Museum Tower will be opening in January 2013, and it will be “iconic,” “world-class” and “environmentally responsible,” says the full-page ad we were just sent from Barbara Buzzell, who handles the building’s PR. Anyone who finds themselves worried about the tower’s ongoing dispute with its Arts District neighbors can probably…
If you’ve ever wondered who controls any given parking lot downtown, the answer is probably either Central Parking Corporation or Standard Parking Corporation. Central owns more than a dozen locations there, according to its website. Standard owns several more, though its website doesn’t say exactly how many. The same thing…
Joel Schulman is not on the North Texas Tollway Authority’s list of top toll scofflaws. In fact, he lives in Bossier City, Louisiana, three hours east of the nearest NTTA-controlled roadway. That hasn’t stopped the agency from sending notice after notice demanding payment for tolls racked up by a certain…
In 2008, Rebecca Williams sued DART. She worked in the agency’s human resources department at the time, and said that she had been ordered by her boss to hire only Hispanics, as she told WFAA at the time. She was subsequently fired in what she says was an act of…
A six-year court battle waged by the feds against an ExxonMobil policy mandating the retirement of all corporate pilots at the age of 60 was dealt its second defeat in a Dallas federal court. The challenge, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, characterized the policy as ageist and in…
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…
At 70, Elaine Tettemer Marshall seems a bit old to be the daughter-in-law of someone who would have turned 46 this year. That that someone happened to be Anna Nicole Smith, the gold-digging Playboy playmate who married 86-year-old J. Howard Marshall in 1994, a year before he died, explains a…
Back in June, we told you about Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton, a couple in Hardin whose rural farmhouse was raided after law enforcement got a hot tip from a psychic named “Angel” about a mass grave on the property. The mass grave didn’t exist, Angel quickly made herself scarce,…
In June, Bill and Barbara Harris opened Silver Spoon Bakery and Cafe in Southlake. “I’m 81 years old, my wife’s 78,” Harris said. “We’re not dead yet, and we’re just trying to stay active.” Silver Spoon is a lunch spot whose every detail, from the cutesy, pink-striped walls to the…
Lamar Advantage Outdoor Company and Ralston Outdoor Advertising each own a handful of billboards along I-35 between the Loop 12 split on the south and the intersection with LBJ on the north. Last year, the companies began to worry about the impact to their property of the LBJ Express Project,…
A Grapevine ad agency is accusing WFAA of throwing its weight around and scuttling a relationship with its biggest client. Ann Page-Cahill of AP Commnications filed suit against WFAA’s parent company, Belo Corp. and her former client, Baylor Health Care system in district court Tuesday, claiming Baylor cut her firm…
Neighborhood blogger and professional shit-disturber Avi Adelman is not happy with the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market being built at the former site of Whole Foods on Greenville Avenue, right across the street from his house. He was even less happy when the retailer put up ridiculously bright lights in its parking…
A case out of Marshall, reported today by Courthouse News, is truly the Bermuda Triangle for moral compasses. Janna Ardoin brought Chester, her Chinese Pug, into Patchwork Pet Resort and Veterinary Clinic with his eyeball dangling from its socket, attached by the merest of threads. She had three choices: Pay…
Robert Garmon and Rodney Spinato were the only black bartenders working for Wolfgang Puck Catering’s Dallas operation. They were, as they describe in a discrimination lawsuit filed today, “excellent, hard-working employees who were wrongfully terminated because of their race.” What led them to this conclusion was not the fact that…
Chesapeake Energy, the country’s second-largest producer of natural gas, has been hit with a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of violating royalty agreements with landowners in Tarrant and Johnson counties. As you may recall, an identical suit was brought in July by a family of Johnson County landowners who claim…
You may know Tom Corea from the twice-weekly, half-hour infomercials he ran on daytime TV called Ask a Lawyer with Tom Corea. Or you may know him as that attorney who sued KTVT and Channel 21 for $1.4 million over said show, claiming the stations didn’t forward calls to his…
David Womble, a Dallas County maintenance supervisor, leaves an impression on his employees. In June, three of them sued the county for discrimination after one, Dennis Jones, was fired for having previously disclosed felony convictions while his white colleagues were not. Womble, the suit claimed, created a hostile work environment,…
Strip clubs are the brave new frontier in employment lawsuits. Women who were for years treated as “independent contractors” are filing suit in droves against their current or former employers. All of them want basically the same thing: the minimum wage and overtime money they feel they should have gotten…
In June, as part of its ongoing effort to further endear itself to the driving public, the North Texas Tollway Authority announced it would post the names of its top toll violators for all to see. Done. The agency simultaneously announced it would be filing civil lawsuits against some of…
On June 29, if you’ll recall, a DART paratransit van inexplicably plowed into a line of stopped cars on the Tollway. The first question upon seeing the crash was, naturally, What the hell is that driver on? Drugs or a cell phone?. The inside-the-bus video, which showed the driver’s placid…
ATI Career Training Center is the type of school you see advertised on daytime TV. It prepares its graduates for “rewarding careers” in “fields such as health care, personal fitness and wellness, business technology, information technology, automotive repair, air conditioning and refrigeration repair, and welding,” per its website. Three years…
It was a question the legal system had never faced before: If the state pays a man millions of dollars for locking him up for a crime he didn’t commit, does the wife he left behind get a piece of that? There was no need for an answer before the…
