Parker J. Cragg

(La. Dist. – Orleans Parish) — Assisted with securing $125 million judgment following a jury verdict for Huntsman Corporation in its contract dispute with gas supplier, Praxair, Inc.

(Tex.); (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi) – As member of an appellate team, obtained affirmance of unanimous intermediate appeals court ruling that Texas Central is classified as an interurban electric railway company with eminent-domain authority to build the high-speed train between Houston and Dallas—a ruling that reversed the trial court’s judgment, which had held that Texas Central did not qualify as such

(5th Cir.) – As member of an appellate team, obtained affirmance of an $11.6 million judgment in a maritime personal injury case

(5th Cir.) – Obtained a settlement to reopen and dismiss removal proceedings for an asylum-seeker who was persecuted by cartel members in Mexico

(5th Cir). – Obtained remand to the Board of Immigration Appeals from the denial of asylum for an Anglophone Cameroonian who was detained and beaten by Cameroonian authorities for participation in a protest for Anglophone rights

(U.S.); (5th Cir.) – Drafted appellate briefs on behalf of federal prisoner pursuing a Bivens claim involving prison officials’ retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights