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What do you do when you're branded?
9/4/2010 6:14 PM

What do Rick Perry and Chuck Connors have in common?

A girl named Sue who sues and sues and sues
8/28/2010 7:15 PM
It may be true that everyone deserves their day in court, but that sound legal maxim assumes that "everyone" has a plausible cause of action and is not merely a malingerer or a malcontent, a publicity hound or a paranoiac.
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Seeking Cash Splash from Spilled Soda
8/21/2010 1:56 PM
If you want to file a slip-and-fall lawsuit, avoid stores and restaurants whose employees are observant, diligent, and energetic. They may spot a spill on the floor before you do and promptly remove a golden opportunity.
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Nothing offends like Texan success
8/14/2010 5:35 PM
Our 50 states are sovereign within their borders and free to offer citizens as much or as little government as desired.
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Bill seeks cash gusher from oil spill
8/7/2010 11:38 PM
What is it with acronyms? It seems like every other bill coming out of Washington these days has a title with the first letters of every word spelling out a message word.
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And then there were none
7/31/2010 12:56 PM
If any doubts remain about the success of medical malpractice reform in Texas, the recent denouement in a silicosis multi-district litigation court should put them to rest.
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The Specter of legal plunder
7/24/2010 10:37 AM
The aptly surnamed Arlen Specter is trying once again to bestow a generous tax break on the plaintiff's attorneys who comprise a significant portion of his and his fellow Democrats' contributor base. The efforts of the shifty U.S. senator from Pennsylvania are opposed, once again, by Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas' stalwart representative from San Antonio.
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If you're not paying attention, everything's a hazard
7/17/2010 1:47 PM
It used to be that a person who tripped and fell would look around anxiously to see if anyone had noticed, for looking foolish was likely to be the gravest consequence, and a temporary ego deflation, the only injury.
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Radnofsky's revival of the Big Tobacco Bonanza
7/3/2010 9:43 AM
Barbara Ann Radnofsky would like to reprise the Great Texas Tobacco Settlement of 1998, which garnered $3.3 billion in attorneys fees for Beaumont's Walter Umphrey and Wayne Reaud, Houston's John O'Quinn and John Eddie Williams Jr., and Dangerfield's Harold Nix.
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Beaumont's free publicity costs too much
6/26/2010 1:20 PM
"I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right."
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Beaumont blogger discovers what goes around comes around
6/12/2010 11:11 PM
Here's a quick quiz: Who is the most frequently quoted person of all time? Is it William Shakespeare? Nope. Not even close.
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