Listening to the oral arguments before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday confirmed what advocates for reproductive rights feared upon seeing the three-judge panel selected to hear the Texas’ appeal of a lower-court ruling striking down two sections of House Bill 2, the 2013 legislation enacted to…
It’s September 11, and the harshest restriction in Texas’ new abortion law, its requirement that all abortions take place at an ambulatory surgical center, has yet to go into effect. HB2 was supposed to become the law of Texas on September 1, and the ACS rule would have immediately shuttered…
Jerry Jones and the Cowboys are being sued for sexual assault and alleged subsequent cover-up. In a lawsuit filed in Dallas late Monday night, Jana Weckerly says that over the course of the evening documented in a series of graphic tweets posted in early August, Jones rubbed and grabbed her…
After the Texas Supreme Court issued its opinion on Friday in Kinney v. Barnes, Robert Kinney’s attorney declared victory. Kinney, an Austin businessman, had sued his former boss to force the removal of online postings accusing Kinney of taking bribes. “This is a win for Robert and other people who…
Few people outside of public health advocates and consumer groups used to pay much attention to the Food and Drug Administration’s confusing, shadowy process for approving medical devices to the market. When patients find themselves suffering after a surgery that was supposed to help them — like, say, a hip…
It’s been more than two years since a federal administrative judge told Tricare, the Department of Defense-run healthcare program for military families, to pay for Kaitlyn Samuels’ physical therapy. And for more than two years, Tricare has been stubbornly ignoring the decision. That’s Tricare’s prerogative. The administrative ruling carries all…
Dallas caterer and restaurateur Andrew Ormsby, who operates an eponymous catering company out of the Cityplace tower and is one of the people behind the Ku De Ta day resort, filed a lawsuit in Dallas County accusing Domenic Massimilian, a Cornell University lacrosse player, of assault. Massimilian, who played high…
From the sound of it, at least as his parents tell it, Charles and Kristie Cripps’ son was a pretty normal kid. He had some behavioral issues, largely stemming from ADHD, like insulting his classmates’ penis sizes and careening around his school in the manner typical of adolescent boys. Because…
Over the course of four hours, the Katy Trail Ice House Outpost in Plano served Benjamin Crosby and Joe Grams the equivalent of 43 alcoholic drinks, a lawsuit filed in Dallas district court on Thursday claims. Robert and Cheryl Crosby, Benjamin Crosby’s parents, say that the ice house did this…
In the year-plus since the West fertilizer plant explosion, the tragedy has made its way to where it was always destined: the courts. Around 200 plaintiffs, mostly people who had family members killed or property destroyed, have filed suits. El Dorado Chemical Company and CF Industries are two fertilizer suppliers…
The regulations the Dallas City Council might eventually maybe get around to putting on Uber, Lyft, and the like could include a provision requiring a certain portion of their fleets to be handicapped-accessible. But there are already laws in place requiring transportation providers to accommodate passengers with disabilities: the federal…
Remember Brad Ward? He’s the guy we told you about last month who FedEx says scammed more than $70,000 in free shipping from the company using a series of fraudulent shipping accounts. At the time, Ward told us he had no idea what FedEx was talking about. Thursday, Ward submitted…
You don’t get to be a billionaire — or OK, now just a high multi-millionaire — by letting people skate on debts. Our favorite local college football fan, YMCA patron and wind energy enthusiast is no exception. Last summer, T. Boone Pickens sued William Franke, founder of Swift Boat Veterans…
When last Unfair Park checked in on Mark Burroughs, the then sitting Denton mayor was holding hostage a piece of artwork belonging previous owner of his Arts District luxury condo, socialite Angela Barrett. Barrett sued the Burroughs for the return of “Vertigo,” a Teresita Fernandez sculpture. Earlier this month a…
See update at bottom.Agape is a Christian organization that lends crisis housing support to women, their children and unaccompanied children in need. They provide shelter to homeless women and children, as well as community ministry and counseling. They operate out of four residential homes as Household Care Facilities, according to…
For all its walkability and easy access to food and drink, the type of dense, urban living embodied by Uptown does have its drawbacks. Price is one. The three-bedroom townhomes that line Worthington Street are valued on the tax rolls at upward of a half million dollars. Another minus: Loud…
Your friendly neighborhood strip club, it’s safe to say, is no fan of the $5-per-patron “pole tax” the Texas legislature saw fit to levy in 2007. Its displeasure has been expressed in two ways: by refusing to pay (the tax has so far raised less than a third of the…
When the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality took air samples from near Bob and Lisa Parr’s Wise County ranch on several occasions in 2010, their conclusions varied little. The levels of possibly harmful volatile organic compounds were too low to cause “adverse health effects” Such chemicals “were either not detected…
For the past three-plus years, Dallas County District Judge Carlos Cortez has been fighting to keep potentially damaging allegations about his personal life secret. On Wednesday, Cortez lost the fight. A Texas appeals court decided that, even though none of the allegations against him resulted in a formal determination of…
Endorsements from southern Dallas’ Democratic heavyweights (i.e. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, state Senator Royce West, County Commissioner John Wiley Price) and the natural advantages of an incumbent in a down-ballot race weren’t quite enough to propel Dallas County misdemeanor court judge Etta Mullin to reelection. She won just 36.4 percent…
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is either very bad at building and managing staircases, or is just a convenient entity to blame when people suffer accidents on those staircases. A lawsuit filed last week says that Myung Oh fell down the museum’s concrete steps and injured his neck…
Dietrich Sims is a controversial immigration judge whose unusually high asylum-denial rate and conduct drew criticism from advocates, and even government lawyers.
