by Carol Sims | Sep 17, 2024
TCJL 38th Annual Meeting 2024 Thursday, November 7, 2024 Headliners Club 221 West 6th Street Austin 9:00-11:00 CLE AI Legal And Ethical Pitfalls: What You Need To Know For The 2025 Session CLE Program Course # 174249070, 2 Hours CLE credit including 1 Hour Ethics...
by George Christian | Sep 16, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court will hear a case raising the issue of whether a motion for discovery sanctions alleging that defendants improperly withheld certain evidence constitutes a “legal action” to which the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Ch. 27, CPRC) applies....
by George Christian | Sep 12, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court has accepted a certified question from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals calling for an interpretation of Article I, § 6-a, Texas Constitution, the “religious-service-protections” clause. Gary Perez; Matilde Torres v. City of San Antonio...
by George Christian | Sep 11, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court, with palpable disgust, has reversed a Dallas Court of Appeals decision that upheld a $21.6 million judgment against a defendant who did not receive notice of a Zoom bench trial in his case until the day of trial. Richard Wade v. Luis Valdetaro...
by George Christian | Sep 10, 2024
On August 14, CenterPoint Energy filed a motion with the Multi-District Litigation Panel to transfer four lawsuits related to Hurricane Beryl to an MDL pretrial court. Each case seeks damages arising from the loss of power and alleged deficiencies in the transmission...
by George Christian | Sep 9, 2024
In United States Eventing Association, Inc. v. Pegasus Eventing, LLC, Ellen Doughty-Hume, et. al. (No. 05-23-01287-CV; August 5, 2024), Plaintiff, a horse coach for an eventing company, sued USEA, alleging negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraudulent...
by George Christian | Sep 6, 2024
In a multi-million dollar suit stemming from a concrete manufacturer’s refusal to reimburse its lessor for corrosive damage to lessor’s railcars, the Dallas Court of Appeals has reversed the lower court’s conclusion that the statute of limitations barred lessor’s...
by George Christian | Sep 5, 2024
In a follow-up decision to a 2023 Texas Supreme Court decision declining to grant mandamus compelling a multidistrict litigation court to dismiss them from the case, two private investor groups have prevailed at the Beaumont Court of Appeals. TPC Group Litigation (No....
by George Christian | Sep 4, 2024
The Beaumont Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order dismissing an attorney ad litem’s declaratory judgment action arising from a guardianship proceeding. Laurel Smith v. 2005 Tower LLC (N o. 09-22-00350-CV; August 1, 2024) stemmed from two separate...
by George Christian | Sep 3, 2024
A divided El Paso Court of Appeals has held that Chapter 74, CPRC, applies to a parent’s claim that a hospital negligently performed an autopsy on their deceased newborn. Tenet Hospitals Limited, a Texas Limited Partnership d/b/a The Hospitals of Providence Memorial...
