A Bexar County jury awarded $5 million to a female lawyer who had been groped at the courthouse. See my post about that trial here. Allan Manka appealed that verdict to the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio and lost. Now, he has appealed to the Texas Supreme Court. He may have a
Coach Lane Kiffin upset the sports world in a big way a couple weeks ago when he recruited two former NFL players for his LSU football team. Both of the two former NFL players, Dae Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris, had just graduated from their schools and neither had actually played in an NFL game.
The courts are just starting to grapple with the use of Artificial Intelligence in regard to discovery. Discovery is the critical part of every lawsuit in which one party may “discover” the opposing party’s possible evidence. There is caselaw holding that if a party uses open AI in preparing for litigation, then that party will
A former Bexar County deputy settled his religious discrimination claim against Bexar County for $300,000. Luis R. Borges applied to be a deputy at the Bexar County jail. When a deputy came to his house as part of a routine check, the deputy found at Mr. Borges’ home a Santa Muerte altar. Mr. Borges had
It occurs often enough: a key employee, a CEO contracts a serious illness and takes extended leave. The CEO returns to work and then takes intermittent leave for a year or longer. Then the CEO is fired. This is what happened to Benjamin Reed, the CEO for the the Floresville Economic Development Corporation. Mr. Reed
The Texas Fourth Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury award in favor of a Houston attorney, Michelle Acosta. Ms. Acosta accused an opposing attorney, Allan Manka, of extending his arm around Ms. Acosta and groping her bottom. They were opposing attorneys in a family law matter in the Wilson County Courthouse in Floresville, Texas.
To mark Memorial Day, let us recall two area San Antonio heroes. They were both friends of mine. They both died in war zones back in 2005 and 2006 when I was deployed myself.
SSGT Clinton Newman was a fine soldier. He was a bright young man in the 321st Civil Affairs Brigade during my
I have mentioend here a few times how remrkable it is that Donald Trump, as President and as John Q. Citizen, keeps finding lawyers willing to roll the dice with their law licenses. John Eastman is the latest version of the same story. In 2020, John Eastman, then a law school professor, was one of
Everyone likes Artificial Intelligence. A person can access deep information within just a couple minutes. But, in doing so, the person may sacrifice certain rights. In U.S. v. Heppner, 2026 WL 436479 (S.D. N.Y. Feb.17, 2026), Bradley Heppner was charged with securities fraud in Dallas. Like many persons, he then consulted with a lawyer
Arbitration agreements appear in several industries, automobile dealerships, online subscriptions and, of course, in many jobs. The employer will often ask a new employee to sign an arbitration agreement in their first few days of a new job. But, are all those arbitration agreements binding? In Mertens v. Benelux, the Fifth Circuit applied Texas