Consumer advocate Dawn Nettles filed suit against the Texas Lottery Commission in the 160th Judicial Court in Dallas County.  Ms. Nettles alleged that the TLC knowingly sold misleading and deceptive Fun 5’s scratch-off tickets to her and thousands of other lottery players.  The TLC filed its Plea to the Jurisdiction and asked the court to dismiss Ms. […]

As of today, 733 out of 839 sets of our Fun 5’s clients have responded to GTECH’s First Set of Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents.  Congratulations to all of the clients who did respond.  Congratulations and thanks as well to attorney Kristina Hernandez and paralegals Alex Russell and Amanda Zubire who have worked so […]

Attorneys Richard and Mary LaGarde attended the annual American Board of Trial Advocates [ABOTA] Dinner at the La Colombe D’Or Restaurant in Houston on October  24th.  Mr. LaGarde received a plaque recognizing his service as former President of the organization’s Houston branch.  ABOTA is a nationwide organization of trial attorneys from both sides of the […]

Fun 5’s clients of the Sternberg Law Firm and the LaGarde Law Firm should have received an e-mail on Monday, October 19th from Kristina Hernandez, an attorney at LaGarde Law Firm.  The e-mail was sent to the last e-mail address you had on file with each of the law firms.  The e-mail contains a link […]

The Texas Lottery Commission’s Executive Director, Gary Grief, gave deposition testimony in the Fun 5’s lawsuit on Friday, September 25th. A detailed summary of his testimony will be provided to our Fun 5’s clients in the coming weeks.  However, a question was raised during Mr. Grief’s deposition that is troubling and needs to be immediately […]

Mary Pat and I are in Austin preparing for the depositions of management level employees of GTECH Corporation, the operator of the Texas Lottery as well as the deposition of Gary Grief, the Executive Director of the Texas Lottery.  We are proud to be fighting for the rights of over 1,000 fine Texas consumers.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Fun 5’s lottery lawsuit have reached an agreement with the Attorney General’s office to move forward with the deposition of Gary Grief, the Executive Director of the Texas Lottery Commission.  The deposition is scheduled for September 25th in Austin.  A copy of the deposition notice can be viewed >>here<<.

Attorneys for Plaintiffs in the Fun 5’s lawsuit against GTECH have noticed the depositions of Dan Morales and Tom Stanek for September 24th in Austin.  Mr. Morales is the Instant Ticket Sales Assistant for GTECH while Mr. Stanek is Senior Director for Sales and Marketing for GTECH.  Copies of their deposition notices can be viewed […]

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.