• Case
    Medical giants seal rift over money

    Texas Heart Institute drops its suit; Catholic Healthy ups deal

    The Texas Heart Institute will partner with the Catholic hospital chain that bought the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, ending a contractual dispute tied up in a Harris County district court since May.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    September 16, 2013

  • Case
    Pre-K group sues to get on ballot

    Opposition from county judge spurs nonprofit to head to court

    Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said he would not place a 1-cent property tax on the November ballot intended to buoy area preschools, prompting a lawsuit by a local nonprofit that supplied tens of thousands of signatures on a petition asking him to do so.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    August 27, 2013

  • Case
    Sale of St. Luke’s Faces Obstacle

    The Texas Heart Institute, the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System’s most valuate asset, is asking a Harris County court to declare it a free agent, a potentially huge wrinkle in the pending sale of the system to Catholic Health Initiatives.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    May 16, 2013

  • Case
    BP Sued by Vantage for $265 Million Jump in Costs

    Vantage Drilling Co. sued a BP Plc unit over what it claims was a $265.5 million increase in financing costs stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

    PublicationBloomberg NEWS
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Warner V. Hocker.

    Result

    $265 Million

    Year

    April 8, 2013