By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 4, 2017
The Louisiana Civil Justice Center, created after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005, is putting its disaster-response chops to work by manning a hotline for people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands who have legal questions in the wake of Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria.
By Kristen Rasmussen | September 15, 2017
A federal judge in Texas sentenced a woman with advanced metastatic cancer to 75 years in prison for Medicare fraud last month amid a crackdown on health care fraud by the government. Here's what we learned about the case.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | September 14, 2017
Texas plaintiffs firms have begun filing lawsuits on behalf of clients who live in Houston neighborhoods that flooded when the Army Corps of Engineers authorized controlled water releases from two reservoirs in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. The suits allege that the intentional flooding was an unlawful government taking of property, violating the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
By Kristen Rasmussen | September 12, 2017
Damaged by Hurricane Irma, one of the federal courthouses on the U.S. Virgin Islands remains closed indefinitely, officials said Tuesday.
By Cogan Schneier | September 7, 2017
The court upheld a district court ruling that said grandparents of U.S. citizens and other family members of U.S. residents are exempt from President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order.
By John Council | September 7, 2017
In a surprising mix of potential U.S. District judges, President Donald Trump today announced his first five judicial nominees in Texas including two people who were formerly nominated by former President Barack Obama and two lawyers who've worked for the First Liberty Legal Institute, a conservative religious freedom organization.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | September 5, 2017
Ten days after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating 80 fraud claims.
By Tim K. Garrett, The Corporate Counselor | September 5, 2017
Editor's Note: Judge Mazzant issued a final ruling striking down the overtime rule. The Texas Federal Judge used essentially the same reasoning on which he based his temporary injunction ruling. In light of this final decision, the appeal of his temporary injunction likely becomes moot.
By Karen Sloan | September 5, 2017
The three campuses—the University of Houston Law Center, South Texas College of Law Houston and Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law—all escaped serious damage and flooding, though some law faculty, staff and students have lost homes, cars and other property.
By Tom McParland | September 5, 2017
President Donald Trump is expected in the coming weeks to announce his nominees for two openings on Delaware's federal bench, as his administration vets three candidates forwarded by the state's two Democratic senators.
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