A Bexar County jury awarded a former employee of San Antonio Water Systems $1.6 million in state district court. The former SAWS employee alleged she had been fired after she reprimanded the Vice-President for Communications because he asked a female employee to lunch. See San Antonio Express News report. Debra Nicholas had been special
March 2012
Jurors Take Home Evidence
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Litigation and trial practice
Crazy things happen in trials. One recent jury in Bexar County apparently took some evidence home. One of the jurors pocketed a picture of a boy in the hospital – who was the subject of an abuse trial. See San Antonio Express News report. A couple of the jurors took pictures home – perhaps…
Arbitration Results in Suit for Fraud
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Contracts
I first wrote about this case here. An arbitrator failed to disclose his relationship with the attorney for one of the parties. The arbitrator, Robert Faulkner, a former US Magistrate, had long standing ties with the lawyer for one of the parties, Brett Johnson. The arbitration went well for Mr. Johnson of Fish and…