A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Deputy Katharina Harper claims her firing was in retaliation for her reporting lewd sexual acts between jailers. Although Sheriff Law wrote that her termination was due to unreported ADHD, Harper’s Austin lawyers, Jeff Meyerson and Mark McLean, said that it was well known and never affected her job performance. Two days after reporting an incident between the jailers, she was written up. The lawsuit alleges violations of several laws including the Texas Whistleblower Act, violations of Title VII, and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. See news article.

A civil lawsuit has been filed by The Meyerson Law Firm, P.C. against Baxter Healthcare on behalf of an Austin man who alleges he was subjected to contaminated Heparin. Baxter Healthcare is one of the largest manufacturers of Heparin in the world. Heparin is an “anticoagulant” medication, commonly referred to as “blood thinner.” In January 2008, Baxter issued a recall of certain lots of contaminated Heparin. The recall was issued after a spike in adverse event reports surfaced involving reactions to heparin. The recalled lots contained an ingredient referred to as “crude heparin” which has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The tainted Heparin was distributed to hospitals and patients around the ...

On May 19, 2008, Jeff Meyerson and Chris Cagle testified before the Texas House Committee on Civil Practices regarding what is essentially a loophole in the Texas Dram Shop laws. The Texas Dram Shop Laws were enacted to provide an avenue for compensation against purveyors of alcohol to intoxicated persons who end up hurting others. Meyerson Cagle represented the family of 16 year old Jordan Evans, who was killed after an intoxicated classmate lost control of his pickup truck on a local Farm to Market road in Lampasas, Texas. Meyerson Cagle learned from a convenience store videotape that the intoxicated teenager bought 48 beers without the store clerk even checking his identification. Meyerson Cagle litigated ...

Meyerson Cagle is investigating the sales tactics of Rooms to Go after an employee provided details of a process known in the trade as “slamming.” Customers who have declined on the furniture fabric protection plan may have the plan charged to their final bill without their knowledge. The sales persons of Rooms to Go are typically assigned quotas on the furniture they sell with these plans and will aggressively pitch the product and treatment. If you have purchased furniture from Rooms to Go and suspect you may have been slammed, please contact our office.