by George Christian | Jul 11, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a taxpayer’s petition for review of an Austin Court of Appeals has upheld a Comptroller rule that governs sourcing of a taxpayer’s gross receipts for purposes of apportioning them to Texas for franchise tax purposes. NuStar Energy,...
by George Christian | Jul 9, 2025
Taking up a case arising out of the Business Organizations Code, the Fort Worth [Eighth Division] of the business court has applied Rule 91a to dispose of some claims and stayed the litigation pending arbitration over the plaintiff’s status as a member of the LLC....
by George Christian | Jul 8, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court has ordered the dismissal with prejudice of thousands of nuisance claims against electric transmission and distribution utilities in a massive $10 billion lawsuit arising from Winter Storm Uri. The last defendants left standing in this case—the...
by George Christian | Jul 7, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court has affirmed a Dallas Court of Appeals’ decision holding that the federal Railway Labor Act (RLA)(45 USC § 151a) does not pre-empt a pilots association’s suit against Boeing in a dispute over the pilots’ agreement to fly the 737 MAX aircraft....
by George Christian | Jul 3, 2025
In a per curiam opinion, SCOTX sent the matter back to the court of appeals. Issue one was the dispute over ex-husband’s net worth. After detailing the applicable statutes (§§ 52.006, .007) and TRAP 24.1 and 24.2, the Court noted that the parties agreed that the trial...
by George Christian | Jul 2, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a divided El Paso Court of Appeals’ ruling that a plaintiff in a commercial trucking case presented more than a scintilla of evidence to overcome defendants’ no-evidence summary judgment motion where plaintiff didn’t have any...
by George Christian | Jul 1, 2025
In a case in which we and just about every other organization on the defense side of the bar appeared as amici, the Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Houston [14th] Court of Appeals opinion affirming a $100 million verdict against a commercial trucking company. The...
by George Christian | Jun 30, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a major corporation’s petition for mandamus in a South Texas in which the plaintiff’s lawyer, operating under letters of protection, manufactured grossly inflated medical bills in a fender-bender case. In re Space Exploration...
by George Christian | Jun 30, 2025
In a case closely watched by oil and gas producers and surface owners, the Texas Supreme Court has decided that produced water, the chemical mix of brine and drilling, fracking, and formation fluids that comes out of the well bore along with oil and gas, belongs to...
by George Christian | Jun 27, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court has granted review of a Dallas Court of Appeals decision overturning a jury verdict and remanding for new trial based on the trial court’s spoliation charge. Ron Valk d/b/a Platinum Construction v. Copper Creek Distributors, Inc. and Jose...
