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Heidi Hafer was a stranger to appellate law when she drafted a nearly 50-page statement last May to Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals. Hafer — who works as a corporate attorney — was trying to challenge a ruling to take a million dollars’ worth of jewelry she says were gifts to settle her family’s debt. To support her case, Hafer cited 31 court decisions, including: Macy’s Texas, Inc. vs. D.A. Adams & Co., a 1979 case out of a Tyler court; Stephens vs. Beard from 1958; Gaston vs. Monroe dated 1896; and a 1996 San Antonio case titled Estate…
North Texas is getting a new headquarters from a new multibillion-dollar company. Somnigroup International – created with Tempur Sealy International recently after acquiring Mattress Firm – will put a new hub in the Dallas area, according to a statement in an email from the company.Somnigroup, which is publicly traded, has a market value of roughly $13 billion and posted sales of about $1.6 billion in the first quarter. The acquisition deal, valued at about $5 billion, wrapped up in February.“With the acquisition of Mattress Firm, we have moved to a holding company structure,” Somnigroup said in the emailed statement. “To…
AUSTIN — Google agreed in principle to a nearly $1.4 billion settlement with Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday.Paxton said the historic sum is the most money any attorney general has recovered from the Big Tech company for enforcing state privacy laws. It follows the state’s $1.4 billion settlement with Meta last July and previous settlements with Google for $700 million and $8 million, respectively. In a statement, Paxton said major technology companies are not above the law.“For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services,” Paxton…
Texas’ measles outbreak that began in Gaines County in January has now expanded to 709 cases, officials said on Friday.The update from the Texas Department of State Health Services does not include additional cases, also connected to the outbreak, that have been reported in New Mexico and Oklahoma.As of Friday, there have been 797 cases reported in the outbreak across the three states.There have been seven measles cases reported in the Dallas-Fort Worth area so far this year, but none have been linked to the larger outbreak.D-FW Public Health AlertsGet the latest public health updates.State officials list six of the…
PAWHUSKA, Okla. — Robert Preston Morris, the founder of Dallas-area megachurch Gateway who is charged with child sex abuse, made an initial court appearance at the Osage County Courthouse on Friday. His preliminary hearing was set for Sept. 4.Related:Robert Morris: What to know about Gateway founder, abuse allegations, falloutMorris was indicted in March on five counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child, according to the office of Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Morris could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the five charges, according to the attorney general’s office.Morris turned himself in on March…
The 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards streamed on Amazon Prime Thursday night, but those watching from home didn’t get to experience the exuberance of 12,000 people bursting into a Janis Joplin jam. The audience in the Star’s state-of-the-art venue reveled in an evening of nostalgia and new blood, with a few stars who would have once looked hopelessly out-of-place at a country music event. Nicole Kidman sat beside her man, Keith Urban. Lionel Richie reminded us he wrote Kenny Rogers’ “Lady.” And there was Jelly Roll with his face tattoos and class-clown goofiness, autographing an actual jar of…
Texas stores are bracing for tariff costs — and shoppers could bear the price increases.Nearly three in four retailers and wholesalers expect higher tariffs to deliver a negative effect this year, according to a survey at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Of those respondents, more than 75% expect to pass on those costs to consumers. The report is another signal of the increasing concerns that new fees on global trade pose for stores and their shoppers. Retailers, even amid the confusion and uncertainty, are trying to navigate a new environment that could upend their operations.“They know that they operate…
(Michael Hogue)Jonathan Borofsky’s sculpture Walking to the Sky has been gone from Dallas for so long few remember it was ever here, towering over Nasher Sculpture Center’s garden as seven fiberglass figures — among them a little girl with pigtails and a man in suit and tie — ascended heavenward along its 100-foot-tall steel pole. Long before there was a deck park, before the area was shrouded by trees and towers, you used to be able to see the sculpture from the highway.And it was a magnificent, majestic work — “a very personal symbol,” Borofsky said Wednesday from his studio…
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into EPIC City, a planned Muslim-centric development near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said.U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Cornyn that the DOJ would open an investigation in response to a request from the Texas Republican last month, according to a statement from the Senator’s office. Cornyn expressed concern that those involved in the planned development could discriminate against Jewish and Christian Texans.Attempts to contact the DOJ were not immediately returned.“Any violations of federal law must be swiftly prosecuted, and I know under (President Donald Trump‘s) administration, they will…
Basketball season is over for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks. But like so many Mavs fans, I’m still deeply frustrated personally by the trade of Luka Doncic. And as a former mayor and a business leader in our city, I know it is going to keep hurting because it came at an enormous long-term cost to Dallas. Cities are more than a collection of roads and buildings; the success of a city is driven by the intangibles … the pride of its people, its competitiveness and its image in greater society. Like all of you, I have…