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J. Jordan grants in part the former employee's motion for attorney fees and costs after the jury found the employer failed to pay her overtime and retaliated against her for complaining. The former employee requested $152,955 in attorney fees, but she is awarded only $86,164 based on her "limited degree of success" in establishing harm.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Jordan, Filed On: July 11, 2024, Case #: 4:21cv327, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Attorney Fees, Labor
J. Kernodle sides with Texas and Montana, granting a stay of a federal rule that would require healthcare providers and states to perform and pay for gender-transition surgeries or other gender-affirming care to avoid losing federal funding. The rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act, and the states would likely be irreparably harmed if the rule is not stayed because they would lose "billions of dollars in federal funding for their Medicaid and CHIP programs."
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Kernodle, Filed On: July 3, 2024, Case #: 6:24cv211, NOS: Administrative Procedure Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision - Other Suits, Categories: Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Care
J. Jordan grants the shoe care product company's motion for a preliminary injunction in a trademark infringement suit against individuals and business entities that sell allegedly infringing products on Amazon and other online marketplaces. The company has met the requirements for an injunction, including a showing that it will likely succeed on the merits of its claims and that it will suffer irreparable harm without an injunction.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Jordan, Filed On: July 3, 2024, Case #: 4:24cv334, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Trademark, Injunction
J. Jordan grants Texas a preliminary injunction to halt the Department of Labor's implementation of a new rule that would raise the salary threshold for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employee exemption from overtime pay under Fair Labor Standards Act. Texas will likely succeed on its claim that the new rule "impermissibly exceeds the Department's authority to define and delimit the EAP Exemption." The language in the exemption "turns on consideration of an employee's duties, not her salary."
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Jordan, Filed On: June 28, 2024, Case #: 4:24cv499, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Administrative Law, Employment, Labor
J. Jordan adopts the report of the special master and denies-in-part Google's motion for a protective order in the states' anti-trust suit involving alleged anticompetitive conduct regarding online display advertising. The states may depose Google's executives, co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai, subject to time limits despite their status as "apex" executives since they have unique and personal knowledge about the issues in this case.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Jordan, Filed On: June 21, 2024, Case #: 4:20cv957, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: Antitrust, Discovery
J. Mazzant grants summary judgment to the city police officers in the civil rights suit brought by school board meeting attendees who wanted certain books having sexually explicit material to be banned from school libraries. The attendees claimed that only those who opposed the books in question were kicked out of the meeting, while those attendees who supported the books were not. The officers are entitled to qualified immunity on the First Amendment and conspiracy claims since their actions were "objectively reasonable."
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Mazzant, Filed On: June 12, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv416, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Immunity
J. Mazzant denies in part qualified immunity to the school board president and security director in the civil rights suit brought by school board meeting attendees who wanted certain books having sexually explicit material to be banned from school libraries. The attendees claimed that only those who opposed the books in question were kicked out of the meeting or not allowed to speak, while those attendees who supported the books were treated more favorably. There are genuine issues of material fact as to three attendees' Section 1983 claims and as to whether the school board parties "selectively enforced the rules of decorum against" those attendees.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Mazzant, Filed On: June 12, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv416, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, Immunity
J. Jordan denies summary judgment to the former employee and dismisses her counterclaims against the title company alleging violations of the Stored Communications Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The counterclaims, which stem from the company accessing her Gmail and LinkedIn accounts on her laptop after her departure, fail since the emails and messages "were not in electronic storage" and she did not meet the $5,000 threshold in losses to have a claim under the CFAA.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Jordan, Filed On: June 7, 2024, Case #: 4:21cv147, NOS: Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, Employment, Trade Secrets
J. Mazzant grants in part a counsel���s request that the court enforce protective orders to preclude the production of certain documents to the financial corporations in this dispute relating to allegations the corporations violated various laws in the residential mortgage industry. In camera review of certain documents is necessary to prevent the disclosure of protected information.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Mazzant, Filed On: May 28, 2024, Case #: 4:12cv461, NOS: False Claims Act - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Discovery