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Suit filed over toxic release at BP
refinery.jpg GALVESTON - A local man who was working in the vicinity of BP's Texas City facility at the time of an alleged toxic release last year is pursuing legal action. Read More »
View ArticleMc-OO attorney withdraws from wrongful termination oil cleanup suit
The attorney for defendant Mc-OO recently withdrew as counsel from a suit filed by three gulf oil cleanup workers claiming they were fired for refusing to disobey federal guidelines. As previously...
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Female worker sues employer after sex offender is hired
constitutionquillpen.jpg A Dallas company is being sued for allowing a hostile work environment after the company hired a registered sex offender who allegedly sexually harassed another employee. Read...
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Funeral home accused of ashes mix up denied continuance
jacksonkoetting.jpg Jackson GALVESTON - A local judge has denied a funeral home's request to reset an August trial in a case over the incorrect disposition of a man's ashes. Read More »
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Stafford residents sue Mo City over metal finishing business’s activities
HOUSTON – A group of Stafford residents has taken the city of Missouri City to court over the activities of a business adjacent to their neighborhood, recent court documents say. Attorney Paul H....
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Recent emission event prompts Tiki Island residents to sue Marathon
BuzbeeGALVESTON – Tiki Island locals Russell Craig Hudeck and Renea Diamond are pursuing legal action against Marathon Petroleum Co. LP over “an eleven-hour long” emission event earlier this month....
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Lawsuits claim pipeline activities in Galveston Bay are damaging oyster beds
GALVESTON – A Dallas attorney has filed a pair of lawsuits against Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas LLC, Orion Construction LP, Coates Field Services Inc. and Project Consulting Services Inc., alleging the...
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League City woman attributes husband’s myelodysplasia death to benzene...
GALVESTON – A League City woman is suing BP and a host of other companies in response to her husband’s 2012 death from alleged benzene exposure. Sarah Follett’s lawsuit, filed Aug. 2 in Galveston...
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Additional plaintiffs, defendants join Marathon emission suit
GALVESTON – A lawsuit blaming Marathon Petroleum LP for “an 11-hour long” emission event in June was amended. The suit, which was filed a week after the alleged June 7 event, was revised to include...
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‘Test’ trial for BP toxic release suit underway
GALVESTON – The first week of the “test” trial into the 2010 BP toxic release is in the books. With attorney Tony G. Buzbee of The Buzbee Law Firm in Houston serving as their lead counsel, many...
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Woman tells jury about ‘peculiar, sweet’ smell from Texas City refinery
GALVESTON – A woman who is among the many Galveston County residents claiming to have been affected by a 2010 toxic event at the now-former BP Texas City refinery took the stand Sept. 16. For nearly...
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Galveston judge rejects attorney’s motion to have counterpart on defense...
GALVESTON – BP’s head counsel can continue representing the petrochemical company in the trial arising from a 2010 toxic event at a Texas City refinery, a local state district judge ruled. Galveston...
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Defense anticipates chance to present witnesses as BP toxic release trial...
GALVESTON – As the trial into a 2010 BP emission which allegedly lasted six weeks moves toward the one-month mark, the petrochemical company’s legal team anticipates its turn to call in its designated...
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Epidemiologist testifies in BP emissions trial
GALVESTON – The legal team representing local residents who claim to have been exposed to toxic chemicals at BP’s Texas City refinery brought in a physician to testify Wednesday afternoon. Jurors...
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BP toxic release trial enters fourth week, defense witnesses testify
GALVESTON – Jurors in a trial focusing on an alleged 2010 toxic release at BP’s former refinery in Texas City listened to a chemical engineer from Missouri on Oct. 2. Dr. Joseph D. Smith, who teaches...
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Toxicologist: Benzene levels from 2010 BP emission ‘not toxic’
GALVESTON – A toxicologist testifying on behalf of BP said Oct. 3 that the exposure levels from a release of chemicals at the Texas City refinery were not lethal or high enough to jeopardize people’s...
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‘If the pieces do not fit, you must acquit’: Both sides in BP emission trial...
GALVESTON – The trial into an alleged toxic event in 2010 at what was then BP’s Texas City refinery could be over any day now. After hearing closing arguments from plaintiffs’ attorney Tony Buzbee and...
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Jurors side with BP in toxic release trial
GALVESTON – The jury in the trial focusing on a 2010 toxic release at what was then BP’s Texas City refinery reached a verdict shortly before noon Oct. 10 after two full days of deliberation. They did...
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Recent Marathon toxic release triggers another lawsuit
GALVESTON – An alleged emission event at Marathon Petroleum Co. LP’s Texas City refinery over the summer has triggered another lawsuit, recent court papers say. Nemesis Bluewater Inc. and local...
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Local woman files suit against BP over chemical release in Texas City
GALVESTON – BP Products North America Inc. is named in a lawsuit stemming from an alleged release of toxic chemicals in late 2011 at its Texas City refinery. In court documents filed Nov. 15 in...
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