A Texas Court of Appeals has affirmed $177,000 in sanctions against William Brewer III after a trial court ruled the prominent Dallas attorney engaged in abusive litigation tactic by commissioning a pretrial telephone survey meant to improperly influence a jury pool in a wrongful death case.

In 2016, 72nd District Court Judge Ruben Reyes of Lubbock found that Brewer was responsible for conducting a poll over issues in Ken Teel v. Titeflex, a case in which Brewer was defending Titeflex, a company accused of manufacturing faulty flexible gas tubing that allegedly caused a deadly house fire.

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