A group of attorneys have asked a federal judge not to punish them next week for seeking a more favorable forum in a class-action lawsuit, arguing punishment would be unnecessary and overly harsh. Thirteen attorneys in the 2014 case Adams v. United Services Automobile Association are to go before Chief U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III the morning of June 24 for a hearing on …
Attorneys for the family of a woman who died in one of Michael Morton’s nursing homes filed arguments and hundreds of pages of sworn testimony Wednesday in an attempt to keep a corruption lawsuit against Morton and lobbyist Gilbert Baker alive. Among those giving depositions under oath to attorneys gathering information for the lawsuit were Morton; Baker; lobbyists Bruce Hawkins and …
More than a dozen lawyers who already face a federal judge’s penalties tied to ethics violations in a class-action insurance lawsuit last year — Adams v. USAA — find themselves in another legal tangle involving the same case. Now, policyholders for the insurance company United Services Automobile Association have sued. The latest court action, Wartick v. USAA, alleges that 12 plaintiffs’ …