by George Christian | Jan 21, 2022
In a split 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has certified a question to the Texas Supreme Court concerning the interpretation of several state licensing and regulatory statutes that may authorize some state officials to...
by George Christian | Jan 21, 2022
The Texas Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Abbott v. Mexican American Legislative Caucus (No. 22-0008) on March 23 at 9 a.m. MALC, Senators Gutierrez and Eckhardt, Rueben Cortez, Jr., and Tejano Democrats filed suit in Travis County challenging the...
by George Christian | Jan 21, 2022
Last September we reported that SCOTX had denied review of an appeal from the El Paso Court of Appeals in which the court rejected an attempt by the Buzbee Law Firm to dismiss an El Paso physician’s defamation lawsuit under the Texas Citizen Participation Act (Ch. 27,...
by George Christian | Jan 20, 2022
The Texas Supreme Court has updated its emergency order to extend remote proceedings in civil and criminal cases through April 1, 2022. It further permits municipal and justice courts to continue modifying or suspending pretrial or trial hearing deadlines through...
by George Christian | Jan 20, 2022
TCJL has filed an amicus curiae brief in Jesus Vilar, M.D. and GMG Health Systems Associates, P.A. a/ka and d/b/a Gonzaba Medical Group v. Jo Ann Puente (No. 20-093), which is currently pending on petition for review before the Texas Supreme Court. The case raises a...
by George Christian | Jan 18, 2022
In August, 2020, TCJL filed an amicus curiae brief in Signature Industrial Services, LLC and Jeffry Ogden v. International Paper Company (No. 20-0396), a contractual damages case that arose from a $775,000 construction contract for the installation of machinery at a...
by George Christian | Jan 18, 2022
As we reported last August, the Dallas Court of Appeals’ ruling in Steward Health Care Sys. LLC v. Saidara, 633 S.W.3d 120 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2021, no pet.) uncovered serious divisions within the Dallas Court of Appeals over how the court handled the majority opinion....
by George Christian | Jan 14, 2022
In a per curiam opinion (In re Oscar Degaberto Flores and Rivas Trucking Specialty, LLC., No. 20-0602), the Texas Supreme Court has “invited” a Dallas trial court to revisit its orders striking §18.001 counteraffidavits from a physician and chiropractor challenging...
by George Christian | Jan 13, 2022
The Austin Court of Appeals has declined a request by Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton (the “state”) to order a Travis County trial court to withdraw a temporary injunction against enforcement of Harris County’s mask mandate, which, with certain exceptions,...
by George Christian | Jan 13, 2022
Harold Kim, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), has published an op-ed in the national legal publication Law360. The op-ed calls for trucking litigation reform in the wake of the rising number of nuclear verdicts against...
