Ronnie Greene

May 31, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | James Nani |Ronnie Greene

HOUSTON – In Houston’s close-knit bankruptcy court, judges David R. Jones and Marvin Isgur often stood in lockstep. Former law partners, they transformed Houston from a backwater into a boomtown for high-dollar bankruptcies. Isgur boasted, with a father’s pride, of how Jones revolutionized the Southern District of Texas’ bankruptcy system.

Apr 30, 2024 | news.bloombergtax.com | James Nani |Ronnie Greene

At “Meatfest,” the judge and the lawyers were all smiles. Judge David R. Jones, who had worked for years to make Houston a destination for high-dollar bankruptcy litigation, can be seen in an October 2022 photo huddled at the barbecue with local attorneys who brought cases before him and also formed a cooking crew. Among them is Elizabeth Freeman, who had known Jones for years, clerked for him—and had an intimate relationship with him.

Jan 22, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Ronnie Greene |Gary Harki

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – They are among the signature horrors of the civil rights era. A Black mother of 10 gunned down by a carful of White men amid racial unrest in Jacksonville in 1964. Two Black Louisiana deputies hunted like prey a year later by Klan members furious the force had crossed the color line. A Black man who so enraged the local sheriff by venturing into the “White section” of the Mississippi jail in 1958 that the sheriff beat him to death with a blackjack.

Dec 6, 2023 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Andrew Wallender |Ronnie Greene

The nation’s top food safety regulator has for decades left it up to manufacturers to decide whether their food ingredients are safe, sometimes with tragic results, a Bloomberg Law investigation reveals. Last year, nearly 400 people across the US fell ill after eating a lentil and leek meal shipped by the plant-based food company Daily Harvest. Some 133 people were hospitalized, and several had to have their gallbladders removed, government records show.

Dec 6, 2023 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Andrew Wallender |Ronnie Greene

The nation’s top food safety regulator has for decades left it up to manufacturers to decide whether their food ingredients are safe, sometimes with tragic results, a Bloomberg Law investigation reveals. Last year, nearly 400 people across the US fell ill after eating a lentil and leek meal shipped by the plant-based food company Daily Harvest. Some 133 people were hospitalized, and several had to have their gallbladders removed, government records show.