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U.S. Courts

  • News

    May 3, 2012
  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Section 8 Video Game: Judge Rejects $7 Million Award to Publishers

    A federal judge has rejected the $7.3 million award an arbitrator gave publishers of the first-person shoot game Section 8 in their lawsuit against the game's publishers. Game developer TimeGate had sued publisher Gone Off Deep (and the companies that subsequently purchased it) in 2009 over royalti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    KBR Loses Bid to Have Iraqi Court Hear Electrocution Suit

    Ryan Maseth: Electrocuted while showering at an Iraq base.​A federal judge has said no to KBR's move to have a (friendly) court in Iraq, rather than one in America, handle the lawsuit filed against the company by survivors of a Green Beret who was electrocuted in one of their facilities. U.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Whitney Harper: Song Downloader's Appeal Slapped Down By U.S. Supreme Court

    Faith Hill shall not be denied​Five record labels that sued a 16-year-old San Antonio girl six years ago for illegally downloading a bunch of shitty music the labels vomited upon the listening public can finally exhale: the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the girl's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Walter Netschi: Convicted On $80 Million Ponzi Scheme, He Got His Start Right Here In Houston

    Walter Netschi sneers at ATMs that actually exist​A former Houstonian is headed to prison for running an $80 million Ponzi scheme that involved selling stakes in non-existent ATMs. Part of his downfall: An investor apparently so impressed he owned an ATM that he went to see it in person.The invest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Victoria Human-Smuggling Deaths Spur Another Lawsuit -- This Time Against The Truck's Manufacturer

    The semi should have had airholes, suit says​It's been seven years since the human-smuggling tragedy in Victoria, in which 19 undocumented immigrants died and around 100 people suffered brutal conditions, trapped inside a tractor-trailer transporting them across Texas.Late last week, however, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Cop-Beating Video Will Stay Under Seal: Judge Agrees It's Gonna Go Viral Big-Time

    Rodney King might be wondering if Houston can get along​A federal judge has ruled that the video of Houston cops beating a 16-year-old handcuffed suspect will be kept under wraps until trial, and his reasoning gives even more credence to the theory that when it finally comes out, it's going to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Mail Carrier Stole Netflix DVDs, Leaving Spring Without A Chance To Appreciate Paul Blart, Mall Cop

    The entertainment this man deprived Spring of, it boggles the mind​If you live in Spring and are wondering whatever happened to your promised Netflix delivery of Jennifer Aniston's The Bounty Hunter, there may be an answer. (And you're probably just as well off not seeing the thing anyway.)Rudolph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Bob Perry Loses A Big Verdict In Fort Worth

    Bob Perry​Houston homebuilder Bob Perry usually gets what he wants, whether it's John Kerry getting Swift-Boated out of the White House or a Texas Supreme Court filled with his pals and recipients of his campaign cash.One thing he really wanted was to beat Bob & Jane Cull of Mansfield in a cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Judge Says No To Beards In The HPD

    ​The effort by some Houston police officers to wear beards on the job (and off the job, too, we guess) was dealt a setback when a federal judge threw their lawsuit out of court.HPD brass trumpeted the decision by U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal in a press release in which chief Harold Hurtt said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Judge Kent Ducks One Last Bit Of Shame

    Sam Kent, the overly touchy-feely federal judge from Galveston who's in prison on charges relating to drunken sexual harassment of his female employees, resigned today.He apparently did it to stave off a conviction by the Senate, which along with the House had been fast-tracking his impeachment. Ken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    What's Wal-Mart Got Against Sex Offenders?

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    Lawyer Says Galveston's Elite Were Allowed Back On The Island Before Others

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2008

    Halliburton Depositions Could Start Soon in Iraq Case

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2007

    Rap-a-Lot’s J. Prince Sues Apple, BET

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2007

    Litton Loan Litigants Granted Class Status (say that five times fast)

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2007

    A Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2007

    Abort Mission

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Civil Attorney

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Court Ruling

    Sex offenders have rights too. Don’t they? At least one Missouri City woman who was convicted of a sex crime is out to prove just that in court after being fired from her job at Wal-Mart. Rebecca Vlasek, 37, claims that Wal-Mart fired her and more than 800 registered sex offenders, in line ... More >>

  • News

    May 2, 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.

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    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.

  • Culture

    February 15, 2001

    Cough It Up

    The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Hard Knox

    In an ACLU test case on brutality, jurors side with state prison guards

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Good Times, Bad Times

    A federal lawsuit accuses the county of upping the pressure for guilty pleas

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