Plaintiffs in the Fun 5’s lawsuit against GTECH have designated their experts for purposes of trial. Their liability expert is Dr. Ronald Butters who is the former chair of the Linguistics Program and the English Department at Duke University. Dr. Butters is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the New Oxford American Dictionary. You can […]
Attorneys for Fun 5’s players, GTECH, and the Attorney General’s office have reached an agreement to take the deposition of the Texas Lottery Commission’s Executive Director, Gary Grief, on September 25th. A copy of the Notice of Videotaped Deposition can be seen here.>> Notice of Deposition of Gary Grief.
Plaintiffs in the Fun 5’s lottery lawsuit pending in Austin have filed their fifth set of discovery requests on GTECH Corporation. A copy of the discovery requests can be read here.>>Plaintiffs’ Fifth Set of Discovery
Depositions continued on July 30, 2015 in the Fun 5’s fraud lawsuit against GTECH Corporation. Attorneys Richard LaGarde and Manfred Sternberg represented approximately 1,000 Texas consumers at the depositions. The Instant Product Coordinator for the Texas Lottery Commission, Mr. Dale Bowersock, and the Products Manager for the Commission, Mr. Robert Tirloni, were questioned for approximately seven […]
Depositions continued today in the Fun 5’s lawsuit against GTECH Corporation. Attorneys Richard LaGarde and Mary Ellis LaGarde traveled to Lakeland, Florida to take the depositions of Laura Thurston and Penelope Whyte who were the Client Service Representatives responsible for changes made to the Fun 5’s tickets which made the game drastically different from prior Fun […]
Joseph Lapinski, GTECH Corporation’s Texas Account General Manager was deposed yesterday in Austin. Highlights from Mr. Lapinski’s sworn deposition testimony will be shared with Fun 5’s clients in a confidential e-mail update in the coming weeks. Depositions are set for three employees of GTECH Corporation’s Instant Ticket Printing […]
We are reviewing over 9,000 pages of documents in preparation for the sworn deposition testimony we intend to take of employees of GTECH Corporation and the Texas Lottery Commission. In the meantime, a confidential e-mail was sent to all Fun 5’s clients of Manfred Sternberg and Richard LaGarde on July 1, 2015. If you did […]
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LaGarde Law Firm associate, Kristina Hernandez, was recently elected to serve as Corresponding Secretary for the Mexican American Bar Association of Houston (MABAH). We all wish Kristina much success in her role as an officer of the organization.
Congratulations to our paralegal, Amanda Zubire. She recently graduated from the University of Houston, Downtown with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Way to go Amanda!