UPDATE: Status of Appeal

Hello everyone. We wanted to send out an update on the status of this litigation. If you recall, we brought four claims in the case: (1) a federal takings claim, (2) a state takings claim, (3) a federal substantive due process claim, and (4) a federal procedural due process claim. While…

Class Certification Hearing and Trial Set

We have been able to secure both a date for the hearing to certify a class of all those flooded by the work the State has done on Interstate highway 10, and a date for trial. The class certification hearing will be June 14, 2022, at the United States Courthouse…

Lawsuit Moves Forward with District Judge’s Signed Order

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown has signed an order adopting the magistrate judge’s previously issued opinion denying the state’s motion to dismiss the property owners’ lawsuit. Now that the order is officially signed, plaintiffs can continue to focus on the discovery process and work towards trial currently scheduled for late…

Update on I-10 Flooding Lawsuits

After local residents grouped together and filed two suits in Chambers Court alleging that highway design along Interstate-10 repeatedly caused flooding of private property, the State has moved the cases from Chambers County state court to the federal court in Galveston.. The State moved to dismiss the first case, but…