Trials

SMU Student Donald Cuba Found Not Guilty of Rape

A Dallas County jury has found Donald Cuba not guilty of rape, The Dallas Morning News' Melissa Repko is reporting. Cuba, a 20-year-old junior, was accused of raping a fellow student in a dorm room early on the morning of February 10, 2012. As we wrote this morning, the trial has offered a few glim ... More >>

An Enraged, Drunken Golfer Nearly Killed a Guy Who Tried to Play Through, Lawsuit Claims

On February 3, Clay Carpenter and two golfing buddies went to hit around at The Golf Club at the Resort in Fort Worth. They made it through the front nine okay, but ran into a group of four golfers on number 12. Carpenter's group was fine with waiting behind the foursome, but they were soon approac ... More >>

Victims' Families Sue Crime-Scene Cleanup Company and Crew

Aftermath Inc. refers to itself as a "biohazard restoration company", more commonly known as crime-scene cleanup: The company's employees go in after murders, suicides, injuries, hoarding cases and other seriously unpleasant situations. But now three of their Texas employees are being sued in Dallas ... 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 >>

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 >>

Strippers Have Rights. But Do They Want Them?

In courthouses across the country, lawyers are fighting for strippers' rights -- and winning. But dancers are worried the lawsuits will cut into their cash flow.

Price Rally Lesson: Time for Plan B

The Lord doesn't always watch over fools.

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 >>

City Isn't Scared Of Those Lawsuits Filed Yesterday By Firefighters, Police Officers

Patrick MichelsDallas City Attorney Tom Perkins​Yesterday, you'll recall, those firefighters, police officers and assorted other first responders filed four amended lawsuits related to the 1979 referendum that gave 'em all pay raises (for how long's the billion-dollar question). We're still waitin ... More >>

Yelp Lawsuit Widens: From Washington to Chicago to L.A., Plaintiffs Charge Extortion

​ Nine companies have joined the proposed class action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujunga, California, to Washington, D.C. They include businesses rangi ... More >>

Why the Trinity River Project Could Be a Windfall for the Lawyer Who Sues the Army Corps of Engineers

On the Bob's Steak & Chop House Hotline, Bankruptcy and Criminal Cases Collide

​A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that the U.S. Trustee handling Bob's Steak & Chop House's Chapter 11 reorganization wanted Judge Harlin D. Hale to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to replace owner Bob Sambol. Because, see, as far as Willliam Neary's concerned, Sambol -- operating here as Sil ... More >>

Democrats Get Bucks from Trial Lawyers, but Redo on Tort "Reform" Unlikely

Texas Mutual Says Thanks, But No Thanks, to State Oversight

Texas’ leading workers’ comp insurer says we don’t need courts and juries watching over them. Yeah, right.

American Toxic

The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

For Love, Aryan Brotherhood Killer Confesses

The prison gang member and killer stands ready to clear his wife for his crimes

Boning Up in Fort Worth, Baby

Those DNA Lawsuits Just Keep on Coming

DA Watkins: "Justice at Its Best"

Almost Home-Free

Emily Dowdy gets off the Oklahoma railroad

Highland Park Village Among Shopping Centers Suing DCAD

Law Briefs

Bully on the Bench

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

TXI: Guilty. Now, Hand Over $20 Million.

Membership Has Privileges

Former Cowboy Great Claims Union Sacking Old Pros' Licensing Fees

Lost in Transition

Re: A Teacher Sues DISD...

Does the DA's Office Have an Open-Door Policy? Pardon, Open-File Policy.

Follywood

A B-actress, computer mayhem and families feudin'! Making a movie with your rich friends is just courting disaster.

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

If You Can't Argue the Facts...

Plus: Every Picture Tells a Story

The Icebox Revisited

Houston had one of its most shocking race murders 45 years ago. But exactly whose tragedy was it?

Where the Boys Are

It's a man's world at Plano-based Rent-A-Center, a lawsuit alleges

Bottle Rockets Downtown

A lawsuit complaining about election fraud could bust things wide open

Bugs in the Tubs

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

Killing machine

It is 6:07 p.m. John Albert Burks salutes the Oakland Raiders and says goodbye to his friends. Minutes later, he is a dead man. This year's 21st execution.

Presumed guilty

Odell Barnes awaits execution on March 1 -- despite new evidence that he didn't commit the crime

Big-time payback

After ignoring a 1979 ordinance guaranteeing pay parity among firefighters and police officers, Dallas may owe as much as $150 million

The Cult of Darlie

A cast of Fellini-esque characters claiming they possess new evidence keep the Routier murder case in the national spotlight

Buzz

The Race Not Run

Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

The Lie Detector

From the mayor of Atlanta, who was unjustly accused of graft, to a California man wrongly sentenced to life in a Texas prison, polygraph examiner Eric Holden found the truth that helped set them free

Choosing sides

The race for judge in Dallas' domestic-violence court raises questions of bias

Crime and no punishment

A legal loophole lets illegal immigrants get out of jail nearly free

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

The haunting

To the grief of his children and his wife's family, Walker Railey is resurrecting his story

Honky-tonk from Hell

Liquor and lawsuits keep flowing at the legendary Crystal Chandelier

Crime Pays

How the Feds let S&L swindler Clifford Sinclair get away with millions

'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part II)

Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents - or their religion?