Litigator Louis Bonham says he has developed a theory: Never make jury panels crunch any more numbers than necessary. In Hewlett Custom Home Design Inc. v. Frontier Homebuilders Inc., et al., a copyright-infringement case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, Bonham applied that principle when he represented … Read More »

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“. . . I have selected the Judicial Council of the District of Columbia Circuit to accept the transfer and to exercise the powers of a judicial council with respect to the identified complaint and any pending or new complaints relating to the same subject matter,” wrote U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

While a Yale Law School student, Texas native Christian A. “Chris” Garza says he never imagined he’d be doing the work he does today. “In law school, you didn’t really know what in-house practice was,” says Garza, director, general counsel and secretary for Cosentino North America in Houston. “At Yale, most aspire to become politicians … Read More »

Jones dissented to a 2-1 unpublished decision reassigning a last-minute appeal to a new panel of 5th Circuit judges.