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15th Court of Appeals Rejects Breach of Contract, Takings Claims Against MD Anderson Based on Sovereign Immunity
The 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying MD Anderson’s plea to the jurisdiction in a suit alleging that it breached a license agreement...
Business Court Largely Dismisses Lawsuit by Disgruntled Parishioners Against Second Baptist Church of Houston
The Business Court has granted summary judgment to the Second Baptist Church on most claims brought by an association of church members that contested a change in...
15th Court of Appeals Affirms TC Dismissal of State’s Lawsuit Against City of Dallas and State Fair of Texas Over Gun Ban
The 15th Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order granting summary judgment to the City of Dallas and State Fair of Texas in the much ballyhooed (and...
Business Court Rejects Work Product Privilege Assertion in Discovery Dispute
The Business Court has rejected an investment entity’s assertion of the work product privilege for notes taken by one of its representatives of a phone call with a...
15th Court of Appeals Applies Sovereign Immunity to Bar Property Owner’s Suit Seeking Restitution of Property Sold by State to Pay a Subsequently Overturned DTPA Judgment
The 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying the state’s plea to the jurisdiction in a lawsuit seeking restitution for the value of property...
Divided 15th Court Rules That Attorney Immunity Applies to Attorney That Allegedly Provided Business Advice to Corporate Entity
A split 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a Business Court order denying an attorney defendant’s Rule 91a motion to dismiss based on the affirmative defense of...
Business Court Grants Special Appearance to California Resident Who Acted as Defendants’ Agent in Disputed Texas Deal
The Business Court has dismissed a non-resident individual from a Texas business dispute for lack of personal jurisdiction, CWK Management, Inc., for itself and...
Business Court Throws Out Fraud Claims in Suit Between AT&T and Service Provider, But Sends Contract Claims to Jury Trial
The Business Court has dismissed competing fraud claims in a dispute between AT&T and a former service provider over the termination of a lucrative alliance over...
Dallas Court of Appeals Affirms Defense Summary Judgment in Fraudulent Lien Case
The Dallas Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order granting summery judgment to a concrete supplier who allegedly filed a fraudulent lien against a...
El Paso Court of Appeals Affirms TC Denial of Chapter 74 Motion to Dismiss Nursing Home Claim
The El Paso Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order denying § 74.351, CPRC, motions to dismiss health care liability claims against a nursing home and two...
15th Court of Appeals Rejects Breach of Contract, Takings Claims Against MD Anderson Based on Sovereign Immunity
The 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying MD Anderson’s plea to the jurisdiction in a suit alleging that it breached a license agreement with a cancer technology research firm. The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, The...
Business Court Largely Dismisses Lawsuit by Disgruntled Parishioners Against Second Baptist Church of Houston
The Business Court has granted summary judgment to the Second Baptist Church on most claims brought by an association of church members that contested a change in church bylaws regarding the appointment of a new pastor and management of church assets. Jeremiah Counsel...
15th Court of Appeals Affirms TC Dismissal of State’s Lawsuit Against City of Dallas and State Fair of Texas Over Gun Ban
The 15th Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order granting summary judgment to the City of Dallas and State Fair of Texas in the much ballyhooed (and blatantly political) effort of the Office of Attorney General to block the State Fair’s decision to bar guns...
Business Court Rejects Work Product Privilege Assertion in Discovery Dispute
The Business Court has rejected an investment entity’s assertion of the work product privilege for notes taken by one of its representatives of a phone call with a former employee of the entity’s opponent in the litigation. Synergy Thermogen, Inc. and Synergy...
15th Court of Appeals Applies Sovereign Immunity to Bar Property Owner’s Suit Seeking Restitution of Property Sold by State to Pay a Subsequently Overturned DTPA Judgment
The 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying the state’s plea to the jurisdiction in a lawsuit seeking restitution for the value of property sold at a forced sale to pay a judgment for the state in a public enforcement action under the DTPA. That...
Divided 15th Court Rules That Attorney Immunity Applies to Attorney That Allegedly Provided Business Advice to Corporate Entity
A split 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a Business Court order denying an attorney defendant’s Rule 91a motion to dismiss based on the affirmative defense of attorney immunity. In re Frank Jackson (No. 15-25-00235-CV; July 14, 2026) arose from a wrongful...
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