A Harris County judge excoriated former law partners Anthony Pusch and Chi-Hung David Nguyen in a ruling on Friday, the latest development in the long-running legal back-and-forth between the former billboard-famous personal injury duo.

In a brief submitted late Friday summarizing her findings in the trial thus far, Harris County District Judge Christine Weems wrote that both Pusch and Nguyen had run afoul of the court’s rulings. And in an extraordinary move, Weems wrote that she had referred both Nguyen and his brother John to the Harris County District Attorney’s office for investigation.

Pusch and his attorneys have accused Nguyen and his brother of perjury. They claimed that Nguyen gave false testimony in court in response to questions about how he financed the purchase of property along the Gulf Freeway that he allegedly intended to use as a competing legal firm after leaving Pusch & Nguyen, now known as Pusch & Wynne.

Pusch eventually admitted in court last month that he had, in fact, lied to the court when he said he had received the money from family. In fact, he had gotten the money from a former client and concealed the transaction from Pusch. Nguyen and his brother attempted to retract their testimony and chalked it up to an error, a claim that Weems didn’t buy. 

“Perjury is not an error in judgment,” Weems wrote. “Defendants Chi-Hung David Nguyen and Chi-Hung John Nguyen offered false testimony consciously with the improper motive of deceiving the Court and the parties.”

Weems, citing her authority as a judge to sanction lawyers, said in her briefing that she had referred Nguyen and his brother to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office based on his false testimony. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office told Chron it does not comment on whether or not a person is under investigation.

Weems also referred Nguyen to the State Bar of Texas for investigation, writing that he had violated rules for Texas lawyers that require attorneys to provide “candor to the Court.” According to the State Bar of Texas’ website, lawyers who are found to have broken the state legal code of conduct can be reprimanded by the state bar, have their law license suspended or be disbarred altogether based on the severity of the offense. 

Nguyen’s false testimony and his decision to knowingly do so, Weems wrote, necessitated sanctions. 

“Of particular concern to the Court is attorney Chi-Hung David Nguyen’s intentional decision to offer false testimony,” Weems wrote.

Weems ordered Nguyen to complete 20 hours of Continued Legal Education in legal ethics, as well as 50 hours of pro bono legal services. Both Nguyen and his brother will also have to pay sanctions fines. 

But while Weems was alarmed by Nguyen’s behavior, she did not hold back her acerbic language for Pusch either. Pusch and the plaintiffs, Weems wrote, failed to pay Nguyen his part of the firm’s earnings from the past year as she had ordered in a temporary injunction granted last October. Not only had Pusch not paid Nguyen his portion, Weems found, his decision not to “comply with the distribution and accounting provisions … was willful and intentional.”

Weems had also, among several other orders, required both Pusch and Nguyen to refrain from using the trademarks “WE PUSH YOU WIN,” “AVOCADO AT LAW” and “AVOCADOS AT LAW” while the suit played out. Pusch, according to court documents, “posted on social media about the May 2026 hearings with a photo of Plaintiff Anthony Pusch and his current law partner Robert Wynne with the words ‘We Push. You Win’ plastered across it.”

Pusch “publicly flaunted trademarked slogans they were expressly ordered not to use,” Weems wrote. Pusch and his attorneys’ behavior, Weems said, “is an abuse of the judicial process.”

Pusch was ordered to complete 20 hours of continued legal education and 50 hours of pro bono legal services, as well as pay sanctions fines. Weems required both Pusch and Nguyen to schedule a hearing on attorneys’ fees before July 31.