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…
In some cases the fees became so burdensome that some of the plaintiffs were forced to walk away from their property
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…
If a man spends 26 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, you can bet he’s going to want every cent he can get through the state’s statutory compensation plan for the wrongfully imprisoned. We spoke with Johnnie Lindsey for this week’s cover story about the ongoing legal…
Back to the Dr Pepper-on-Dr Pepper lawsuit …Early this morning we posted Dublin Dr Pepper’s response to the lawsuit filed in June by Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is trying to limit Dublin’s real-deal Imperial Sugar-spiked soda pop to a six-county area and alleges the oldest Dr Pepper bottler…
On Friday we brought you the news that the Dallas Independent School District has been hit with a $40-million breach of contract suit filed by Delcom Group. Long story short: The Lewisville-based tech company was initially awarded a mammoth deal to convert schoolrooms into digital classrooms. But the district tossed…
Back in June, you no doubt recall, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. decided, for whatever reason, to sue Dublin Dr Pepper, which makes the only soda worth drinking — original-formula Imperial Pure Cane Sugar Dr Pepper. Corporate HQ claims in court docs that Dublin Dr Pepper, which ships all over…
Bank of America’s got plenty to worry about right now, between tumbling share prices, threats of a $10-billion A.I.G. suit and renewed concerns over its long-term viability. So a lawsuit filed late last week in Dallas County District Court by Robert Long may not top the pops ’round Charlotte, North…
Call him Steven Phillips, collector of broken men. After all, he should know a thing or two about breaking. The man spent a quarter century in prison for a string of rapes in the early ’80s. In 2007, he was released on mandatory parole to ease overcrowding in Texas prisons…
And speaking of the Dallas Independent School District …It’s just been sued over a $40-million technology contract that the district awarded to Lewisville-based Delcom Group in May and yanked in June, when the board gave the contract to one of the company’s competitors. At stake: the district’s digital classroom initiative,…
For those who don’t recall, on February 23 Dallas Police officers were dispatched to the Hudspeth Avenue home of Dianne Irons after a call concerning some kind of a domestic dispute at the East Oak Cliff residence. Irons and her nephew, who’d once lived at the house, were arguing over…
Last week, our friends across the office at DC9 introduced us to a new way to creep on people in the Twitterverse: Undetweetable, an invention by professor Dr. Dean Terry and grad student Bradley Griffith, both of the Emerging Media + Communication program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Undetweetable…
After much talk about his civil liberties and all the spiritual good his clubs were offering young adults and couples, Wyakie Glenn Hudson, who operated DarkSide and The Playground, agreed to shut down both locations. His approach was significantly softened as he addressed reporters outside this morning’s hearing at the…
One week ago today we noted that the Dallas Country Club, which sits on 118 acres in the heart of Highland Park, is suing the Dallas Central Appraisal District over its valuation — a whole $15 million. Today we brings news of yet another country club taking on DCAD: Lakewood’s…
