NEW ORLEANS – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s decision prohibiting attorneys from demanding “quick” access to criminal citations.
It’s been said that all candidates running for office go to bed worried and wake up worried. Milton “Mickey” Shuffield said that was true as he campaigned to retain his seat on the Jefferson County 136thDistrict Court.
Engle Beaumont attorney Glen Engle made a last minute guilty plea for tampering with court records and was sentenced to six months in the Jefferson County Jail. Engle also pleaded guilty to impersonating a public servant and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Last August, a Jefferson County jury found benefits paid by the city of Port Arthur to one of its employees were not for injuries suffered in an automobile collision as the employee claimed.
Brown Shortly after her husband died from cancer, an Orange County woman has filed a lawsuit against his former employer claiming the company knew for decades that their products contained toxic chemicals that could cause their employees to develop a deadly cancer.
Holiday Inn-Park Central A sister and brother have filed a lawsuit against a Port Arthur hotel claiming they lost their jobs for complaining about sexual harassment.
Orange residents Ira and Willie Mae Brown sought and received a restraining order against the city of Orange on Monday, temporarily stopping the city from demolishing their property.
While one of his fellow officers stands trial in a San Antonio criminal court for the alleged beating of Derrick Newman, Beaumont Police Officer Charles Duchamp is asking a local judge to dismiss him from Newman's civil suit.
A Jefferson County jury recently found that the worker's compensation benefits the city of Port Arthur paid to one of its employees was not for injuries in an automobile collision.
Jefferson County jurors didn't believe that Darrius Spearman killed Marcus Allen in self defense at a Port Arthur night club, and Ninth District appeals judges don't believe it either.
The parade of bizarre comings and goings in the legal system never seems to end, from strange claims and lawsuits to outcomes one would never have predicted.
