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Judicial races are “down ballot.” What this means is that they’re typically at the end of a very long list of items needing voters’ attention. The Texas Civil Justice League is reminding Texans that ballot fatigue is bad for our state — we are urging voters to...

The Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a trial court order granting summary judgment in favor of two plaintiff’s attorneys accused of running cases in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A business owned by one of the attorney’s wives, which...

Next Tuesday GOP voters will head for the polls (those who have not voted early, that is) to select candidates for the general election ballot in November. By now voters will more than likely have heard from the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, who are advertising...

As Tuesday’s primary election date approaches, voters in Harris County are already going to the polls to pick a slate of candidates for November’s general election. If you’re voting in the GOP primary, you’ll see some familiar names on the first page or two of the...

On remand from the Texas Supreme Court’s reversal of its prior decision, the Austin Court of Appeals has ruled that federal law does not pre-empt the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act with regard to air ambulance services provided to injured workers covered by...

We have reported on several appeals involving whether a Texas court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident, including most recently Justice Busby’s opinion in In re Christianson Air Conditioning & Plumbing, LLC and Continental Homes of Texas, LP...

A unanimous Eleventh Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court’s take-nothing judgment against a cattle owner who alleged that the operator was liable under premises liability and negligent entrustment theories for injuries to his cattle. In Tim Foote and Keith...

The Texas Supreme Court today denied Exxon Mobil’s petition for review of a Fort Worth Court of Appeals opinion holding that the plaintiffs, various California local governments, do not have sufficient minimum contacts with Texas so that Texas courts could exercise...

In a suit involving an alleged breach of an oral agreement, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order dismissing the suit under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA). M.A. Mills, P.C. v. John P. Notts and Boumatic, LLC (No....

In a case we initially reported on last September, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that “a limitation of liability provision in a utility tariff approved by state regulators bars the utility’s liability for damages suffered by a residential customer’s...

As part of the landmark 2003 civil justice reforms, the Legislature established the judicial panel on multidistrict litigation with authority “to transfer civil actions involving one or more common questions of fact pending in the same or different” courts for...

In an opinion authored by Justice Huddle, the Texas Supreme Court has held that courts may consider extrinsic evidence of coverage facts when the “eight-corners rule” cannot determine coverage because of gaps in the plaintiff’s pleading. Monroe Guaranty Insurance...