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State of Texas v. James Anderson

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with murder. James Anderson was accused of killing his wife. James Anderson was charged in 2023 with murdering his wife, Victoria Anderson, in Kingwood. He was arrested by the Houston Police Department after a standoff. At the time of today’s court appearance, Anderson was out on a $300,000 bond and was in court to mak... More...

(12-05-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. John Doe

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charge with eluding police officers after it was found that he had an open warrant for his arrest. John Do sped away rather than be taken into custody. He crashed his vehicle and tried to run away on foot and started shooting at the officers.... More...

(12-05-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Moctar Ahmadou Gouroudja Ahmadou

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm as an alien admitted under a nonimmigrant visa in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B). Moctar Ahmadou claimed his conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm as an alien admitted under a nonimmigrant visa in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B). He asserts that the federally license... More...

(12-05-2025 - tx)
Tisha Palms v. Texas Children's Hospital, Inc.

Houston, Texas employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an employment discrimination theory.... More...

(12-03-2025 - TX)
Stephen Benavides v. Harris County, Texas

Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.c. 1983. On December 26, 2019, at approximately 7:19 p.m., Deputy Jose Nunez of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting a suspected in-progress home invasion. The caller, Sandra Garibay, informed the dispatcher that she had locked herself and... More...

(11-24-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Champagne Smith

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree felony aggravated assault. ... More...

(11-20-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Octavio Garcia Cruz

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with murder. Octavio Garcia Cruz, 48, is charged with murder in the 184th Criminal District Court. The victim was Angel Chavira, 35.... More...

(11-14-2025 - TX)
Kelli Smith v. United States Parcel Service, Inc.

Houston, Texas, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on job discrimination theories. Kelli Smith sued her former employer, United Parcel Service, Incorporated (UPS), under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) alleging race, gender, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment. Under McDonnell Douglas, a plaintiff bear... More...

(11-14-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Michael Richardson and Gayle Bell

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyers representing the Defendants charged with abuse of corpses. Michael Richardson, 72, and Gayle Bell, 63, — the co-owners of Richardson Mortuary were charged with abuse of a corpse. More than 100 bodies, some cremated and some awaiting embalmment were found on the property.... More...

(11-04-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Alex Ahmed Kassem

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (prohibiting attempt and conspiracy) and 841(a)(1) (prohibiting possession with intent to distribute), (b)(1)(a) (setting penalty); and attempted money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. No. 2... More...

(11-03-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Steven Lee Smith

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.... More...

(11-03-2025 - TX)
Everett De'Andre Arnold, et al. v. Barbers Hill Independent School District, et al.

Houston, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theories. BHISD maintains a Student Code of Conduct, setting stand- ards for behavior and discipline within the district. Hair-length restrictions have long existed in the Student Code of Conduct, limiting the ways male students could wear their hair. Halfway through the 2019–2020... More...

(11-03-2025 - TX)
United States of America ex rel. Diedra Gentry v. Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Pearland, L.L.C.

Houston, Texas commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a qui tam whistleblower case.... More...

(11-03-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Zaikiya Duncan

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated assault of a family member.... More...

(10-15-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Derrick Van Flowers

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a sex offender. Derrick Van Flowers, 44, was taken into custody in Houston, Texas, after a traffic stop. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Special Agents from Houston assigned to the Texas Anti-Gang (TAG) Violent Crimes Squad used investigative leads to locate ... More...

(10-14-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Juan Alaniz

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm and/or ammunition while a convicted felon. ... More...

(10-04-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Francisco Javier Olvera-Galvan

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of a deported alien.... More...

(10-03-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Edward Constantinescu, et al.

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud for their involvement in a “pump and dump” scheme. The superseding indictment alleged that defendants induced their social-media followers to purchase securities through posts misrepresenting their trading positions and the potential price of securities, artificially inflating ... More...

(10-02-2025 - TX)
Janice Hughes Barners, et al. v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al.

Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a excessive force wrongful death civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Ashtian Barners was shot and killed by Officer Roberto Felix, Jr. during a traffic stop. Barnes’s parents sued Felix and Harris County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.5 The district court granted summary judgment on th... More...

(09-24-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Louis Armando Rojas

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Louis Armando Rojas, 38, is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend's husband in West Harris County after a domestic dispute in 2011. Rojas was charged on Jan 1, 2012, with murder – a first-degree felony. In 2017, law enforcement became aware that Rojas was promoting himself on YouTube as... More...

(09-19-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Celia Ignacia Esquivel-Bataz

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry after deportation following conviction of a felony offense. Esquivel-Bataz, a citizen and national of Mexico, was convicted in 2011 of making a false statement to obtain credit. She was subsequently deported in May 2012. In April 2025, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ... More...

(09-16-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Omar Marzouk

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Omar Marzouk, 38, has been charged with murder in the death of Jimmy Arevalo, ... More...

(09-15-2025 - TX)
Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Eric Guerrero

Houston, Texas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for his involvement in the attempted robbery and murder of a check cashing store employee and a policeman seeking a certificate of appealability.... More...

(09-15-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Luis Pablo Estolano-Velasquez. Adan Jaimes-Gomez, Jose Alvarado-Aguirr, Franklin Geovanny Escobar-Matias, Jose Mauricio, Jose Mauricio

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Convicted murderer among 306 people charged in border security-related cases during second week of September ... More...

(09-12-2025 - TX)
Abraham Watkins Nicholas Agosto Aziz & Strogner v. Edward Festeryga

Houston, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in tort theories. Abraham Watkins Nichols Agosto Aziz & Stogner, a Texas law firm, sued its former associate, Edward Festeryga, in Texas state court for various state-law torts. The firm secured a temporary restraining order and moved for expedited discovery to obtain communications and documents in Festeryga’s posses... More...

(09-11-2025 - TX)