Miriam Rozen

March 14, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Civil Rights Project has a new director and, with her arrival, a renewed focused on voting rights. On March 14, the Austin-based nonprofit filed a lawsuit on behalf of a proposed class of voters and against the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 11, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A former third-year medical student filed a lawsuit against Texas A&M University College of Medicine and Michael Young, the president of its parent school. In it, Danyal Shaikh, the plaintiff, alleges that TAMU staff member misdiagnosed him as suffering from a psychiatric condition, when he in fact suffered from a noncancerous brain tumor.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

March 10, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A four-year study of sexual assaults that the UT System's Board of Regents launched last August on 13 of its campuses and institutions will help administrators forge new approaches to handling investigations of such allegations, said Wanda Mercer, an associate vice chancellor.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

March 10, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on March 9 agreed to rehear en banc civil-rights plaintiffs case against Texas' voter ID law.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

March 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Five law firms that represent a class of corporate plaintiffs pursuing antitrust litigation against News Corp. have been given free rein by the company to request as much as 30 percent of a proposed $244 million settlement.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

March 09, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A state district judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by two men who claimed the University of Texas unfairly targeted them and denied them due process after they were accused of committing sexual assaults.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 09, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

After a monthlong trial and two and half days of deliberations, a San Antonio jury issued this month a $124.5 million verdict against German auto manufacturer Audi AG and its parent company and distributor, Volkswagen Group of America.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Lewis Isaacks, a partner in Plano's Gay Mccall Isaacks Gordon & Roberts, and Emily Newhouse, a Plano solo, together represented Newhouse's father, a crop insurance representative, and his company in a dispute against the owner of an insurance company.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A Vietnamese-American boat owner, captain and fisher woman filed a lawsuit against Bob Hilliard and his firm, Hilliard Munoz Gonzales in Corpus Christi, and John Cracken and his firm, The Cracken Law Firm in Dallas. In her lawsuit, the plaintiff, Thim Nguyen, alleges that the two high-profile plaintiff lawyers stole her name and identity and those of 45,500 other Vietnamese-Americans who fish for a living in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of their plan to gain more than $2 billion in payments from BP after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

March 04, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Five law firms that represent a class of corporate plaintiffs pursuing antitrust litigation against News Corp. may receive attorney fees equal to as much as 30 percent of a proposed $244 million settlement--or $73 million.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read