Cris Feldman of Feldman & Feldman has successfully obtained a restraining order against Mayor Sylvester Turner on behalf of the Houston Professional Firefighters Association (HPFFA). Feldman & Feldman filed a lawsuit alleging a violation of Texas Election Law and the misuse of public funds for political advertising.
Cris Feldman founded Feldman & Feldman with his father, David Feldman, focused on the idea that the public needs to be protected from corruption, injustice, and fraud at the highest levels. Cris helps individuals and business owners protect their rights from those who would infringe upon them. Cris has proudly represented a wide variety of clients, including assault victims, whistleblowers, and oyster fishermen, among others. All of Cris’s clients have come to know him for his dedication and passion to their cause.
After months of complaining about the annoyance, neighbors in Near Northside have sued White Oak Music Hall developers, seeking to permanently stop the construction of an outdoor stage or any future outdoor events at the expansive music-venue playground.
For the first time, we are hearing publicly from HISD’s former internal audit executive. Richard Patton said the district retaliated against him after he reported possible corruption by putting him on leave for five months during an investigation, just to bring him back for several weeks and then fire him by not renewing his contract.
Just over two years ago, Joyce Smith was almost arrested for doing her job. Smith says she was forced over her desk, and then nearly handcuffed and arrested at Harris County Writ Towing and Storage in north Houston, because she wouldn’t release an impounded car to Liberty County Precinct 1 Constable Timothy Allison. A car Allison believed was unlawfully towed.
The parents of a teenage girl are suing two well-known Houston churches, claiming the organizations were negligent by employing a youth pastor who was convicted of sexually soliciting their daughter while working there.
Trial partners, Cris Feldman and Rusty Hardin, win Texas’ largest verdict in 2010. A $2.8 million breach of contract verdict won by attorneys from Houston’s Rusty Hardin & Associates, P.C., against Stewart Title Guaranty Co. has been named as Texas’ top business law verdict of 2010.
Download Rusty Hardin Trial Win Named Texas’ Top 2010 Business Law Verdict (PDF)Ending an 18-year saga, a Harris County civil court jury has ruled that Houston does not owe a California absentee landlord $120,000. The Nov. 18 verdict in Harris County Court at Law No. 4 involved a former apartment complex at 8525 Pitner Road, which the city demolished in late 1992 at public expense.
Originally Published in the Houston Chronicle
Tom DeLay and his supporters have blamed his troubles on former Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Early, who won DeLay’s indictment but retired during the five years it took to bring the former U.S. House majority leader to trial.
Originally Published in Texas Lawyer
For a run-of-the-mill car accident case, Andrade v. Ankur contains an important lesson about one of the many controversial tort-reform provisions the Texas Legislature put into place a year ago with House Bill 4. And, for a change, the case shows how the reforms that were supposed to curb frivolous suits had a negative effect on a defendant.
