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Lowery appointed U.S. Attorney.
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AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the way in the antitrust investigation of Big Tech, including the “Jedi Blue” online advertising agreement between Google and Facebook (a/k/a Meta), a press release states.
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The concept of a public nuisance goes back to old English criminal laws making it, for example, a crime to obstruct the king’s highway.
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Texas’ road from Spindletop to Tesla seems unlikely, but in reality, it was inevitable.
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The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
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DALLAS - The American Tort Reform Association released its annual Judicial Hellholes report today, placing the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas on its watch list.
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Paxton Joins Multistate Coalition to Stop Corporations from Forum Shopping.
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Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.
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The Clark Hill-ABA Connection: Deep Roots & A New Leadership Role.
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Jeff Wurzburg, a well-known and respected health care lawyer previously with the HHS Office of the General Counsel, has joined Locke Lord in the Austin and Washington, D.C., offices.
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AUSTIN – Gov. Abbott today signed Senate Bill 6, the Damon Allen Act, into law at the Texas Pastor Council's Safer Houston Summit.
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As someone who lived in California and Texas for nearly my entire adult life, I read Kenneth P. Miller’s new book, Texas vs. California (2020), with considerable anticipation.
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AUSTIN—Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC today endorsed John Lujan for election in House District 118, which covers part of Bexar County.
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The Changing Landscape of Tax Reform: Strategic Implications for M&A on July 29, 2021.
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AUSTIN—Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC (TLRPAC) today endorsed Dr. Dawn Buckingham in her campaign for Texas Land Commissioner.
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AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier, who stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google, has donated $25,000 to Attorney General Ken Paxton, campaign finance records show.
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AUSTIN — Today, Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorsed Eva Guzman, who resigned from the Texas Supreme Court earlier this month, in her campaign for Texas Attorney General.
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NEW BRAUNFELS - A Comal County judge approved a request to fund prepaid funeral benefits for a New Braunfels woman under court-appointed guardianship who is still alive.
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AUSTIN – The Pandemic Liability Protection Act has passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature by supermajorities.
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AUSTIN – Attorney Mark Lanier stands to make millions of dollars for his work on Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Google – billable time that Attorney General Ken Paxton apparently doesn’t think is any of the public’s business.
