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 […]
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!
GTECH Corporation, the operator of the Texas Lottery, has disclosed that it may designate the Texas Lottery Commission as a “Responsible Third Party” in the $504 million lawsuit filed against GTECH by nearly 1,000 lottery players in Austin, Texas. The disclosure was contained at the end of GTECH’s recent Response to Request for Disclosures. Background of […]
GTECH Corporation, the operator of the Texas Lottery, has been accused of fraud by nearly 1,000 lottery players. The players, all of whom purchased Texas Lottery Fun 5’s scratch-off tickets, have sued GTECH in state district court in Austin. The instructions printed by GTECH on each Fun 5’s ticket indicated that if the ticket revealed a Money Bag […]
Mary Pat and I attended the American Board of Advocates’ national meeting in Naples, Florida. Our organization is developing new plans to teach students the importance of the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury.
In September of 2013, while driving a city-issued SUV, Houston Chief of Police Charles McClelland struck and injured a pedestrian who was legally crossing in a crosswalk in downtown Houston. The pedestrian, James Harris, spent a year negotiating with the city for a settlement. But Harris says that the city has yet to make a […]
Four hundred and nineteen lottery players joined an existing lawsuit filed by 520 plaintiffs against GTECH Corporation. In their First Amended Petition filed on January 23rd, the lottery players sued to collect their winnings from the controversial Texas Lottery’s Fun 5’s scratch-off game. The suit alleges that GTECH programmed its computers to reject winning tickets […]
The South Texas College of Law/Houston recently announced the launch of the Oil & Gas Law Institute. The goal of the program is to give students comprehensive training in oil and gas law, turning out practice-ready graduates with cutting-edge knowledge of the field. The Institute plans to ensure that graduates are practice-ready by making the […]