Miriam Rozen

August 28, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Texas plaintiffs counsel welcomed a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling upholding employees' use of a "cat's paw" theory of liability when they allege that their employers retaliated against them for complaining about discrimination.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

August 26, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Layne Hardin and Katherine LeBlanc alleged that Tobie Devall retrieved vials of Hardin's sperm from a sperm bank, had herself inseminated and gave birth to his child, all without his permission.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

August 26, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Layne Hardin and Katherine LeBlanc alleged that Tobie Devall retrieved vials of Hardin's sperm from a sperm bank, had herself inseminated and gave birth to his child, all without his permission.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

August 25, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

The Fifth Circuit reversed a Houston trial judge and allowed Houston-based International Energy Ventures Management to continue to pursue a $46.5 million breach-of-contract dispute against Hong Kong-based United Energy Group, which purchased BP's Pakistani oil and gas assets in 2011.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

August 25, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

The Fifth Circuit reversed a Houston trial judge and allowed Houston-based International Energy Ventures Management to continue to pursue a $46.5 million breach-of-contract dispute against Hong Kong-based United Energy Group, which purchased BP's Pakistani oil and gas assets in 2011.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

August 24, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

With their appeal, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the plaintiffs seek to overturn a Dallas federal judge's pretrial rulings and to schedule a new trial.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

August 24, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

With their appeal, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the plaintiffs seek to overturn a Dallas federal judge's pretrial rulings and to schedule a new trial.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

August 21, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is disappointed and evaluating options after a federal appeals court ruled that the state must pay roughly $1 million in attorney fees to plaintiffs who intervened in Voting Rights Act litigation, according to Cynthia Meyer, an Office of the Attorney General spokeswoman.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

August 21, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen in Brownsville stopped short of ordering the federal government to unwind work permits it issued to 108,000 immigrants under an immigration reform program.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

August 21, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is disappointed and evaluating options after a federal appeals court ruled that the state must pay roughly $1 million in attorney fees to plaintiffs who intervened in Voting Rights Act litigation, according to Cynthia Meyer, an Office of the Attorney General spokeswoman.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read