• 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

  • Case
    Texas Gas violated safety rules in fatal gas leak, report says

    The Texas Gas Service violated safety rules in handling a gas leak reported in November at a North Austin house where a gas explosion killed a man in January, according to a report released by the Texas Railroad Commission.

    PublicationAustin American-Statesman
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    July 13, 2012

  • Case
    Chrysler Sued Over Accident That Killed Parents, Injured Kids

    Administrators of the estates of Joshua Bryant Berry and Robin Perlo Berry, who were killed in an accident in West Texas on July 2, 2011, and the guardian of the Houston’s couple’s three children have filed a strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty suit against Chrysler Group LLC and Chrysler Canada Inc.

    PublicationTexas Lawyer
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    May 21, 2012

  • Case
    Chrysler sued in Berry family wreck

    Relatives of a Houston couple killed in a collision that also paralyzed two of their children filed a federal lawsuit against Chrysler, the maker of the family’s minivan, and the other driver involved in the collision.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    May 15, 2012

  • Case
    Family of car crash orphans sue Chrysler for safety flaws: Allege design faults made Berry kids’ accident worse

    The accident in July 2011 was horrific — an SUV veered into the lane of the Berry family minivan near Fort Stockton, resulting in a front-end collision at highway speeds. The crash claimed the lives of Houstonians Robin and Josh Berry and seriously injured their three children, Peter, Aaron and Willa with Peter and Aaron being paralyzed.

    PublicationCulturemap Houston
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    May 14, 2012