Texas School Mask Mandate Ban Upheld by Federal Appeals Court July 26, 2022 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins Texas Governor Greg Abbott can maintain his ban on school mask mandates, a federal appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel...
Uvalde Parents and Teacher Seek Documents From Gun Maker After School Shooting June 6, 2022 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Francesca Maglione Parents of a slain fourth grader and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, are laying the groundwork...
As Uvalde Parents Seethe, Recourse Against Police May Be Limited May 31, 2022 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins Texas police accused of bungling the response to a mass shooter in an Uvalde school where 19 children and two...
Judge Triples Award for Hewlett Packard Against Quanta in Price-Fixing Scheme January 6, 2020 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins HP Inc. was awarded $439 million in damages against Quanta Storage Inc. and its U.S. subsidiary after a federal judge...
Judge Blocks Obama’s Overtime Pay Raise for White Collar Workers November 23, 2016 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins An Obama administration policy that would have given more white-collar workers overtime starting Dec. 1 was blocked nationwide by a...
GM Is Winning Ignition-Switch Defect Trials August 29, 2016 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins General Motors Co.’s victory in a Houston courtroom Thursday makes the carmaker three for three in trials related to an...
Wrong Key Fails to Derail Texas GM Ignition Suit August 24, 2016 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins General Motors LLC failed to derail a Texas family’s claim for damages over a car crash blamed on a faulty...
Lying About Gulf Oil Spill Size to Investors to Cost BP $175M June 3, 2016 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc said it agreed to pay $175 million to settle claims by U.S. investors that its managers lied about...
BP Relents on Gulf Seafood Processors’ Oil Spill Damages But Still Pursues Attorney May 4, 2016 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk After fighting for more than two years to avoid paying almost $1 billion in oil spill damages to Gulf Coast...
Anadarko’s $160 Million Fine for 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Falls Well Below What U.S. Sought November 30, 2015 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk Anadarko Petroleum Corp. was ordered to pay almost $160 million for its role as part-owner of the doomed Gulf of...