Toxic Tort Law
 
Marty G. Ringham and Premiere Plus Realty Company v. Craig Bernstein and Varna Bernstein

Dallas, Texas – Real Estate lawyer represented Appellants with a interlocutory appeal denying their special appearances in a lawsuit filed.



The live petition states that in about early 2020, Texas resident Craig Bernstein listed a Florida condominium unit he owned (the property) for sale with a Florida real estate bro

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In the Interest of A.H., a Child

San Antonio, Texas – Family Law lawyer represented Appellant with a parental rights termination case.



A.H. was about one year old when CPS started a case for her and petitioned the trial court for her removal from Mom’s home due to domestic violence and parenting concerns. A.H. was the eighth child to be removed fro

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RJG PllC v. Hobbs Straus Dean and Walker, L.P.

El Reno, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, which sued defendant on a tort interference with contact theory claiming more than $10,000 in damages and/or injuries.

Plaintiff claimed that he graduated from the University of Oklahoma Law School in 1993. One of his first clients was the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and provided legal services to the tribe relating t

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Patrick Fox and Katie Fox v. City of Tulsa

Tulsa, Oklahoma pro se plaintiffs sued the City of Tulsa on a Governmental Tort Claims Act negligence theories claiming that they suffered $25,000 in damages as a direct result of the City storm sewer failing with the result that sink holes developed on their property causing their patio to collapse.

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Mildred Greer v. State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Department of Transportation

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Governmental Tort Claims Act (51 O.S. 156) negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $10,000 in damages and/or injuries.

Plaintiff claimed that on August 19, 2018, Plaintiff fell into a hole along Highway 75, near Lewis and Apache created by Defendant and not covered and was seriously injured

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Al Suarez, as Mayor of the City of Converse; et al v. Katherine Silvas

San Antonio, Texas – Governmental Law lawyer represented Appellee with appealing her removal from office as a Converse City Council member.



Silvas Elected to Office In November 2018, Katherine Silvas was elected to Place 4 for the Converse City Council; she was sworn in, and she began serving as a council member.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Magali Villalobos v. Ryan's Pointe Houston, LLC and Advantage Property Management, LLC

Houston, Texas civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued defendant on a job discrimination theory.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against
Ryan’s Pointe Houston, L.L.C. and Advantage Property Management,
L.L.C., alleging the companies had engaged in national origin and sex-based
discrimination. Magali Villalobos, the subject of the adverse

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City of Eagle Pass v. Isabel Velasquez Perez, individually and a/n/f of Vanessa Velasquez, minor

San Antonio, Texas – Personal Injury lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from an order in a personal injury lawsuit.



This case arises from an accident that occurred on Garrison Street in Eagle Pass, Texas. Isabel’s petition alleged that Vanessa was attempting to cross Garrison Street in Eagle Pass after co

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Chris Whinery v. Premier Funeral Management Group IV, LLC

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful termination theory.


Plaintiff Chris Whinery was employed by Defendant Premier Funeral Management Group IV, LLC (“Premier”) from the time it purchased his parents' funeral home business in October 2014 until Premier terminated his employment in December 2019. At the time of the

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The City of Austin v. Irene Quinlan

Austin, Texas – Personal Injury lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the district court’s order in a personal injury case.



The following summary is taken from the allegations in Quinlan’s fourth
amended petition and the City’s amended plea to the jurisdiction, the live pleadings in the case.

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David Polston; Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inc.; Inland Recycling, L.L.C.; and Boundary Ventures, Inc. v. The State of Texas, Lower Colorado River Authority, and Colorado County, Texas

Austin, Texas – Environmental Litigation lawyer represented Appellants with appealing from an injunction to operate a waste-processing facility.




Polston is the president of Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland
Recycling, and Boundary Ventures. Appellants own and/or operate a waste-processing facility
tha

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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth v. Stephen Featherly

Fort Worth, Texas Personal Injury lawyer represented Defendant challenging hospital’s lien.



In this case, a hospital filed a statutory lien against an emergency room patient’s
personal injury cause of action, and the patient brought this declaratory judgment action
to challenge the validity of the hospital’s lien

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Jose Pignano and Cora Pignano v. Robert L. Cash, M.D.

Fort Worth, Texas – Medical Malpractice lawyer represented Appellant with a health care liability claim.



In three issues, Appellants Jose Pignano and his wife, Cora Pignano, challenge
a summary judgment granted in favor of Appellee Robert L. Cash, M.D. on their
health care liability claim. Dr. Cash’s motion for summ

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Keith D. Aikens v. Charlene K. Dueling

Fort Worth, Texas – Civil Litgation lawyer represented Appellant with a negligence, gross negligence, and premises liability charges.



In a single issue, Appellant Keith D. Aikens challenges the trial court’s order
granting Appellee Charlene K. Dueling’s traditional and no-evidence motion for
summary judgment and o

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CHG Hospital Bellaire, LLC v. Seketa Johnson

Houston, Texas – Personal Injury lawyer represented Appellee with suing for negligence, premises liability, and gross negligence.



In August 2019, Johnson sued CHG-Bellaire for negligence, premises
liability, and gross negligence, alleging that she sustained injuries while training as
a nurse at a hospital operated by

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Edward Muehlner and June Muehlner v. Jean Pierre Convert and Yolande Convert

Houston, Texas – Real Estate lawyer represented defendant with a residential property boundary line dispute.



The Converts purchased their house from its builder in July 1997 and have
continuously resided on the property since. When purchased, there was a wooden
fence between the Converts’ house and the neighboring

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Val Gurka and Terri Gurka v. Araceli Jaimes dba AGVR Construction & Remodeling, et al.

Houston, Texas – Civil Litigation lawyer represented Appellants with asserting negligence and gross negligence claims.



The Gurkas own property in an unincorporated part of Harris County. This
property lies within the 100-year floodplain as designated by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (“FEMA”). The Base F

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Edward Foussadier v. Triple B. Services, LL

Houston, Texas – Personal Injury lawyer represented Appellant with alleging claims for negligence and breach of implied warranty against Appellee.



The facts of the underlying lawsuit are discussed in our initial opinion.
Foussadier v. Triple B Servs., LLP, No. 01-18-00106-CV, 2019 WL 2127604, at
*1 (Tex. App.—Houst

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JETALL COMPANIES, INC. V. RICHARD HEIL, TODD OAKUM, AND RENEE DAVY F/K/A RENEE DAVY F/K/A RENEE OAKUM

Houston, Texas – Employment lawyer represented Appellant with contending the trial court erred on its tort and contract claims against appellees.



Jetall’s claims against appellees in the underlying lawsuit derive from an
earlier, separate lawsuit to which appellees were parties but Jetall was not—namely,
a wrongf

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Sandeep Patel and ERCC Construction Company, LLC v. Warwick Construction, Inc.

Houston, Texas – Civil Litgation lawyer represented Appellee with alleging fraud and engaging in a conspiracy to commit fraud against appellants.


Sandeep Patel is the managing member of ERCC. Syed Anwar, Aman Jafar,
and Khurram Ibrihim are the other members of ERCC, which was formed in 2011.
Patel, Anwar, Jafar, and I

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ANTHONY G. BUZBEE AND ANTHONY G. BUZBEE, LP D/B/A THE BUZBEE LAW FIRM V. TERRY & THWEATT, P.C.

Houston, Texas – Civil Litgation lawyer represented appellee with a tortious interference with contract claim.



Terry & Thweatt, P.C., and Anthony G. Buzbee, LP d/b/a The Buzbee Law
Firm (“the Buzbee Law Firm”) are both law firms with offices located in Houston.
The underlying dispute between them arose after Jade

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Otis Lindell Chapman and Kim Chapman v. Monsanto Company

Houston, Texas personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant on a product liability theory.

Roundup is an herbicide used to kill weeds. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. In 1985, the Environmental Protection Agency briefly classified glyphosate as a possible human carcinogen after a study found that “glyphosate was oncogenic in male mice.” Since then

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Amanda Masters v. Ohio Department of Medicaid, et al.

Columbus, Ohio civil rights violation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a right to medicaid theory.


{¶ 1} The appellants in this case are Amanda and Bud Masters, individually and as mother and father and next friends of F.M., a minor (collectively the "Masters"). The appellees are the Ohio Department of Medicaid ("Department"), Maureen Corcoran, Director of the De

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Walter E. Tate v. Browning-Ferris, Inc.

¶1 Pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 1981 §§ 1601 et seq., the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma certified for this court's answer the following question:

"Where an at-will employee terminated by a private employer files suit alleging facts that, if true, violate state and federal statutes providing remedies for emplo

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Waggoner v. Town & Country Mobile Homes, Inc.

¶1 This appeal presents an issue of first impression. Did the trial court err by instructing the jury on manufacturers' products liability when a design defect caused only deterioration in the product itself resulting in purely economic loss? We answer in the affirmative and hold that such a claim must be pursued as a warranty action.

¶2 There is a second issue. Did the trial court err

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