Courts

There’s no shortage of stories extolling the genius of John Tatum, the 45-year-old who in 1994 co-founded Genesco Sports Enterprises, the Woodall Rodgers-based consulting group that marries the right product with the right athlete, sport or major league. Sports Business Journal noted in ’08 that “Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s defection was…

Courthouse News brings us this lawsuit filed two days ago in Dallas County District Court: John Tatum and Mary Ann Tatum v. The Dallas Morning News, inc. and Steve Blow. At issue is this column, which appeared in the paper on July 12, 2010: “Shrouding suicide in secrecy leaves its…

Starting September 1, if you’re a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor’s office. You’re going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you “in detail,” and possibly be asked to listen to a…

This morning, Courthouse News directs our attention to a legal dispute playing out in Judge Carlos Cortez’s courtroom: Country Music Television v. Time Warner Cable, filed by McKinney Ave. attorney Michael Raiff. The original complaint itself isn’t available: All of the available filings in the Dallas County District Clerk’s jacket…

It’s been three long months since Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. filed his federal suit, so perhaps you’ve forgotten the details. Long story short: Schroeder — the sole son of Marshall, Texas’s own Wendy Russell Reves — claims the Dallas Museum of Art charmed and flattered and conspired to swindle his…

Seems like only four and a half years ago that Terri Moore joined the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office as Craig Watkins’s first assistant. But Moore, once a perennial candidate for the Tarrant County District Attorney’s job, is out effective July 1. So too is Mike Ware, head of the…

Back in October, Sam wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a lengthy piece about Dallas County’s relatively new veterans court, which gives second chances to soldiers who come home from war — some damaged in some way, many broke, most alone — and turn to drugs or lives…

The state Legislature addressed Texas’s baby-mama drama this session when, on May 12, Governor Rick Perry signed a bill that immediately relieves men determined not to be the biological father of a child from being required to pay child support. The bill passed unanimously through both the House and Senate.Previously,…

This week’s cover story in the Paper Version of Unfair Park covers complaints from a series of investors around the world who say they placed millions of dollars with a group of Dallas men, expected huge, nearly instant returns, and never saw their money again. The series of investments detailed…

Out of the blue today I got a call from somebody at the Liberty Institute, who said she was returning my message. “I guess you’re calling about ‘The Candy Cane Case,'” she said. Um … no? I think it was about this, actually, but that was a couple of weeks…

Pamela Weatherby, a 45-year-old Big Spring woman — and, according to a federal suit filed Monday in Dallas, an “unstable insulin dependent diabetic” — was serving a one-year sentence for drug possession at Dawson State Jail when she died last July. Now her parents and two sons say Weatherby would…

From the looks of the video on the other side, I’m surprised the whole audience at Trees didn’t sue following Andy Dick’s “performance” on December 19. But, no, it’s just the one guy: Robert Tucker, who says he didn’t much appreciate it when the former star of NewsRadio “forced his…

A Friend of Unfair Park asks if there’s any news about those federal lawsuits filed following those copious Super Bowl ticket snafus. As a matter of fact, at this very moment, U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Lynn is considering two things — whether to consolidate the two cases, and who’ll…

Susan Diamond’s life was turned inside out in 1999 when her husband abruptly announced he wanted a divorce. It’s only gotten worse from there.