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Fort Worth Court of Appeals Allows Lawsuit Between Anti-Vaccine Groups to Proceed
The Fort Worth Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order denying a motion to dismiss a lawsuit between well-known anti-vaccine organizations and their...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses TC Order Denying American Airlines’ Motion to Transfer Venue in Discrimination Case
Plaintiffs filed suit against American Airlines and its employee in Dallas County, alleging discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and breach...
SCOTX Denies Review of El Paso Court of Appeals Decision That One-Fourth Of One-Eighth Equals One-Fourth
Perhaps you recall our discussion of the Texas Supreme Court’s opinion in Van Dyke v. Navigator Grp. (No. 21-0146; delivered February 17, 2023), in which the Court...
TxDOT Prevails in San Antonio Court of Appeals On Inverse Condemnation Claim
The San Antonio Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s order denying TxDOT’s motion for summary judgment on sovereign immunity in a property owner’s claim for...
SCOTX Grants Review in Medicaid Fraud Case
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Dallas-area dentist’s appeal in a qui tam action involving about $538,000 in allegedly fraudulent Medicaid claims....
SCOTX Grants Mandamus in UIM Case
The Texas Supreme Court has granted mandamus vacating a trial court order to quash an insurer’s request for discovery in a UIM case. In re Liberty County Mutual...
Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Pours Out Buzbee Law Firm Attempt to Compel Arbitration in Tortious Interference Case
Handing down a second defeat in the same case, the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has held that the Buzbee Law Firm cannot invoke arbitration after having...
SCOTX Issues Stay in Trucking Case Discovery Dispute
The Texas Supreme Court has granted temporary relief while it considers a petition for writ of mandamus in dispute over a Concho County trial court’s spoliation...
SCOTX Mulling Over Dispute Between City and Management District Over Chapter 311 Agreement
A municipal management district and county that contracted with the City of Arcola to develop an 83-acre tract using tax increment financing under Chapter 311, Tax...
SCOTX Denies Review in Pair of Major Franchise Tax Cases
Over strenuous objections of business taxpayer organizations, the Texas Supreme Court has denied review of a pair of Austin Court of Appeals’ decisions upholding the...
Fort Worth Court of Appeals Allows Lawsuit Between Anti-Vaccine Groups to Proceed
The Fort Worth Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order denying a motion to dismiss a lawsuit between well-known anti-vaccine organizations and their founders. Jonathan Stickland and Jackie Schlegel, Texans for Vaccine Freedom, and Texans for Vaccine Choice,...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses TC Order Denying American Airlines’ Motion to Transfer Venue in Discrimination Case
Plaintiffs filed suit against American Airlines and its employee in Dallas County, alleging discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and breach of contract arising from American’s alleged refusal to allow the family to board a flight because of a...
SCOTX Denies Review of El Paso Court of Appeals Decision That One-Fourth Of One-Eighth Equals One-Fourth
Perhaps you recall our discussion of the Texas Supreme Court’s opinion in Van Dyke v. Navigator Grp. (No. 21-0146; delivered February 17, 2023), in which the Court construed a 1924 deed reserving “one-half of one-eighth” of a mineral interest reserved one-half of the...
TxDOT Prevails in San Antonio Court of Appeals On Inverse Condemnation Claim
The San Antonio Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s order denying TxDOT’s motion for summary judgment on sovereign immunity in a property owner’s claim for inverse condemnation. Texas Department of Transportation v. C-5 Holdings, LLC and Stone Oak Storage...
SCOTX Grants Review in Medicaid Fraud Case
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Dallas-area dentist’s appeal in a qui tam action involving about $538,000 in allegedly fraudulent Medicaid claims. Richard J. Malouf, D.D.S. v. The State of Texas Ex Rels. Dr. Christine Ellis, D.D.S., and Madelayne Castillo...
SCOTX Grants Mandamus in UIM Case
The Texas Supreme Court has granted mandamus vacating a trial court order to quash an insurer’s request for discovery in a UIM case. In re Liberty County Mutual Insurance Company and Marianne Michele Cagle (No. 22-0321; granted November 17, 2023) arose from a 2017 car...
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87th Legislature Shrinks Government Power During Pandemic
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