RLB Firm | Cases

The State of Texas Tobacco Litigation

In 1995, Nelson Roach and his former firm, along with four other law firms, was selected by the State of Texas to prosecute the State’s claims against the tobacco industry, seeking to recoup State monies paid to treat smoking-related illnesses. Read More

Life Partners, LLC

RLB partners Keith Langston and Klint Bruno filed a case against Life Partners, Inc. (“LPI”) in March of 2011 on behalf of a class of consumer investors who had purchased viatical and life settlements from LPI. Read More

DataTreasury Patent Litigation

For over a decade, Nelson Roach and his former firm, along with Ben King, represented DataTreasury Corporation in its efforts to hold the largest banks throughout the United States accountable for their infringement of DataTreasury’s seminal and important patents governing electronic check processing and other systems. Read More

$730 Million Truck Accident Verdict

In 2021, Roach Langston Bruno won $730 million in a case arising from a Texas truck accident, one of the largest wrongful-death verdicts in U.S. history. The case was filed by the family of East Texas resident Toni Combest, a 73-year-old great-grandmother who was killed in a collision with an oversize-cargo truck hauling a propeller for a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine. Read More

Freeport-McMoRan Mining Contamination Class Action

Nelson Roach and Keith Langston represented roughly 7,000 residents of the town of Blackwell, Oklahoma in Kay County, Oklahoma, in a class action lawsuit accusing defendants Phelps Dodge Corporation and its parent company, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., of failing to properly address lead, arsenic, and cadmium contamination in the Blackwell area. Read More

Lone Star Steel Litigation

Nelson Roach represented thousands of steel workers at the Lone Star Steel Mill when they began to suffer from breathing problems and cancer. Read More

Red River Army Depot Toxic Tort Litigation

Several years after the Lone Star Steel Toxic Tort Litigation began, workers at the Red River Army Depot in the Northeast Texas area began to suffer from diseases caused by exposure to rubber products in the work place. Read More