the black business community, Alphonso Solomon's promise isn't worth much anymore

Rent check

Christina Swann wins federal case

BeloWatch

Christina Swann wins federal case

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part II)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.