The Supreme Court has given the appellate team at the Lanier Firm until August 20th to file their Response to GTECH’s Petition for Review. The new deadline falls two days before the Court’s next conference which will be from August 22nd thru 24th. The appellate team is working hard to write the best brief possible […]
Attorney Mark Lanier is our co-counsel and is the lead trial counsel for us in the Texas Lottery Fun 5’s case against GTECH (now known as IGT). Mark obtained a verdict this week for 22 of his clients and their families in a product liability suit against Johnson & Johnson. Mark alleged and showed the […]
The Texas Supreme Court issued a Letter Requesting Response to GTECH’s Petition for Review on July 6th. The letter instructs attorneys for over 1,000 Texas Lottery players to file a response to GTECH’s Petition for Review on or before August 6th. GTECH is asking the Court to review the opinion issued by the Austin Court of Appeals. […]
The operator of the Texas Lottery, GTECH (now known as IGT) has filed its Response to Petition for Review in the Dawn Nettles case pending before the Texas Supreme Court. Ms. Nettles sued GTECH alleging that it was responsible for language on the Fun 5’s scratch-off ticket that misled her into believing that she would win five […]
Attorneys for over 1,000 Texas lottery players filed a waiver of response letter with the Texas Supreme Court this week. The lawsuit was brought by the lottery players against GTECH (now doing business as IGT). GTECH is the contract operator of the Texas Lottery. The players allege that GTECH knowingly made false and misleading representations […]
GTECH filed its long-awaited Petition for Review in the Texas Supreme Court today. GTECH is asking the Supreme Court to reverse the decision by the Austin Court of Appeals which held that GTECH can be sued for fraud. Over 1,000 Texas Lottery players allege that GTECH chose to use language on the Fun 5’s scratch-off tickets that […]
The Texas Supreme Court has issued a Response Request to GTECH (now doing business as IGT) in the Nettles v. GTECH case. What does this mean? It means that at least one Justice wanted to see a response from GTECH before deciding whether to grant or deny Ms. Nettles’ Petition for Review. As a reminder, Ms. Nettles […]
A lot of our clients are deer hunters. We recently received a report from Safety Research and Strategies that warns about injuries and deaths associated with defective deer stands. We wanted to share this report with our clients and friends to urge them to be safe while hunting and to warn them about some of […]
We have received a number of calls from business people who feel that their business partners have cheated them, have taken business opportunities belonging to the business, or have stolen partnership money. For information about the legal rights and duties you might have as a business partner, view our Partnership Disputes page on this website.
GTECH filed a Motion for Second Extension of Time to file its Petition for Review in the Fun 5’s lottery lawsuit. As grounds for its motion, GTECH’s appellate lawyers told the Supreme Court that they have scheduling conflicts including other deadlines for Petitions for Review and other appellate briefs that they have recently filed and are due […]