Personal Injury Law

Texas A&M administrators not immune from bonfire suits
Sovereign immunity does not bar suits against Texas A&M University administrators over the 1999 bonfire collapse that killed 12 people and injured 27, according to a 10th Court of Appeals decision May 28...

Activision Settles Guitar Hero Suit
Hard to find time to blog, what with the steady torrent of press releases and marketing hype on this GTA IV-eve. Apparently, an ever-growing list of concerned citizens would like to remind you that, unlike Trix, GTA IV is definitely not for kids...

"To Catch a Predator" suit settles
A civil case involving circumstances that made plenty of Texas prosecutors squeamish has settled. It's the $105 million suit filed in a U.S. District Court in New York by the survivors of Louis W...

Texas hospital settles healthcare FCA suit
Harris Methodist HEB Hospital (HEB) of Bedford, Texas, has agreed to pay the state of Texas and the federal goverment $1.9 million in settlement of a False Claims Act suit.HEB's corporate parent self-disclosed to the inspector general of the Dept...

Big civil-rights suit settles
In Texas -- where big business is king, unions are rare and employees are used to getting kicked in the pants -- it?s not often an employer-defendant folds up the tent on a federal civil-rights suit and signs off on...

Russian blogger gets suspended sentence for wishing police to be burned on bonfire
Not saying that I want cops burned on a bonfire, but any kind of criminal sentence -- even a suspended one -- seems unwarranted, especially when it's a generalized, over-the-top message from some moron who's obviously spouting off...

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Texas A&M University
Settles Bonfire Lawsuit for $2.1 Million

Texas Employment Law
alleged violations of Texas labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

BP
Settles More Claims From Texas Refinery Explosion

Texas' KB Home Hit with Price Fixing Class Action
Texas' KB Home Faces Price Fixing Class-Action

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.

BP to Pay $15M for Texas Refiney Violations of Clean Air Act
BP to Pay $15M for Texas Refiney Violations of Clean Air Act