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SCOTX Delivers Split Decision in Dispute Between Owner and Contractor
Over two dissenting opinions, the Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Fourteenth [Houston] Court of Appeals decision affirming a judgment (including attorney’s fees)...
SCOTX Denies Review in TCPA Case Involving Environmental Contamination
The Texas Supreme Court has declined to review a decision of the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals holding that the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Chapter 27, CPRC)...
Austin Court of Appeals Rules That PUC Acted Without Legal Authority by Failing to Fund Universal Service Fund, Cutting Payments to Rural Telecom Providers
In a 63-page opinion authored by Justice Gisela Triana and joined by Chief Justice Darlene Byrne and Justice Chari Kelly, the Austin Court of Appeals has held that...
SCOTX Holds that Zoning Commission’s Approval of Proposed Plat Protected by Governmental Immunity*
In an opinion by Chief Justice Hecht, the Texas Supreme Court has held that the City of Georgetown’s Planning and Zoning Commission did not abuse its discretion when...
California Governor Signs Bill Mirroring SB 8 for Firearms
California Governor Gavin Newsome has put his signature on legislation inspired by SB 8, the Texas statute enacted last session permitting private citizens to...
Class Action Certification in Lawsuit Against Apartment Owner Heads to SCOTX
A case pitting hundreds of tenants against the owner and manager of an apartment complex in Harris County will get a hearing before the Texas Supreme Court. The case...
Courts Determine Ownership of Water Rights, Not TCEQ*
In an opinion by Chief Justice Hecht, the Texas Supreme Court has held that the legislative delegation of authority to TCEQ to “adjudicate water rights” (Chapter 5,...
SCOTX To Review Class Action Certification for Suit Against Student Housing Provider
The Texas Supreme Court has granted review in a class action certification case raising some of the same issues as the Mosaic Baybrook case we reported yesterday. In...
TCJL Urges SCOTX to Reconsider Pipeline Valuation Ruling
TCJL has filed an amicus brief asking the Texas Supreme Court to take another look at its recent decision in Hlavinka v. HSC Pipeline Partnership, LLC (No. 20-0567)....
TCJL Files Brief in Case Challenging Public Adjuster Licensing Statute
In the wake of a series of 2003 hailstorms that resulted in a huge spike in roof claims (not to mention litigation against insurers), the Texas Legislature passed a...
Could California Lawsuit Be a Template for Texas in the Post-Dobbs Era?*
A California federal lawsuit attracting national attention could arguably become a template for anti-abortion groups seeking to hold civilly and criminally liable Texas businesses that provide health care benefits for employees seeking medical care across state lines....
Proposed “Model” Law Incorporates and Expands SB 8 Cause of Action*
An Indiana-based law firm representing the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is proposing a model state statute that expands criminal and civil liability for aiding and abetting an abortion. The proposal would create a vast litigation industry aimed primarily at...
Corpus Christi Court of Appeals Decides Important Tort Claims Act Case
In a thorough analysis of the Texas Tort Claims Act’s waiver of sovereign immunity, the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s denial of a city’s plea to jurisdiction in a personal injury lawsuit. The case, City of Brownsville v. Daniel Reglado,...
San Antonio Court of Appeals Rules Against State in School District Vaccine Mandate Case
Joining its sister courts in Dallas and Austin, the San Antonio Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court’s denial of the State’s request for a temporary injunction barring enforcement of the San Antonio Independent School District’s employee COVID-19 vaccine...
SCOTX Delivers Split Decision in Dispute Between Owner and Contractor
Over two dissenting opinions, the Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Fourteenth [Houston] Court of Appeals decision affirming a judgment (including attorney’s fees) obtained by an owner against a contractor in a breach of contract dispute. At the same time, the Court...
SCOTX Denies Review in TCPA Case Involving Environmental Contamination
The Texas Supreme Court has declined to review a decision of the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals holding that the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Chapter 27, CPRC) does not apply to plaintiffs’ suit against a railroad for personal injury claims based on the...
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- Eminent Domain: Why S.B. 421 was a Litigation Nightmare
- Interim Study to Take Another Look at Judicial Selection
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