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VoteTexas.gov Where to vote? Am I registered? Voter ID? What's on the ballot?   Proposition Number 1 Rodeo raffles HJR 143 proposes a constitutional amendment expanding the circumstances in which a professional sports team charitable foundation may conduct...

This afternoon a statement opposing SB 51 and signed by a large group of business and health care organizations was distributed to the Texas Senate. A similar statement will soon be going out to members of the Texas House with respect to HB 155 and similar...

This afternoon TCJL submitted written testimony to the Senate State Affairs Committee opposing SB 51. Like HB 155, SB 51 mandates that an employer allow an employee to claim an exemption from a vaccine mandate "based on a medical condition or reasons of conscience,...

At yesterday's lengthy hearing before the House State Affairs Committee, several allied business and health care groups testified in opposition to HB 155. These groups include Texans for Lawsuit Reform, Texas Association of Manufacturers, Texas Hospital...

This afternoon the House State Affairs Committee is holding a public hearing on HB 155. This bill imposes liability for compensatory and punitive damages (as well as costs and attorney's fees) for complying with a federal vaccine mandate that does not allow an...

The past two legislative sessions have shown that the Legislature seems increasingly open to giving preferences to certain types of employees and to loosening some of the controls that have contained system costs since the great reform of 1989. With the approach of...

The Texas Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for October 27 at 9 a.m. in Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Dos Republícas Coal Partnership v. Maverick County, City of Eagle Pass, Environmental Defense Fund, Walter Herring, Ernesto Ibarra,...

On Friday the Texas Supreme Court denied a motion for rehearing of its decision to decline review of the Tyler Court of Appeals’ decisions in UPS Ground Freight, Inc. and Phillip Villarreal v. Cameronn Morrison (No. 20-0224) and UPS Ground Freight, Inc. and Phillip...

Interlocutory appeals of TCPA motions show no sign of slowing down in Texas intermediate appellate courts across the state, though the 2019 amendments seem to be having some impact on how broadly judges are reading the statute. In an opinion out of the Texarkana...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 5, 2021 CONTACT: George Christian 512-320-0474 george@tcjl.com Texas Civil Justice League PAC Endorses Former Justice Terry Adams for Chief Justice of the First Court of Appeals (Houston) The Texas Civil Justice League (TCJL) PAC...

In a 36-page opinion that reads like a scholarly law review article on the Texas Citizen Participation Act (TCPA), the Tyler Court of Appeals has allowed certain claims based on fraud brought by Heisman Trophy winner and NFL Hall of Fame running back Earl Campbell...

In a case somewhat comparable to the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals’ decision we discussed in yesterday’s post, a 2-1 majority of El Paso Court of Appeals has reached the opposite conclusion with respect to whether a defendant design professional waived the right...