Subject: Trials

• Justice on the Block

  Is the D.A.'s office for sale to the highest bidder?

  March 9, 2000

• "Disgruntled" BP Workers Sue

  July 17, 2008

• The Sharks Come Out For Sunmart

  August 1, 2008

• Vet Says He Was Beaten Up At The VA Hospital

  August 8, 2008

• Alleged KBR Rape Victim Sues the U.S.

  August 12, 2008

• Law and Disorder

  In Janice Law's quests for a judgeship, the fourth time was a charm -- and now an alarm for the rest of the courthouse

  September 2, 1999

• Insider

  Justice Free-for-all

  September 30, 1999

• Strong Convictions

  Hard-line leaders such as loopy Stephen Mansfield have taken their agenda to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where legal precedents--not prosecutions--get overturned

  November 18, 1999

• Let's Make A Deal

  Convicted felons Mike and Pat Graham are at it again, trading allegations for favors

  June 1, 2000

• Bar Card

  The antics of an ex-con raise questions about his paralegal role

  June 26, 2003

• Fen-Phen Side Effects: Irritable Lawyers

  November 7, 2008

• KBR Sued Again, Featuring Dogs Running Around With Human Arms In Their Mouths

  If it's not one thing (such as accusations of sexual harassment) with those crazy cats at Kellogg, Brown & Root, it's another.A lawsuit against the company recently filed in Houston federal court accuses its workers of exposing military and non-military personnel in Iraq to contaminated food, contaminated water, and improperly incinerated human remains. Yeah, that's right. Human remains. Joshua Eller, the principal plaintiff, says he witnessed a wild dog running around base one day carrying

  December 3, 2008

• Another Sex-Abuse Lawsuit Filed Against Episcopal Diocese Of Texas

  A fourth man has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and St. Stephen's Episcopal School for allegedly covering up his sexual abuse at the hands of the school's chaplain.Filed Thursday in a Corpus Christi federal court, the suit is the third to accuse then-headmaster Allen Becker and other diocese authorities of covering up Jim Tucker's molestation of male students in the Austin boarding school in the 1960s. (After the publication of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Pre

  June 5, 2009

• Houston Lawsuit Calls Foul On Those "Low-Tar" Cigarettes

  Vincent Salazar, a Houston man, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Philip Morris and its parent company, Altria Group, in Texas, making the state one of four where similar lawsuits were filed in the last two days. The suits are seeking damages allegedly caused by years of advertising with words like low-tar, light, mild and ultra-light, which, it's claimed in the suit, "create the false impression that such cigarettes are less harmful to smokers than full-flavored, conventional cig

  February 6, 2009

• Dissecting Dr. Carter

  March 5, 1998

• Take the Cash and Talk That Trash

  March 19, 1998

• Judicial Arts Endowment

  October 22, 1998

• Another Slap On The Wrist For The Child-Fondling Doctor

  Photo courtesy Jefferson County Sheriff's OfficeHere's today's criminal justice system tip: If you're going to plead guilty in Harris County to repeatedly fondling young girls -- some of whom you're related to -- make sure you're a doctor. And we're not talking podiatrist, here.Hair Balls suggest you be a cardiologist, like Jeffrey Klem, who pleaded guilty March 9 to two counts of "injury to a child."  He received five years' deferred adjudication on both counts and was spared having to reg

  March 11, 2009

• Slipping Under the Bar Radar

  December 31, 1998

• A Civil Action

  August 12, 1999

• Best Administrative Judge

  September 21, 2000

• Files Not Found

  Thousands of missing FBI documents in the Timothy McVeigh case? It comes as no surprise to the survivors of Operation Lightning Strike.

  July 19, 2001

• Big Boobs Revisited

  Former ambassador Arthur Schechter prevails in his court case, wins more than $3.5 million

  May 15, 2008

• Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

  January 3, 2008

• Toxic Runoff : Somerville Mayor Tommy Thompson Discusses the Public Health Situation

  December 27, 2007

• Very Appealing

  Nichols's Houston attorney turns upbeat about the FBI's newest foibles

  May 17, 2001

• UH student investigates ORIX

  Goes after loan servicer

  March 29, 2007

• Lost in Translation

  Would-be Hispanic homeowners find out they don't own as much as they thought they did

  September 7, 2006

• Padding the School Policies?

  A lawsuit accuses HISD insurance consultants of conning the district

  March 3, 2005

• Judging Andrea

  A justice surprises critics by reversing the Yates verdict

  January 20, 2005

• Insanely Guilty

  A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.

  January 20, 2005

• Cleared Again

  A complaint against a paralegal gets dismissed

  July 10, 2003

• Penned In

  Almost nobody -- not even the trial judge or the victim -- thinks John Michael Harvey molested a child. So why's he still serving 40 years in prison?

  June 12, 2003

• The Bradford Game

  A mid-trial meltdown scorches the district attorney

  January 30, 2003

• Tough Sailing

  Unread evidence and claims of shredding send a cruise suit into the shoals

  May 9, 2002

• Child Support

  The same extreme measures that saved Sidney Miller at birth also severely disabled her 11 years ago. Texas courts are still trying to determine who should pay for it -- and could set a legal precedent in the process.

  May 2, 2002

• America's New War Against Enron

  Lawyers go gunning for corporate terrorists

  December 13, 2001

• Driving Miss D.A.-isy

  A ride-along girlfriend and erroneous testimony taint a DWI squad case

  October 4, 2001

• Waivering Rights

  Are prosecutors circumventing the new law designed to preserve DNA evidence?

  July 12, 2001

• Innocence Lost?

  Despite its increasing importance, DNA evidence routinely gets destroyed here

  November 30, 2000

• Pumped Dry

  Gas station dealers find big oil blocking the way in their struggles against extinction

  November 2, 2000

• God Only Knows

  Dismembered bodies. Gold booty and an ex-con's grudge. A trial rips into the mysteries of the disappearance of atheist icon Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

  June 15, 2000

• Payback Time

  The latest victims of death merchant Davis will recoup their losses - when he's dead

  June 8, 2000

• Bad Dog

  A slip-and-fall case bites James Coney Island in the butt

  April 13, 2000

• Coming to No Good End

  Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

  May 13, 1999

• Queen of the Good Ol' Boys

  The macho world of trial law is ruled by tough, hard-driving men -- and by Katherine Scardino, a tough, hard-driving woman

  March 25, 1999

• Going Through These Things Twice

  tuck inside of Hotel Six with the Houston blues again

  June 4, 1998

• Important "Toxic Town" Trial Starts Up Today

  Photo by Daniel KramerThe polluters who turned Somerville into the Toxic Town described in an award-winning Houston Press story may have had a good result in the first lawsuit they faced, but a second one -- beginning a week from today in the town of Caldwell in Burleson County -- may be different. Somerville residents have sued the BNSF Railway, which ran a tie-producing plant in town. Cancer rates were far higher there, and BNSF failed to install standard pollution controls.In January 2008, th

  April 20, 2009

• Farewell to a Killer

  A dogged detective and a Houston judge take parting shots at an old nemesis

  May 4, 2000

• Getting Schooled

  July 2, 2009