The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A Texas judge has issued an injunction against an anti-abortion group, Texas Right to Life, blocking it from trying to enforce the new six-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood in Texas, reports CNN. Planned Parenthood’s case against Texas Right to Life is set to go to trial in April 2022.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tennessee’s Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Wednesday that the state is suing retail pharmacy giant Walgreens, accusing the chain of contributing to the state’s opioid crisis by failing to maintain effective controls against the abuse of opioids. There were 595 overdose deaths involving prescription opioids in 2o2o.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2021

The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced Friday in a press release that it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will reincorporate in Texas. ” It mentions that the move to Texas will enable the nonprofit to start down a new path with more sustained growth and continued success. New York Rep.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 25, 2021

The lawsuit claims that the legislative text of Senate Bill 8 intrudes on attorney-client privilege.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the technology industry and blocked a controversial Texas law that bars large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the viewpoints they express. When Texas Gov. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fired back, arguing that H.B.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2021

In addition, SB8 would saddle violators of the law with their opponents’ attorneys fees. The result would be crushing legal expenses and duplicative lawsuits that would in effect end abortion access in Texas. More than 370 Texas lawyers, former judges, legal professors and local officials signed an open letter opposing it.

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LegalReader

MAY 18, 2022

When interviewing potential attorneys for personal injury lawsuits, you must have a set of attributes in mind.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By failing to respond to a plea for them to intervene, the justices allowed a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions to go into effect early Wednesday morning. The Texas legislature passed the law as part of an effort to undercut the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Roe v. The law at the center of the Texas case, known as S.B.

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Patently O

JANUARY 24, 2022

For those unfamiliar with how cases are assigned in district courts, let’s use the Western District of Texas as an example. The Western District of Texas is a vast district, stretching more than 600 miles across from El Paso (on the western limits of the state) to Waco (which is much nearer to Louisiana than New Mexico).

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Patently O

MARCH 7, 2022

Texas attorney Lee Ann Hughes purchased Performance Probiotics, LLC from the company founder Pearcy. At the time of the purchase, Hughes was Pearcy’s attorney – a red flag. Attorney fees of $400k. Hughes , 20-50671, 2022 WL 620238, at *1 (5th Cir. 3, 2022) [ Opinion ]. unauthorized use of the trade secret.

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LegalReader

JUNE 16, 2022

Failure to warn: Lack of transparency regarding side effects that manufacture was or should have been aware of.

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Law 360

JULY 28, 2022

District Judge Alan Albright threw open the doors of his Waco, Texas, courtroom to patent litigators, a new court policy to randomly assign patent cases across the Western District of Texas shut them, flummoxing attorneys and leaving some firms with new Waco offices rethinking their investments. Even faster than U.S.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 26, 2019

Set against the eclectic backdrop of Austin at the JW Marriott on 2nd Street, this year’s State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting offered a lot to attendees. The State Bar of Texas roped in some heavy hitters to share their knowledge and experience. So much fun covering the 2019 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting.

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Paralegal.edu

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Just over 6 months ago graduation was held in person at South Texas College of Law and 105 paralegal credentials were conferred. In over 40 years as an attorney, his practice areas included civil litigation, employment, insurance defense, contracts, and business law. The commencement address will be presented by Larry D.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

While Judge Albright and the Western District of Texas continued to hold onto their leads with the highest numbers of filed patent cases, the data revealed distinct drops in their cases in 2022.

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Law 360

MAY 17, 2021

A Texas federal jury’s recent $2.18 billion patent infringement verdict against Intel serves as a stark reminder that parties should promptly focus on damages to reveal a case's worth, identify early settlement opportunities, and conform litigation strategy to the law, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 15, 2022

The State Bar of Texas 2022 Annual Meeting was truly one for the books. State Bar of Texas Podcast – Featured Episodes: The Legal Talk Network was proud to be a part of this event, and had the opportunity to chat with some of this year’s amazing keynote speakers and guests. Jury Decision – Making and the Gen Z Juror.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In Texas, filing the petition is followed by a mandatory 60-day waiting period before spouses can be officially divorced.

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Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Texas-led coalition of attorneys general accusing Google of monopolizing the display advertising market moved Wednesday to drop the only antitrust damages claims that the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation could use to combine the enforcer case with private proposed class actions for trial.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is facing a potentially massive class action after the state’s power grid failed in deadly cold conditions. ABC News reports that the lawsuit was filed by Morgan & Morgan, a Florida-based law firm with hundreds of attorneys nationwide.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2021

A judge for the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Tuesday, finding that the NRA did not file the petition in good faith.

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LawSites

MARCH 27, 2024

As it turns out, just a week before she filed her lawsuit, her former company had sued her in federal court in Texas, seeking a declaratory judgment that it had terminated her for cause, and that, as a result, her stock option was also terminated. Read the full text of the Texas complaint. “It is my understanding Ms.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

One example of such a case is the one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Teva. State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

Jessie is a board certified trial paralegal in Texas. She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. In this blog, I’m interviewing Jessie Foss. I used to work for a Pizza Inn.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The lawsuit also alleges that Travis Scott, Drake, Apple, and other defendants share liability for the crowd-crush disaster which left nearly a dozen people dead and hundreds injured.

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LegalReader

MAY 7, 2022

The non-profit State Bar Foundation alleges that Paxton misused his office to support lawsuits propagating election conspiracy theories.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch then filed a brief with the Supreme Court in July asking it to reconsider its precedential rulings in Roe v. The DOJ has been actively litigating to defend abortion access and is likely to continue to face legal battles over the matter. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

But in precisely that scenario, Amy Falcon , a litigation partner with Porter Hedges in Houston, says she was able to cut the cost of preparing the brief by 20%, and she attributes that savings entirely to the legal technology product, Clearbrief. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline.

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LegalReader

JULY 29, 2022

Texas is known as a “tort state.” This means that in order to receive a settlement, you must prove that someone else was to blame.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2021

Yahoo News ] * A Texas lawyer has been disbarred for allegedly taking his client's food stamps and purportedly faking the client's signature. Texas Lawyer ] * The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that required charities to disclose their largest donors. Hope he isn't a legal noob. Guardian ].

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Above The Law

MAY 7, 2021

Those attorneys must be fast typers. Courthouse News ] * Devin Nunes's attorney has been ordered to pay CNN $21,000 in legal fees for filing frivolous defamation litigation. [ Law and Crime ] * The Attorney General of Texas has unblocked critics on Twitter following a lawsuit. Those attorneys must be fast typers.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 8, 2022

Accident reports, witness testimony and medical reports are important documentation for a personal injury attorney to prove negligence after a car accident.

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LegalReader

MARCH 2, 2022

Texas has said that it will investigate the parents of transgender children receiving "gender-affirming treatment" for abuse.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis. Enhancing Litigation Documents. It scans for document type (e.g.

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LegalReader

APRIL 29, 2022

An attorney for several migrants said her clients were kept in custody after they posted bond--and even after prosecutors dropped charges against them.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Share On Tuesday the justices will hear oral argument in the case of Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed , who is seeking DNA testing for evidence that he believes will clear him. In 2009, the Supreme Court ruled in District Attorney’s Office v. Reed came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to review that ruling.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 18, 2023

Law360 ] * State judge blocks Texas law that barred Houston -- and only Houston -- from running its local elections after the city started electing Black women. [ Raising concerns about litigation from anti-affirmative action forces who are so sure that discrimination doesn't exist that they don't want anyone checking their work.

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