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Complex Litigation

 

Sheehan has 35 years of litigation experience. His litigation practice has spanned such diverse areas as health care fraud litigation, commercial and transactional litigation, debtor/creditor disputes, disputes in the oil and gas industry, land use disputes, products liability litigation, and sexual harassment defense.

 

• Oil & Gas Litigation – Sheehan has assisted producers, service companies and royalty owners in litigation concerning well service agreements, leaseholds, assignments/farm-outs/drilling agreements, pipelines, blowout wells, and leasehold drainage disputes.

 

• Toxic Tort Litigation – Sheehan has acted as defensive counsel in various toxic tort suits, successfully resolving such favorably for his clients.

 

• Health Care Fraud Litigation – Sheehan acted on behalf of a national hospital organization in connection with complex health care fraud litigation throughout the United States brought by former patients and/or patients’ families.

 

• Failed Bank Litigation – acting on behalf of various banking institutions, FDIC and RTC Sheehan has litigated various matters for financial institutions, which acquired assets of failed institutions throughout Texas.

 

• Product Liability – Sheehan successfully handled one of the earliest “huffing” cases brought in Texas, representing a national manufacturer of leather cleaning products in a wrongful death case stemming from deceased "huffing" leather cleaning spray.

 

• Eminent Domain – Sheehan successfully represented a Texas municipality in litigation over the city’s use of its eminent domain powers to acquire properties for commercial purposes to allow for expansion of an existing shopping mall, and oil & gas pipeline companies in acquiring lands for pipelines.

 

• Home Owners Association Litigation - Sheehan has successfully represented homeowners in disputes with their HOA, one of which he achieved a successful appeal before the Texas Supreme Court.

 

• Sexual Harassment Claims – acting on behalf of a large global telecommunications corporation defended and successfully resolved  significant sexual harassment claims.

 

• Appellate Matters – Sheehan has handled appeals in the United States Supreme Court, The Texas Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and various Texas Courts of Appeals.

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