On HoustonChronicle.com: ITC resumes rail, truck activity at Deer Park terminalAn ITC spokesperson said the company does not know how many eligible claims have been filed. ITC, however, stills faces a federal lawsuit from a Harris County woman seeking class action status in addition to 22 civil lawsuits in state court in Harris County. The Harris County District Attorney’s office also has filed …
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) is a non-profit organization which, through Congressional authorization, oversees the actions of broker-dealers and 634,000 member brokers who are involved in the securities markets. When one of its members violates its rules or securities laws, they sanction the firm or individual by imposing fines, disciplinary actions and, if egregious enough, …
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., will likely lose an effort to get a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that she abused her authority as California’s attorney general. On Wednesday, a San Diego dstrict court judge indicated the allegations likely have enough merit to go to trial. “At this juncture, given the limited scope the court has to view these allegations … it seems almost inconceivable the …
The parents of a teen who died while in custody of several Harris County deputies are filing a lawsuit against them, alleging they used unreasonable deadly force at the end of a chase involving their son. According to a lawsuit filed in February 2017, several Harris County Sheriff’s deputies used a Taser to subdue 18 …
IMDb has sued California’s Attorney General (and soon to be U.S. senator) Kamala Harris in an effort to overturn a new law that requires the company’s IMDb Pro to remove the ages of actors and others listed on the site if asked by them to do so. Related State Assembly Bill No. 1687 was narrowly crafted to apply only to “commercial online entertainment employment providers” that charge a …
A woman says a Chicago-based debt collection firm improperly attempted to collect a medical debt she owed, under a payment plan she maintained she never agreed to, and even though she was never placed into collections. And the woman has now filed a potential class action suit, believing the debt collector has behaved similarly toward others like her. On Sept. 16, plaintiff Angelica Griffin, …
Hartford officials have reversed their position and now say they won’t pay damages that might be awarded against two city police officers in an upcoming trial over an illegal police search that ended with one of the officers killing a family’s dog. The move means that the officers, Johnmichael O’Hare and Anthony Pia, may be personally liable to pay any jury awards, and …
Lawyers for Ron Hickman of Harris County filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by a rape victim whom prosecutors got a judge to put in jail after the victim had a mental breakdown while testifying against her accused rapist. Channel 2 exposed the situation of “Jenny” and another rape victim who were held in jail so prosecutors could make sure they testified against …
Attorneys began questioning witnesses Monday in a defamation lawsuit involving an e-mail the state treasurer’s Chief of Staff Jim Harris sent out and released to KATV, as well as whether the e-mail at the center of the defamation suit led to Treasurer Dennis Milligan firing former employee David Singer. Singer is suing Jim Harris, alleging “slanderous and defamatory remarks” in regard to …
The Texas Supreme Court dealt a blow Friday to hundreds of families whose homes were ruined by 1998’s Tropical Storm Frances, 2001’s Tropical Storm Allison and a 2002 flooding event. The high court dismissed a class-action lawsuit that Edward and Norma Jean Kerr filed 15 years ago against the Harris County Flood Control District on behalf of …