On September 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier held that the massive BP oil spill four years ago was the direct result of gross negligence or willful misconduct by BP. The ruling is significant as it paves the way for the U.S. government to impose nearly four times the amount of civil fines upon […]
Former Palestine High School star and current Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was charged under Texas child abuse laws for injuries he inflicted to his four-year-old son. The 2012 NFL Most Valuable Player was indicted on September 12 after prosecutors alleged that he violated Texas child abuse statutes by striking the boy with a […]
In a speech to the Hispanic National Bar Association on Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder stated that the thousands of children who have entered the U.S. illegally in recent months should have an immigration attorney to represent their interests in the country’s crowded immigration courts. While Mr. Holder mentioned that, as undocumented immigrants, the children […]
I just recently settled a property insurance case regarding an automobile theft incident. My client’s car had been stolen in May 2013 and when he submitted the claim to his insurance company, they gave him the run-around. They asked him to fill out form after form; submit to Examinations Under Oath; asked him for keys […]
Where to begin, should it be the employees that make this firm run like a well oiled machine, the environment that fills me with a homey sense of content, or the fact that what I’m doing now is a stepping stone for the rest of my career? Everybody works together at Arguello Law Firm to […]
A fatal Texas truck accident occurred Sunday night as a driver was going the wrong way on a major freeway near Houston. The two-vehicle accident occurred Sunday at 11pm, when Efraim Carmona drove his 2009 Dodge Ram 550 pickup eastbound on the westbound lanes of the North Sam Houston Parkway near John Ralston. A report […]
Arlington resident Glenn Hermes filed a medical malpractice lawsuit when he learned that his surgeon removed a healthy kidney from his body, rather than the diseased organ. Mr. Hermes learned the news when his surgeon, Dr. Robert Stroud, told him that he had inadvertently removed the healthy right kidney instead of the left one, for […]
http://www.iowacourts.gov http://muscatinejournal.com http://www.desmoinesregister.com As you can read in the opinion above and news stories following it, the Iowa Supreme Court agreed with our sister firm, Hope Law Firm, PLC, Andrew Hope, and our co-counsel that the District Court erred by granting GPC summary judgment. GPC has a history of polluting Muscatine’s environment. We are […]