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TCJL Tracking Report 1-17-2025
TCJL Tracked Bill List January 17, 2025 TCJL Priority Bills SB 779 by Middleton (R-Galveston): Adds Chapter 100C, Civil Practice & Remedies Code,...
Texas Senate Committee Assignments
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SCOTX Reverses Amarillo Court of Appeals in Shut-In Royalty Dispute
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed an Amarillo Court of Appeals decision holding that an oil and gas lessee’s notation on a check reset the deadline for payment of...
SCOTX Rules for Texas Tech in Age-Discrimination Case
The Texas Supreme Court has held that the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso did not discriminate against an employee who was passed over for a new...
SCOTX Remands 20-Year-Old Wrangle over Fraud, Legal Malpractice Claims for Third Trial
In a case that increasingly resembles Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the Texas Supreme Court has remanded a two-decades-old legal malpractice case for a third go around in...
SCOTX Rules That Human Trafficking Case Against Facebook Does Not Share Commonality with Other Jane Doe Cases in MDL
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the multidistrict litigation panel denying Facebook’s (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) motion to remand a lawsuit...
Concurring Opinion in Fraud Case Questions Whether Fraud Without Aggravating Circumstances Justifies Punitive Damages
In an opinion concurring with the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals’ denial of en banc review in a fraud case, newly appointed Justice David Gunn, formerly a...
TCJL Tracking Report 1-10-2025
TCJL Tracked Bill List January 10, 2025 New bills since the last report are in RED New Causes of Action Tort Liability Construction Law Freedom to Contract Health...
SCOTX Reverses Course, Grants Mandamus in Discovery Dispute Involving Child Pornography
As we reported nearly a year ago, a deeply divided Texas Supreme Court lifted an emergency stay and denied the relator’s petition for a writ of mandamus to block a...
SCOTX Rules for Producer in Dispute Over Calculation of Non-Participating Royalty Interest
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Corpus Christi Court of Appeals decision holding that the owner of a non-participating royalty interest did not convert his...
TCJL Tracking Report 1-17-2025
TCJL Tracked Bill List January 17, 2025 TCJL Priority Bills SB 779 by Middleton (R-Galveston): Adds Chapter 100C, Civil Practice & Remedies Code, to limit actions for damages or other relief based on common law public nuisance, whether asserted as a...
Texas Senate Committee Assignments
Patrick releases Texas Senate committee assignments
SCOTX Reverses Amarillo Court of Appeals in Shut-In Royalty Dispute
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed an Amarillo Court of Appeals decision holding that an oil and gas lessee’s notation on a check reset the deadline for payment of a shut-in royalty that was made prior to the annual deadline established by the lease. Scout Energy...
SCOTX Rules for Texas Tech in Age-Discrimination Case
The Texas Supreme Court has held that the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso did not discriminate against an employee who was passed over for a new chief of staff position for a younger candidate. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso...
SCOTX Remands 20-Year-Old Wrangle over Fraud, Legal Malpractice Claims for Third Trial
In a case that increasingly resembles Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the Texas Supreme Court has remanded a two-decades-old legal malpractice case for a third go around in the trial court. Henry S. Miller Commercial Company v. Newsom, Terry & Newsom, LLP and Steven K....
SCOTX Rules That Human Trafficking Case Against Facebook Does Not Share Commonality with Other Jane Doe Cases in MDL
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the multidistrict litigation panel denying Facebook’s (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) motion to remand a lawsuit against it to an existing MDL involving claims arising from human trafficking. In re Jane Doe Cases (No....
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