Legal News Articles

High-profile attorneys in Houston, and throughout the State of Texas, routinely issue headline-grabbing press releases about their lawsuits. The scene is oft-repeated: the attorney, flanked by his clients, holds a press conference to discuss the allegations, which is followed soon thereafter by an official press release to the local media. Recently, the Texas Supreme Court…

On June 5, 2019, a Galveston County resident filed a complaint against Moody Gardens, Inc. (“Moody Gardens”) as a result of injuries she alleges she sustained on an ice slide while visiting Moody Gardens with her family. The lawsuit arises out of events taking place on January 6, 2019, when the woman visited Moody Gardens…

Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017 as a Category 4 Hurricane and caused widespread destruction throughout the greater Houston area and surrounding counties. Harvey’s extreme wind speeds reached 130 mph or higher, produced record setting numbers of tornados and inches of rain fall throughout the Houston area, and caused Texas homes…

Residents that live near the Addicks and Barker Reservoir are now coming to terms with the fact that in big enough rainstorms, their neighborhoods are actually designed to flood. And nobody told them about it. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the two reservoirs known as Addicks and Barker on what was then…

Texas’ 2011 voter identification law – which stipulates the types of photo identification election officials can and cannot accept at the polls – does not comply with the Voting Rights Act, a federal appeals court ruled. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed previous rulings that the voter ID law violated the federal law…

In an opinion handed down last Friday, the Texas Supreme Court held that, where an arbitration is governed by the Texas General Arbitration Act, or “TAA,” courts cannot vacate the arbitration award on the grounds that the arbitrator “manifestly disregarded the law.” Justice Debra Lerhmann, writing for a unanimous Court in Hoskins v. Hoskins, reasoned…

The Texas Supreme Court has approved new standards in regards to becoming board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Members of the Court, as well as the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and their Advisory Committee, worked with Exam Commissioners and the State Bar of Texas to update the…