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Texas Civil Justice League PAC 2022 General Election November 8, 2022 Early Voting October 24 through November 4, 2022 TCJL PAC Releases 2022 General Election Judicial Endorsements September 30, 2022 (Austin): The Texas Civil Justice League Political Action...

In a per curiam opinion without oral argument, the Texas Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the Houston [14th] Court of Appeals in a case involving the scope of the duty of a Good Samaritan who renders assistance to another without compensation. Three Aces...

In an interesting choice-of-law analysis, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a trial court judgment awarding a factoring company statutory punitive damages against a Texas-based insurer. The court ordered a new trial applying substantive...

A dispute over the governing documents of a non-profit organization has raised an interesting question about trial court’s authority to prescribe a remedy that neither of the parties to the dispute requested.   The Nigerian Foundation v. Bedford Umezulike,...

A dispute between the City of Port Arthur and a property owner over the use of a city street to transport heavy loads of pipeline equipment and oil and gas drilling mud has survived a plea to the jurisdiction. City of Port Arthur, Texas and Alberto Elefano, In His...

In a case involving a dispute between an investor/consultant and Delaware-based entities, the Dallas Court of Appeals has upheld a Collin County district court’s denial of the investor’s TCPA motion to dismiss. Douglas D. Box v. Petrotel Oman LLC, Petrotel Oman...

Here a brief update of the status of SB 8-related litigation in state courts. In re Texas Heartbeat Act Litigation (No. 21-0782) The main event in state court is the multidistrict litigation (MDL) pre-trial proceeding presided over by Judge David Peeples. Shortly...

Claims to title to real property by adverse possession are generally so fact intensive that they easily defeat a motion for summary judgment. But in Kothmann v. Menzies (No. 04-21-00451-CV), the San Antonio Court of Appeals found the rare exception. The land at...

7In an important case of first impression, the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has granted a conditional writ of mandamus directing a trial court to vacate its order compelling Ford to produce tens of thousands of documents without actual notice of the documents...

Under a recent decision by the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals, a medical malpractice claim against two physicians and their employer hospital will go forward. Jerry M. Keepers, M.D., Eric Kay-Fung Chan, M.D., and Vista Community Medical Center, d/b/a Surgery...

In another case in which a trial court declined to compel arbitration under a valid agreement, the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has stepped in to enforce the contract. D. Wilson Construction Company v. Filegonia Site Contractors, LLC (No. 13-21-00203-CV) arose...

In a per curiam opinion and without oral argument, the Texas Supreme Court has conditionally granted a writ of mandamus directing the Houston [14th] Court of Appeals to vacate its order quashing the plaintiff’s trial subpoena of a corporate representative residing...