Miriam Rozen

September 19, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In a lawsuit against New York's Proskauer Rose, stemming from disgraced financier R. Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme, all the litigants jointly asked on Sept. 16 a presiding Dallas federal judge for a rare exception to his usual rules about protective orders.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

September 15, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Business advocates who criticize the DOL's proposed "persuader rule" as trampling attorney-client protections won a nationwide preliminary injunction in June halting implementation of the regulation. But neither side has called the fight over yet as cases are pending in Texas, Arkansas and Minnesota.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

September 13, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A Dallas federal judge set for Sept. 19 a hearing when he will consider a preliminary injunction sought by Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt Massachusetts Attorney General's investigation into allegations it misled consumers about climate change. In advance of hearing, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office led a 10-state coalition, which filed a friend of court brief supporting the oil company's strategy and proposed preliminary injunction.

By Miriam Rozen

14 minute read

September 12, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In a patent lawsuit, a Tyler, Texas, federal judge scheduled for next month a hearing to determine whether lawyers from Dallas' Buether Joe & Carpenter and their patent infringement plaintiff corporate client, Marshall, Texas-based Wireless Remote Systems, should be sanctioned for filing an infringement claim, given that the company no longer owns the disputed patents.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

September 08, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. Department of Justice lawyers filed a motion this week alleging that, in court-ordered educational voter educational materials, Texas state officials have recast language to communicate a narrowing of opportunities for voters to cast regular ballots.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

September 08, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Four months before it won a $5.3 million jury verdict against a union that allegedly disparaged it, Professional Janitorial Service of Houston hired a new team of litigators, led by John Zavitsanos of Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing in Houston, to try the case.

By Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

September 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Drama and divorces go hand in hand, but not usually from alleged 
forum-shopping and filing successive divorces in multiple Texas jurisdictions.

By Miriam Rozen

17 minute read

September 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas, once again postponed any sanctions of U.S. Department of Justice lawyers.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

September 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In products liability litigation, an East Texas federal judge denied a motion for sanctions for alleged spoliation sought by Chrysler Group against the widow of a man who died while driving a Jeep Wrangler.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

August 31, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In a rare instance of a dram shop litigation netting more than $250,000, the victim of a drunken driving accident has reached a nearly $6.5 million settlement.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read