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Land Battles Rise as U.S. Eyes 450,000 Miles of New Pipe
"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...
5th Circ. Says Fresenius FCA Suit Not Supported By Evidence
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...
Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President-Elect, Files Brief With U.S. Supreme Court On Behalf Of Rosa Estela Olvera Jimenez, Convicted Undocumented Immigrant
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...
Donated Money Goes Up in Smoke in the Years After Dallas Girl Saved Seven from House Fire
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....
Four UT Classmates Launch Litigation Boutique in Austin, Houston
By Natalie Posgate Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook Johns Marrs Ellis & Hodge isn’t just a new litigation boutique with offices in Houston and Austin. It’s a reunion for four law school classmates, who always dreamed about working together. Chris Johns remembers...
4 Texas Attorneys Partner in Litigation Boutique
Jess Davis, Law360 Four former law school classmates have opened a Texas-based civil litigation boutique that has offices in Houston and Austin with an emphasis on eminent domain, complex commercial disputes, and probate and fiduciary matters, the firm said Wednesday....
Air Liquide in $23 Million Arbitration Over Hydrogen Plant
Deon Daugherty, Reporter- Houston Business Journal Air Liquide Process & Construction Inc., a Houston division of the French industrial and medical gas provider Air Liquide, is engaged in private arbitration to resolve a $23 million dispute with Turner Industries...
Family Sues Local Companies for Fraud
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