Houston, TX
Appeals Lawyer at Houston, TX
Practice Areas: Appeals, Litigation, Personal Injury
OUTCOME: Dismissal
In federal court in Los Angeles, California, Mr. Smyser obtained a dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds of an international hotel and time-sharing group in class action consumer fraud case.
OUTCOME:
Mr. Smyser defeated effort of Russian company, a stalking horse for the Russian government, to take discovery in Southern District of New York in aid of the company's effort to capture control of Yukos ... Finance B.V., one of the companies escaping the Russian government's seizure of Yukos Oil and imprisonment in Siberia of its CEO.
OUTCOME:
Mr. Smyser successfully represented the founder of a group of ambulatory surgery centers that he rolled up and sold in a 2010 arbitration with the acquiring company on allegations of breach of represen ... tations and warranties in the sales agreement.
OUTCOME: Settled
Mr. Smyser represented a large institutional client in two separate proceedings, one in arbitration, one in state court, in breach of contract and fraud claims against national health insurers. The cas ... e was successfully settled.
OUTCOME:
Mr. Smyser represented indigenous inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Amazon rain forest in an environmental and pollution case against Chevron in multiple district courts.
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