Miriam Rozen

March 13, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Departing from his colleagues in a redistricting ruling, Judge Jerry Smith said the DOJ lawyers left the impression that they viewed state officials as "backwoods hayseed bigots."

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

March 10, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Special prosecutors asked for a postponement of the criminal trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton citing their lack of compensation as the reason for the delay.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 08, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Supreme Court has rejected BP America Production Co.'s request that the justices take away decision-making power from juries.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

March 07, 2017 | National Law Journal

Environmental lawyers are promising court fights and public backlash in the wake of a regulatory rollback. They even brought up the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

March 06, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Famed Houston litigator Tony Buzbee is accusing Harris County DA of "playing politics" by refusing to honor an agreement to expunge a DWI case.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

March 03, 2017 | Litigation Daily

Some wins take time. Sullivan & Cromwell partners Robert Giuffra Jr. and Brendan Cullen know that for sure--it took them almost 15 years to win dismissal of a would-be class action against UBS stemming from Enron's collapse.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

March 02, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant wrote that Ken Paxton had no "plausible legal duty" to disclose his commission arrangements to investors who bought shares in a tech startup.

By MIRIAM ROZEN

6 minute read

March 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Private civil rights lawyers may still prevail on a claim that Texas lawmakers intentionally discriminated against blacks and Hispanics when they passed the state's voter ID law, even though the U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice has abandoned that argument.

By Miriam Rozen

11 minute read

March 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

A two-week trial pitted a Schlumberger subsidiary against National Oilwell Varco, cost both well-lawyered sides each more than $1.3 million, and ended this week with a mixed jury ruling. The panel's ruling also has set the stage for post-verdict battle for the ages between the two energy companies, which are fighting about a worker who switched employers, leading to allegations of trade-secrets theft.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

March 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

Almost 15 years ago, a jury convicted Linda Anita Carty of capital murder and put the former teacher, who is now a grandmother, on Texas' death row. According to Houston prosecutors' allegations, Carty, who was born on the island of St. Kitts, at the time a British protectorate, and holds British citizenship and a U.S. passport, went inside a neighbor's apartment, directed the victim's kidnapping and ultimately held a bag over the victim's head, causing her death in 2001—all to get possession of the murdered woman's infant child.

By Miriam Rozen

25 minute read