By Bill Hanna Star-Telegram ELECTRA — Inside his local bank, Terry McAlister pulls the tattered documents out of the safe-deposit box. The abstract of title, which includes pages that have been affixed to newer pieces of paper to keep them from fraying, dates to 1899....
JMEH partners Luke Ellis and Justin Hodge represented a landowner in a jury trial over the disputed value of a pipeline easement. The Plaintiff pipeline company had offered $80,000. After a week-long trial, the jury returned a verdict of $1.6 million, which resulted...
Justin Hodge and Chris Johns, two JMEH partners, will present “Property Damages: Valuing Property Rights in Condemnation, Groundwater, and Oil-and-Gas Disputes” at the Texas Bar CLE’s Program on Damages in Civil Litigation on Feb. 6, 2014. The presentation will take...
JMEH Partner Joe Marrs, upon invitation from the Houston Bar Association, presented on developing a probate litigation practice on June 20, 2013 as part of the HBA’s CLE program.
The University of Texas Law School invited partners Luke Ellis and Justin Hodge to speak at its 2013 Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute event held in Houston. The two presented a session titled “Supreme Court Landowner Condemnation—Landowner...
Texas Super Lawyers Magazine, an annually-published list of attorneys chosen through a comprehensive selection process, featured four JMEH partners in its 2013 publication. The partners earned a “Rising Star” distinction in Eminent Domain, Appellate, and Estate and...
"Land owners increasingly are pit against private businesses in state legislatures and courts as the U.S. confronts the new transmission lines, pipelines and compressor stations needed to reduce oil imports and produce clean energy at home. Lines between pro-green...
The Fifth Circuit said Monday there’s insufficient evidence Fresenius Medical Care North America retaliated against a worker alleging illegal kickbacks involving Medicare patients, and also found that a district court's sanctions against an attorney in the False...
Mexico's president-elect asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to evaluate the murder case of a Mexican woman who was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the death of a Texas boy. Enrique Peña Nieto filed a brief in his personal capacity supporting the appeal of Rosa...
Mary Moore was in the living room combing her little sister’s hair when she smelled the smoke. The 10-year-old knew right away that it meant trouble. She had been left to baby-sit her five younger siblings and two cousins as her mother worked grinding eyeglass lenses....