Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
This week — as vast slicks of oil fowled beaches from Louisiana to Florida — the U.S. Supreme Court held against beachfront property owners. The fight involved the question of who owns seven miles of sand touching the Gulf of Mexico in the Florida Panhandle.
The startling thing? Four Justices voted to deem property rulings by state courts of…
Two of Blawgletter's partners, Terry Oxford and Ophelia Camina, today brought in a verdict for $250 million on behalf of Dillard's.
At the end of a trial that started on May 17, a Dallas County jury found i2 Technologies, a software company, liable for fraud and awarded Dillard's about $100 million in actual…
The second phase of Blawgletter's trial ended last Wednesday. How'd it go? Like this:
DALLAS, June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Susman Godfrey lawyers again teamed with colleagues from Kelly, Hart & Hallman and Energy Future Holdings Corp. ("EFH"), this time in defeating a $50 million breach of contract claim by Alcoa against Luminant in
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You know — of course you do — that almost any complex case calls for the help of an Expert Witness. Possibly several.
She or he may opine about a Great Many Things, from where the product market starts and ends, to the amount of damages, and (even) to the air-speed velocity of an unladen…
Blawgletter admires the careful work that goes into rulings by our U.S. courts of appeals. But we especially like the effort that some, but not all, of the courts put into making the decision-making process, up high and down below, transparent.
Seven of the courts stand out. This bare majority of the 13 circuits show in their opinions both the date of…
Stop Blawgletter if you've heard this one before.
A lady trips on a cable during an oceanic cruise. Injuries ensue. She sues Cruise Company A. Cruise Company A points the Finger of Blame at Cruise Company B, saying that Cruise Company A merely served as sales agent for Cruise Company B, the actual owner and sailer of…
You may have noticed that Blawgletter hasn't posted much since early May. The following tells you why:
DALLAS, June 4 /PRNewswire/ — Susman Godfrey lawyers led a trial team that cleared Luminant of charges that the company breached a major power supply contract with Alcoa and acted in bad faith.
Alcoa claimed that Luminant
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The Cameron (Texas) Herald reports today:
After just a little more than two hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Luminant in its breach of contract case against Alcoa.
After resting their case in chief, the attorneys for Luminant requested a directed verdict for a second time, but the request was
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Blawgletter starts a jury trial on Monday, May 17.
Expect spotty posting for awhile.
Does a contingent fee give lawyers too much control over public nuisance cases?
Or can public entities control the lawyers enough to prevent abuse of the governmental power they wield?
The Supreme Court of California heard argument on those questions this week (finally). Kimberley Kralowec at The UCL Practitioner gives us a blow-by-blow.
The Rhode…