This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a very confusing ruling in the case involving Dallas County’s voting machines — a case, you’ll recall, that stemmed from Linda Harper-Brown’s 19-vote victory over Democrat Bob Romano in 1998. Long story short: The Texas Democratic Party (represented in part by attorney…
On Monday we told you the story of Jason Clay Kennedy and the Brothers O’Brien, who, on February 5, disabled a Houston jewelry store’s alarm and video surveillance system and sawed through six inches of steel and concrete and made off with $6 million in 22-carat gold, Rolex watches and…
Friends of Unfair Park who followed the federal City Hall corruption trial in 2009 may recall the name Sarah Saldaña; she was among the more prominent prosecutors on that team. But till I glanced at her U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary questionnaire, I had no idea, for instance, that…
Today’s The Big Day (well, all right, a big day) for Dallas County Constables Ben Adamcik, Beth Villareal and Roy Williams and many of the deputy constables who say Dallas County is eliminating their jobs because some of them blew the whistle on Dallas County Precinct 1 Constable Derick Evans…
This afternoon at the Frank Crowley courts building, Anthony Robinson, a chief investigator at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, announced that 17 people have been indicted for allegedly taking part in a retail theft ring that stole an estimated $400,000 in goods. Police have arrested 14 people and expect…
When last we checked in on the nearly 8-year-old (!) case involving those Plano ISD students (and their parents, more to the point) suing the district over those “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” pencils and candy canes they weren’t allowed to distribute during winter-break parties, one of the…
You knew this was coming; you were warned.While searching the Dallas County Civil District Court’s website for something unrelated, I took a look at the virtual case jacket concerning the lawsuit over the citywide sale of beer and wine — a suit brought by attorneys Andy Siegel and Leland de…
On June 30, as I’m almost positive you’ll recall, FBI agents raided the offices of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price; his executive assistant, Dapheny Fain; and Kathy Nealy, the well-connected political consultant. What you may have missed: Nineteen days before the raid, Center Operating Company, which owns and operates…
Back in August, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said he was taking a long, hard look at Mortgage Electronic Registration System, which, as we noted at the time, was created in 1995 by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other financial institutions to speed up the recording and transfer of…
The First Unitarian Church of Dallas hosted a special guest last week: Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The CRR, if you recall, is the New York-based organization that recently won a preliminary injunction against Texas’s proposed sonogram law. In the church’s main sanctuary, Northup spoke to…
A curious tale involving Highland Park Middle School, two UT Southwestern docs, a 362-page novel and a whole bunch of underage kids allegedly depicted as doing things they shouldn’t oughta just hit Courthouse News. Read it for yourself. Long story short: The mother of an unnamed HPMS student (identified only…
Perhaps you recall: On the night of December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331 crash-landed in Kingston, Jamaica. The Boeing 737-800, inbound from Miami during a storm, overshot the runaway and came within feet of sinking in the Caribbean. The feds told Channel 8 that “the plane may have been…
Brantley espied that giant check you see at right during his tour of the Dublin Dr Pepper bottling plant a few weeks ago; turns out, it was just seed money. We just received word that in order to keep pace with Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is suing the…
During his storied tenure here, Patrick Michels took a deep interest in the legal doings of Denton attorney Evan Stone, who’s filed dozens of cases in Dallas federal court involving thousands of John Does who Stone says are illegally downloading movies, most of ’em pornos. As Patrick wrote in his…
Marine Staff Sergeant Thinh Tran is unavailable to speak at the moment; he’s training in the California desert in advance of a deployment to Afghanistan. He is, by all accounts, out of the country often: In October 2009, for instance, he received orders he was to ship out for a…
Perhaps you recall: During the NBA playoffs, some locals launched the site DirkSwish.com, where they sold the T-shirt you see at right — a rather popular tee, matter of fact, which sold for $19.99. Got some nice national pub, and the attention on The Ticket didn’t hurt either. Turns out,…
Remember, way back in January, when then-Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport were in a huff — a downright tizzy! — over Rick’s Cabaret’s plans to take off its top but a hop, skip and lap dance away from American Airlines’ HQ on the south…
At the end of last week, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. filed its response to Dublin Dr Pepper’s response to corporate’s lawsuit filed in June, in which the mothership insists Dublin’s violating a licensing agreement by selling The Imperial Pure Cane Sugar-y Good Stuff outside of a six-county area. The…
You want the good news or the bad news? Oh, hell, let me just give you the good stuff first: The enforcement of proposed legislation that would have required Texas women to look at a sonogram, have it described to them “in detail” by their doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat…
This just in from the Department of Justice: No way, no how does it want downtown-based AT&T from getting its hands on T-Mobile. So much so it’s just filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in D.C. federal court to block the sale, insisting that …… the proposed $39 billion transaction would…
Courthouse News brings word this morning of a suit involving Unfair Park’s ‘cross-the-freeway neighbor, the Hilton Anatole — specifically, its V Spa, which bills itself as “a sublime setting, a true spa experience, a multitude of treatments ready to revitalize and pamper, heal and refresh.” The suit, filed Friday in…
Earlier this month we outlined Lewisville-based Delcom Group’s $40-million breach of contract claim against the Dallas Independent School District, which was filed after the district suddenly and surreptitiously yanked its board-approved contract to give classrooms a high-tech makeover and went with second-place finisher Prime Systems out of Houston. Delcom alleges…
