NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer who worked at a Houston law firm that has run afoul of the law will get a second chance to show he shouldn't have been suspended for nine months.
The State of Texas secured a rehearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that will allow the floating buoy barrier installed in the Rio Grande to remain in place until the full court hears the case.
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A medical society’s recommendations for the treatment of Lyme disease aren’t facts subject to claims of misrepresentation, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, throwing out a long-running lawsuit by plaintiffs who claimed infectious disease doctors had been bribed by insurance companies to deny care for chronic Lyme.