Texas Court Orders Snap Inc. to Share Kansas Discovery Documents
A federal judge in Texas ordered Snap Inc. to produce the same documents it provided to Kansas during a parallel jurisdictional probe.
A federal judge in Texas ordered Snap Inc. to produce the same documents it provided to Kansas during a parallel jurisdictional probe.
A federal judge in Texas ruled that Headwater Research LLC’s six-year delay in suing Verizon Wireless to maximize damages constituted an implied waiver of its patent rights, barring the patent assertion entity from enforcing two patents against the telecomm...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas excluded an expert’s opinions on specific economic damages in a Fair Credit Reporting Act case, while allowing testimony on general industry standards and typical credit-report errors.
A federal judge in Texas rejected Dow Chemical’s claim that an internal termination review file was protected by attorney-client privilege, ordering the company to produce the document in an age-discrimination suit brought by a former employee.
Jianming Yu alleged that restaurant owners retaliated against him by altering his W-2 forms to increase his tax liability after he filed a related Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss a RICO fraud suit against a Florida oilman, ruling that the court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant under the statute’s nationwide service of process provision.
A federal court in Texas has consolidated patent infringement suits filed by Piney Woods Mobility LLC against T-Mobile USA, AT&T and Verizon Communications, ordering that future filings be directed to the lead case while preserving individual cases for...
A federal judge in Texas construed key terms in a patent for portable activity centers, ruling that accessories must be exchangeable with one another and that tray surfaces must slope downward toward a central point.
A telecom company faces a unified class action over a 2025 breach that allegedly exposed the names and Social Security numbers of more than 15,000 people.
A Texas federal judge refused to break off H-E-B's case from a 17-defendant patent suit over Bang energy drinks, concluding the grocery chain's supply-chain ties to its co-defendants were too tangled to split.
Court finds Headwater Research waived right to sue Verizon by waiting from 2017 to 2023 to file infringement claims, nullifying $175 million jury verdict.
Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc.’s motion to stay patent infringement proceedings pending inter partes review in Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology Inc. v. HP Inc., et al.
Magistrate Judge Bill Davis has ordered defendants USAA and Softworld, Inc. to respond to a pro se plaintiff’s motion to unseal records in a dismissed civil rights case, noting that the court retains jurisdiction to modify protective orders even after final...
A Texas federal judge certified a class and approved a settlement resolving claims that Mortgage Contracting Services exposed employees' and customers' personal data in an alleged December 2023 cyberattack.
A Quebec hospital network that paid $5.25 million upfront for pandemic masks it never received wins partial summary judgment on contract, conversion, and theft claims after the seller spent the deposit on personal expenses and unrelated business deals.
The Eastern District of Texas granted Panini America's motion to transfer venue to the Northern District of Texas in an antitrust suit alleging the trading card manufacturer excluded a competitor from the premium sports card market.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas overhauled the leadership structure in a consolidated shareholder derivative suit against Globe Life Inc., appointing Plymouth County Retirement Association as lead plaintiff and Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law...
Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the E.D. Tex. granted in part and denied in part Experian’s motion to strike or limit the testimony of plaintiff Ronald Alexander Garcia Delgado’s expert, Douglas Hollon.
Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas denied Toyota’s motions to dismiss and strike class allegations in a putative nationwide class action regarding defective door lock actuators, resolving key procedural hurdles for Rule 23 certification.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas kept alive Securities Act claims tied to a false representation in the Orthofix-SeaSpine merger agreement, while dismissing the Exchange Act fraud counts because plaintiffs' own allegations undercut their los...