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(1) A prominent Texas lawyer, Rollins handled major cases for Attorney GeneralWill Wilson, for the City of Houston, where he resided for more than four decades, and in private practice.
(3) Rollins represented the Houston Police Department in numerous suits and prevailed in each legal encounter on behalf of individual police officers.
(4) Rollins was instrumental in defeating a lawsuit regarding cost overruns and delays in the construction of Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
Joseph Guy Rollins, Jr. (April 21, 1918 – November 2, 2008), known as Joe Rollins, was a prominent Texasattorney and civic leader, perhaps best known for his successful fight against a lawsuit[1] in regard to cost overruns and construction delays in the establishment of what became Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
The plaintiff, R.F. Ball Construction Company of San Antonio, protested that Houston municipal officials, the defendants represented by then assistant city attorney Rollins, made four hundred design changes for the airport terminals and caused the firm and its subcontractors serious losses. The airport opened in June 1969, more than two years behind schedule. Ball Construction maintained that the city-mandated changes increased construction costs from approximately $17 million to $28 million. The trial court ruled in favor of Ball Construction, but the judge reduced the requested $8 million in damages to $5.1 million. The 14th Court of Appeals unanimously reversed that ruling, and the Texas Supreme Court concurred with the appeals court.[2]
During World War II, Rollins enlisted in the United States Navy even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. From 1943–1945, he was the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Curlew AM 69. In October 1943, he directed a group of minesweepers that successfully cleared the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal of German submarine-laid naval mines which had shut down the waterway for two critical weeks of the war. Rollins received a Letter of Commendation for his "fine seamanship under difficult conditions". After the war, Rollins was active in the Naval Reserve for eleven years and was commanding officer of the Reserve Electronics Unit in Sherman in north Texas.[3]
In 1961 he moved to Houston to join the staff of the city attorney where he became senior assistant attorney and chief of the litigation section. He was proud that he "made law" in the City of Houston v. Harris County Eastex Oaks Water and Sewer District. [5] He represented Houston police in numerous suits, many of a civil rights nature, against the department. Not once did Rollins lose a case representing a police officer. The officers accordingly awarded him a plaque of appreciation for his work.[3]
On retirement from the city of Houston in 1979, Rollins joined the law firm of Olson & Olson, from which he retired in 1997. He became a volunteer instructor in the English-as-a-second-language program of Memorial Assistance Ministries. He also tutored in the bilingual education program at Spring Branch Elementary School. Rollins was fluent in Spanish, and passable in French, and German. He was a scholar of languages and history, particularly the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Europe.[2]
Later years
In 2004 Rollins and his wife, the Dallas native, Sarah-Finch Maiden Rollins, known as Skippy Rollins, moved to Boulder, Colorado. He died there four years later. In addition to his wife of sixty-four years, he was survived by a son, Guy Rollins (born March 15, 1946) of Wimberley in Hays County near San Marcos, Texas; two daughters, Sally Sodal of Boulder and Edna Gary Thomas of Yantis, Texas. A memorial service was held on November 15 at his church of membership, St. Paul's United Methodist Church, in Boulder. While in Houston, the Rollinses had been active in the Chapelwood United Methodist Church.[3]
↑ Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st District) February 20,1969
↑ Letter from American Mensa Selection Agency, 15 December 1974
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