its twenty-six year history, the Texas Civil Rights Project has brought thousands of strategic lawsuits and spearheaded advocacy to protect and expand voting rights, challenge injustices in our broken criminal justice system, and advance racial and economic justice for historically marginalized communities...
Lawsuits brought by prisoners to recover damages for alleged violations of their civil rights have caused problems in American legal systems. Many of these cases have involved alleged violations by prisons or prison officials against inmates. Although many of these claims have no valid legal basis, ...
Debt Lawsuits If you have been sued by a creditor for a debt or an alleged breach of contract, it is important that you respond to the lawsuit as soon as possible. Our debt defense lawyer in Texas has experience in handling debt lawsuits involving credit card debt, debt collectors, medica...
For more than three decades the League has represented the common interests of Texas businesses & individuals in an accessible, efficient, and impartial civil justice system.
ALBM Law Firmis a Texas-based firm with a local, state and national client base. Our client base is unique as we both defend and prosecute civil lawsuits on behalf of those we represent. It includes businesses, banks, leasing companies, design professionals, individual consumers, Fortune 500 ...
The Texas Legislature has set clear deadlines for filing civil injury lawsuits. These are called “statutes of limitations.” If the claim is filed past this deadline, then it will be dismissed by the judge. It will not matter how unjust that might be – the deadline will bar the claim....
Sean “Diddy” Combshas been accused of sexual assault and rape amid a new wave of civil lawsuits. NBC Newsreported on Sunday, October 20, that it obtained “five new civil lawsuits” filed that day by Texas-based attorneyTony Buzbeein the Southern District of New York. The documents, whic...
Lawsuits challenging an Environmental Protection Agency requirement that Texas revise a state pollution plan should be separated from other litigation over the presence of civil penalty shields in state implementation plans, Texas and other petitioners argued (Texas v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 15-1308...
Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Civil Lawyers What is Civil Law? Civil law is a type of law that generally deals with disputes between persons or organizations. Civil lawsuits typically involve a complaint that is filed by one person (the “plaintiff...
A prominent judge in Houston, Texas, was pulled over on suspicion of DUI back in April. She wasallowed to leavewith only a warning, even though the officers believed she had been drinking and observed her driving on the wrong side of the road and speeding. Also, there was no footage of...