SCOTX Rules That One-Half of One-Eighth Equals One-Half

In a delightful (that is, unless you’re on the losing side) opinion by Justice Young, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the use of the term “one-half of one-eighth” in a 1924 deed reserving a mineral interest reserved one-half of the interest, not one-sixteenth....

SCOTX Upholds Constitutionality of Settlement Credit

In a case of great significance to the 2003 medical and tort liability reforms, the Texas Supreme Court has upheld the application of the dollar-for-dollar settlement credit and ordered the trial court to award part of the plaintiff’s damages in periodic payments, as...

Red McCombs (1927-2023)

TCJL mourns the passing of Red McCombs earlier this week. Red was a special friend of this organization. For at least the past three decades, he served as the Chair of the TCJL Political Action Committee. In that capacity, Red made an invaluable contribution to the...

SCOTX Upholds Constitutionality of Settlement Credit

Today the Texas Supreme Court issued its ruling in Jesus Virlar, M.D. and GMG Health Systems Associates, P.A., a/k/a and d/b/a Gonzaba Medical Group v. Jo Ann Puente (No. 20-0923), a medical malpractice case in which plaintiffs asserted that the Chapter 33, CPRC,...

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