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Last month Bubba Gump Shrimp Company owners Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan realized they would not be able to deliver on their monthly promise of 10,000 pounds of shrimp to the Wok Ann Chu-gumm Seafood Restaurants. Because of this Bubba Gump Shrimp Company joined dozens of other commercial fishermen in a class action lawsuit alleging…

Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan committed Bubba Gump Shrimp Company to deliver 10,000 pounds of shrimp monthly to Wok Ann Chu-gumm Seafood Restaurants across the south. Unfortunately, the aftermath of a recent oil spill is likely to shut down Bubba Gump Shrimp boats all along the Texas Gulf coast. Forrest and Dan are worried they…

New Year’s Resolutions. Like the rest of the country did you personally resolve to get fit, lose weight, drink less, manage your debt better or get organized? What about your business life? In a slight departure from our usual monthly banter, Tilting the Scales offers 6 business resolutions (we resolved to come up with 10…

Johnny Tightlips, a local mobster, is facing time behind bars for various racketeering offenses. During the trial, the New York Daily Planet reported that Tightlips was a “key lieutenant” of Jimmy “The Squid” Calamari, an organized crime figure, and that Tightlips planned to reduce his jail time by cooperating with prosecutors to testify against The…

Hogeye County Sheriff Zukie Bonnett helped upright a Slyme-Yu Haulers sludge truck yesterday. It overturned in front of the local elementary school and several tons of waste solids from the Yellow River wastewater treatment plant spilled onto the children’s playground. The spill was caught on video and is now on TheyTube, an internet video site.…

Sal Minella is president and registered agent of Mother Clucking Tasty Chicken, a large poultry processor in East Texas. One afternoon, while flying the coop for a much needed vacation to the Canary Islands, Sal is met by a process server who presents him with a lawsuit. Sal quickly skims the allegations of the lawsuit…

The newspapers recently reported the story of woman who filed suit seeking a $100,000+ recovery from her landlord and former neighbor for damages allegedly caused by cigarette smoke drifting through the adjoining walls of their upscale townhome.  Sue Yu alleges that construction defects at the Tiffany Townhomes allowed Marilyn Marlboro’s (her neighbor) cigarette smoke to…