March 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Friday ordered a new trial after finding that Texas-based counsel for American Realty Investors Inc. used disparaging comments in reference to the opposing party and an expert witness, and also denigrated a rival attorney, in a published decision that wiped out a jury's judgment in the company's long-running dispute with an investor.
October 19, 2023
A Texas federal judge said he is open to granting a housing investor's request to stay an order awarding attorneys' fees in a $63 million dispute with a real estate company while an appeal is pending at the Fifth Circuit.