News > Appeals Court

Attorney rightfully accepted $1M settlement for client, appeals court rules
11/16/2009 2:18 PM By David Yates

Morgan

Appellate justices recently found no fault in local attorney John Morgan's decision to settle his client's lawsuit for nearly $1 million.

Appeals court to hear arguments on conveyor belt case
11/10/2009 7:10 PM By David Yates
A local plant worker injured by a conveyor belt is asking an appeals court to keep the Goodyear Co. trapped in his suit, even though Goodyear sold the conveyor 13 months prior to his injury.

Read more
Justice Steve McKeithen

Appellate justices snatch jury verdict, leave former constable empty handed
11/2/2009 1:00 PM By David Yates
Despite winning his case a year ago, a former Jefferson County constable had his $126,500 jury award stripped by the Ninth Court of Appeals last Thursday.

Read more
Appeals court upholds incarceration of Port Arthur gang member
10/7/2009 8:33 PM By Steve Korris
Gang members can serve time for deadly threats even if it is other members of the gang that pose the threats, Ninth District appeals judges ruled on Oct. 1.

Read more
Newton

Appeals court approves Newton as arbitrator in Coon and Umphrey fee dispute
9/29/2009 11:00 AM By David Yates
A Texas appeals court shot down attorney Brent Coon recently, ruling the Provost Umphrey law firm will get to keep its selected arbitrator in a dispute over attorney's fees.

Read more
Split appeals opinion bestows pipeline project with eminent domain power and common carrier status
9/24/2009 2:25 PM By David Yates
Local rice farmers and land owners cringed Thursday, Sept. 24, after an appellate court affirmed a lower court's ruling granting a pipeline company common carrier status.

Read more
After series of mistakes, woman's suit ended by appeals court
9/24/2009 1:17 AM By Steve Korris
In a double dose of bad luck, Patricia Jones hired a surveyor who measured the wrong lot and a lawyer who didn't file papers in time to preserve a suit she filed over the faulty survey.

Read more
Abbott (R)

Fifth Circuit dismisses constitutionality case against state of Texas
9/14/2009 11:52 AM By Ashley Stinnett
AUSTIN(Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit aimed at challenging the constitutionality of the Texas Open Meetings Act.

Read more
Date set for appeals court hearing with BISD over South Park demolition
9/2/2009 2:17 PM By David Yates
In two weeks, the Beaumont Independent School District will have an opportunity to convince appellate justices that a lower court erred in enjoining the district from razing South Park Middle School.

Read more
Appeals court rules ship laborer not seaman under Jones Act
8/31/2009 3:44 PM By David Yates
A maintenance laborer who occasionally works on a boat is technically not a seaman and unable to sue under the Jones Act, the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled on Monday, Aug. 31.

Read more
Deputy will get full compensation for injury time off, appeals court says
8/31/2009 3:00 PM By David Yates
After years of litigation, a new trial and several trips to an appeals court, a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy will recover the full pay he claims he is owed for time lost after a work-related injury.
Read more