Trials

More Than 500 Indians Abused by Human Trafficking, Lawyer Says

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina not only almost destroyed New Orleans and wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast. The hurricane may also have opened the door for human trafficking for one company, according to lawsuits filed in Texas and Mississippi on Tuesday. The swathe of destruction Hurricane Katrina cut ... More >>

Houston Press Staff Writer Named a Co-Defendant in Swamplot vs. Mark Thuesen Suit

Craig Malisow of the Houston Press has been named a third-party defendant in a lawsuit that pits Swamplot against former homeowners' association president Mark Thuesen and vice versa. On August 27, 2012, Laurence Albert, a co-founder of the real estate blog Swamplot, filed a malicious prosecution l ... More >>

Father Ronald Bollich: Two More Men Accuse Beaumont Diocese of Negligence in Alleged Abuse

Two more men have joined a lawsuit accusing a deceased Beaumont priest of molestation. Identified as John Does, the two men join another anonymous plaintiff who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont and Bishop Curtis Guillory in April over abuse that allegedly occurred in 1976 and 1977. The ... More >>

Pradaxa Lawsuits Consolidated in Beautiful East St. Louis, Illinois

Families suing the maker of anti-clotting drug Pradaxa will have their cases consolidated in an East St. Louis, Illinois, court -- a decision the Texas-based law firm leading the suits is calling a coup. Pradaxa hit the U.S. market in 2010, hailed by manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim as a major le ... More >>

Texan Challenges Civil Forfeiture Law

Police can keep your cash, car and other property, regardless of whether you've been convicted of – let alone charged with – a crime.

Rate Your Risk, Maybe

Two Men Take Roak to Court, Each Claiming Assaults on Premises of Upper Kirby Lounge

Roak, the former Upper Kirby funeral home turned trendy, South Beach-esque oontz-oontz lounge, was taken to court twice last month. Alleged assaults on the premises figure in both cases. On May 23, attorney J. Michael Moore asked for and was granted a temporary restraining order and a temporary inj ... More >>

Beaumont Diocese Sued Over Priest Who Allegedly Abused Teen in 1976

A Dallas County man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, and Bishop Curtis Guillory, over sexual abuse the man allegedly suffered by a now-deceased priest in 1976-1977. Filed last week in Jefferson County District Court, the man -- identified as John Doe 104 -- claims that Father Ronald ... More >>

Junie Hoang: Actress' Suit Against IMDb For Revealing Her Age Allowed To Proceed

A federal judge has refused to toss out the suit filed by texas actress Junie Hoang, who anonymously sued Amazon for revealing her true age on its subsidiary movie-info website IMDb. Hoang, 41, a Texas A&M graduate who studied martial arts in Houston, sued the site for taking her age from informati ... More >>

Abraham Moses Fisch: Made A Million Convincing Defendants He Could Bribe Their Cases Away, Feds Say

He knows people​Houston criminal defense attorney Abraham Moses Fisch is facing a slew of federal charges this morning: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering and failure to file tax returns, They all stem from what the U.S. Attorney's Off ... More >>

Sex Cures Teen Crime

UT study touts teen relationships

Messy Lawsuit Features Rival Crime Scene Clean-Up Companies

A dirty job​Who knew the crime scene/trauma clean-up business was so, um, cut-throat? If the allegations in a local civil court case are to believed, only rival drug lords conduct their business more ruthlessly. According to plaintiffs John DiGulio and K.P. Management, two area men and their ... More >>

Family Sues to Get Attorney's Fees Back Because Their Lawyers Successfully Bribed the Judge

A friendly handshake​A Texas family that successfully settled a wrongful-death suit for big bucks is suing to get back $5.7 million in attorney's fees and expenses because the lawyers used part of that money to bribe the judge. Whatever it takes, right? Be happy with your winnings, right? App ... More >>

Lawsuit Filed Against Rodeo After Man Dies On Roller Coaster

Photo by Jeff BalkeThe Hi-Miler claimed a life at the rodeo.​The death of 46-year-old Brian Greenhouse, who plummeted from the Hi-Miler roller coaster on closing night of the rodeo last Sunday, is the centerpiece of a lawsuit filed late yesterday in Harris County court. The wrongful death laws ... More >>

More Priest-Abuse Suits, This Time With Chloroform

Man claims he was chloroformed and raped as an altar boy​The Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston is facing more allegations of abuse and fraud related to a Houston priest who died in 2000.In a lawsuit set to be filed today, Guadalupe Gonzales accuses the late Father Lawrence Peguer ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle and doesn't work.

Notsuoh Hit With Lawsuit For Bizarre 2009 Falling Man Incident

Photo courtesy notsuoh.comNot-sued-oh no longer​Last February Hair Balls reported on a bizarre pre-dawn incident at downtown nightclub/art space Notsuoh in which a highly intoxicated man allegedly fell out of one the upper floors of the building at 316 Main. That man, now identified as Nathan Fis ... More >>

On Hold

Found not guilty of the rape charges against him twice over, a former deputy constable still can't get his job back.

Drug Kingpin Juan Jose Quintero-Payan Extradited To Texas

Welcome to Texas, dude​The U.S. Attorney's offices of Houston and San Antonio have announced a major coup in the drug war: Mexican kingpin Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 68, has been successfully extradited from Mexico to Texas.Quintero-Payan, of Guadajara, had fought extradition for eight years, but h ... More >>

Some Judicial Action In Those Bad-Faith Worker's-Comp Insurance Cases

​In 2008 we wrote about the problems with Texas Mutual Insurance, a company accused of bad-faith dealings with people who had filed worker's comp claims through them.Two recent court actions have advanced things a bit, including what could be an important showdown at the Texas Supreme Court.The fi ... More >>

Corpus Christi Diocese Hit With Priest-Abuse Suit

Photo courtesy Diocese of Corpus ChristiBishop Carmody​A Corpus Christi man is suing the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi for sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of a priest who died in 2008.Identified only as "John Doe," the plaintiff says Thomas Meaney began abusing him in 1971, when ... More >>

Getting Schooled

A group of former condo owners say SMU defrauded them of their homes to make way for the new Bush library.

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 Al ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 yo ... More >>

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 w ... More >>

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, co ... More >>

Fen-Phen Side Effects: Irritable Lawyers

Alleged KBR Rape Victim Sues the U.S.

Vet Says He Was Beaten Up At The VA Hospital

The Sharks Come Out For Sunmart

"Disgruntled" BP Workers Sue

Big Boobs Revisited

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

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

The DA doesn't make deals. And that's why Jesus Salazar is living the free life in Venezuela while a teenage girl lies dead, stabbed 26 times.

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

Lost in Translation

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

Padding the School Policies?

A lawsuit accuses HISD insurance consultants of conning the district

Judging Andrea

A justice surprises critics by reversing the Yates verdict

Insanely Guilty

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

Cleared Again

A complaint against a paralegal gets dismissed

Bar Card

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

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?

The Bradford Game

A mid-trial meltdown scorches the district attorney

Tough Sailing

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

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.

America's New War Against Enron

Lawyers go gunning for corporate terrorists

Driving Miss D.A.-isy

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

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.

Waivering Rights

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

Very Appealing

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