It’s hollow succor, to be sure, but 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a judge made an improper ruling in the case that ended in outgoing Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins being charged with contempt of court. Watkins secured an indictment in 2011 that accused Al Hill III…
The Case: DeLeon vs. Perry features two sets of plaintiffs fighting for two distinct rights. Cleopatra DeLeon and Nicole Dimetman are already married. The couple seeks to force the state of Texas to recognize their Massachusetts union and grant them the rights afforded to opposite-sex married couples from other states…
The new year will ring in with two major skirmishes in the nation’s culture wars, as the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in one case challenging Texas’ restrictive new abortion law and another seeking to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The…
Are strippers employees, or just independent contractors working for tips? A lawsuit filed against Dallas’ all-nude Jaguars settled on Wednesday, leaving us no answer, at least in this case. The plaintiffs in the suit, 182 women who worked for the club’s outlets in Texas and Arizona, will divvy up $1.54…
Shane Garner’s alleged scam was simple: Set up a reputable-sounding company, i.e. the Credit Alliance Group. Flood the Internet with promises that he can help hard-working Americans escape from crushing debt. Convince the people who respond that they need to pay the company up front so it can negotiate down…
It was a valiant effort. Earlier this year the Texas Package Stores Association, in an attempt to shield the thousand or so liquor stores it represents from meaningful competition, sought to resuscitate an obscure and transparently stupid provision of Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code barring non-Texans from holding Texas liquor licenses…
Until 2010, Sergeant Delbert Johnson had a great career at the Fort Worth Police Department. He joined the force in 1990 and had worked his way up to sergeant by 2000. In 2005 he was transferred to the department’s day shift traffic division, giving a regular schedule that allowed him…
Two statements that are axiomatic are 1. Anyone representing themselves in court has a fool for a client, and 2. No good ever comes out of the O’Reilly Factor. For evidence, we offer you Deion Sanders’ ex-wife Pilar, who was hauled into a Collin County Court by the former Cowboys…
The Boy Scouts of America has been found negligent in the case of Siegfried Hepp, a Connecticut troop leader accused of sexually assaulting multiple Scouts. Hepp was convicted of unlawful sexual touching of a minor in 1999. Witnesses at the trial, held in Waterbury, Connecticut, said that the Irving-based organization…
Josh Brent may have done his time for the December 2012 drunk driving wreck that killed his passenger, former University of Illinois teammate and best friend Jerry Brown Jr., but the legal battle surrounding the case isn’t over. Brent’s been sued by Beamers Private Club as it attempts to insulate…
Back in April, the carefully airbrushed Yelp reputation of Irving attorney Sherin Thawer took a major hit when user Kayur P. left a bruising, one-star appraisal of her legal talents. The content of the review has since been removed from the site for unspecified violations of Yelp’s terms of service,…
Tuesday morning, a lawsuit was filed in federal court by an anonymous plaintiff asserting that her daughter, who has Down syndrome, was raped twice by a DART paratransit driver in September 2013. According to the plaintiff, driver Cedrick Agentdropped off his other passengers on the bus before pulling over and…
Last week, Denton became the first city in the state to pass a citywide ban on fracking. Voters approved the ban in a landslide, with 59 percent in favor of the ban and 41 percent against, after more than five years of struggle between anti-fracking activists and the energy industry…
You want to live in Frisco’s Plantation Resort 2 neighborhood, you better keep your property looking good and fancy. Because Plantation Resort 2 isn’t going to put up with your shit. Here are Plantation Resort 2’s hardcore summer lawn-watering instructions: Although we are currently under water restrictions we cannot allow…
Five years ago this month, a Dallas County justice of the peace signed an order evicting Clifford Holland from the $1.2 million home he was renting on Caruth Boulevard, a block outside of University Park. Aside from the eye-popping $6,000-per-month rent, the case was a routine tenant-landlord dispute: Landlord claims…
On Saturday, the Supreme Court decided to let Texas enforce its strict two-year-old voter ID law, which a district court judge struck down as grossly discriminatory this month, but that ruling was temporarily put on hold by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Got that? No? Then let us…
The rhetoric from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses in the last several days has been vehement. Nurses are anonymously alleging that the hospital did not take proper steps to prevent contamination and infection, which ultimately led to nurses Amber Vinson and Nina Pham contracting Ebola from patient Thomas Eric Duncan…
The statement lawyer Thomas Bowers issued Thursday morning after the dismissal of his client Jana Weckerly’s sexual assault lawsuit against Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was precise: “Neither Jerry Jones nor the Cowboys organization has paid us any money.” If you’re the suspicious sort, you might be wondering if that means…
Jerry Jones is no longer headed to trial over accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2009. The case, brought by former stripper Jana Weckerly, also claimed that Jones and his longtime lawyer, Levi McCathern, conspired to pay her off until the statute of limitations expired. A hearing was…
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court cleared the way for reopening 13 abortion-providing health clinics that shuttered following an October 2 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed Texas to begin enforcing the most draconian portions of House Bill 2, the state’s 2013 anti-abortion measure. While…
Monday morning word came down from on high, or wherever it is the Supreme Court proclamations come from, that the court would not hear any of several same-sex marriage cases it could have this term. In turning down cases from the 4th, 7th and 10th federal circuit courts, the Supreme…
The lawyer for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones appeared in a Dallas courtroom Friday to argue that a lawsuit accusing Jones of sexual assault — and the Cowboys of conspiracy to cover it up — should be dismissed because of the statute of limitations. Attorney Gregory Shamoun also said the claims…
