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…
At this late date you should have a pretty good idea in which city council district you’ll be in, should the map going to council next month wind up as the one officially adopted. And when it comes to redistricting, well, it’s left the Dallas Independent School District one trustee…
In an email headlined “A sad day for all Texans,” a law-practicing Friend of Unfair Park forwards along a just-posted opinion from the state Supremes, who have decided that the state Legislature’s so-called “pole tax,” which collects $5 from each admission paid to a topless joint and directs those dollars…
I guess it’s just plain dumb luck that I happened to be drifting through tiny Dublin (population 4,000) on the one day a month delicious Dublin Dr Pepper is bottled. Now, for the uninitiated, Dublin Dr Pepper distinguishes itself from its Plano-based brethren in one key respect: It’s made with…
Since last we mentioned those country club suits filed against the Dallas Central Appraisal District over their respective valuations, dozens more have popped up, including complaints filed in recent days by the owners of the Ritz-Carlton on McKinney, Schepps Dairy and myriad other strip centers and big boxes. But this…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price did not attend yesterday’s rally on his behalf at the Pan-African Connection Bookstore across the street from Fair Park. And those who’d packed the pews at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church one month ago did not fill the parking lot, or the…
The following is an excerpt from the Beat poetry of Michael Woolman of Lincoln, Nebraska, available in a complaint filed in Dallas federal court yesterday. He claims he checked in to Baylor for tonsil and sinus surgery, and left with an unexpected gift. Punctuation and spelling remain unchanged.I was in…
When first we noted in March that Wendy Russell Reves’s only child, Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., was suing the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT Southwestern president Kern Wildenthal, it was, for a moment, Big News — big enough, even, for The New York Times. Schroeder, of course, is…
No doubt you heard the radio spots in which they promised to “settle your credit card debt for pennies on the dollar without filing for bankruptcy”; no doubt you saw the TV ads in which they claimed you would “truly be debt free in less than 36 months.” From 2005…
You may remember Bonnie Bradshaw, the woman who freed a raccoon she believed was overheated and dying in a live trap at a Richardson apartment complex. On that sweltering June afternoon, she thought she was doing the work of a Good Samaritan when she took the animal home, nursed it…
