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Amarillo Court of Appeals Affirms Judgment Against TxDOT in Motorcyle Accident Case
The Amarillo Court of Appeals has held that the Texas Tort Claims Act’s limitation on a governmental entity’s liability in a premises liability case did not apply...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Mandamuses TC for Granting Plaintiff’s Massive Discovery Request Prior to Hearing on Defense Motion to Compel Arbitration
In re Energy Transfer LP, Enable Midstream Partners, LP, and Enable GP, LLC (No. 14-23-00479-CV; February 6, 2024) arose from a personal injury action brought by an...
El Paso Court of Appeals Upholds Exclusion of Defense Video Evidence in Trucking Case
National Oil Well Varco, LP and Kenneth Beauford v. Elmer Sanchez (No. 08-23-00096-CV; February 9, 2024) arose from a rear-end collision in which company truck...
Corpus Christi Court of Appeals Kicks Insufficient Chapter 74 Expert Report Back to Trial Court
The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a trial court ruling denying a health care provider’s motion to dismiss for failure to comply with the...
San Antonio Court of Appeals Mandamuses Trial Court for Improperly Granting New Trial to Plaintiff in Personal Injury Action
The San Antonio Court of Appeals has conditionally granted a defendant’s petition for writ of mandamus against a Karnes County trial court that granted a prevailing...
SCOTX Holds That Settlement Means Settlement, Rejecting Plaintiff’s Attempt to Evade Application of the Settlement Credit
Cracking the whip on an effort to evade the one-satisfaction rule, the Texas Supreme Court has held that a settlement agreement with an agreed judgment of $1.9...
In Concurring Opinion Justice Young Calls for Judgment Rendition Reform
Concurring in an opinion in which the Texas Supreme Court held that a judgment sent by e-mail to each party’s attorney in a divorce case was not “rendered” because...
SCOTX Rules for Lenders in Statute of Limitations Case on Certified Question from Fifth Circuit
In a case of great interest to lenders, the Texas Supreme Court responded to a certified question from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the...
Corpus Christi Court of Appeals Affirms Defense Judgment in Landowner Suit Against Oil Producer
The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order dismissing a landowner’s claims that an oil and gas producer breached its lease agreement and...
SCOTX Accepts Certified Question from Fifth Circuit in TCEQ Permitting Case
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to respond to a certified question from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in an important case involving the interpretation...
ExxonMobil Prevails in Statutory Employer Case Before Houston [14th] Court of Appeals
In a case stemming from a 2019 fire and explosion at ExxonMobil’s Baytown Olefins Plant, the Houston [14th] Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying Exxon’s motion for summary judgment based on the exclusive remedy defense. ExxonMobil Corporation v....
SCOTX Holds That “Imperfect” Medical Authorization Form Still Triggers 75-Day Tolling Provision in Chapter 74 Health Care Liability Claim
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Beaumont Court of Appeals decision holding that a defective Chapter 74 medical authorization form filed with the required notice of claim did not trigger the 75-day tolling period for a health care liability claim. In Dorothy...
Fort Worth Court of Appeals Holds TCPA Inapplicable to Declaratory Judgment Action Challenging Constitutionality of SB 8
Joining the Austin Court of Appeals, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals has held that the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Ch. 27, CPRC) cannot be used to shut down an abortion fund’s constitutional challenge to SB 8, the so-called “Hearbeat Act.” As you may recall,...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses County Court At Law Dismissal of Landlord’s Eviction Action for Abuse of Discretion
A routine landlord-tenant dispute is not something we would ordinarily report, but we note this one out of the Dallas Court of Appeals because it appears to involve a county court at law’s blatant disregard of the law or an egregious misunderstanding of it. Either...
Amarillo Court of Appeals Affirms Judgment Against TxDOT in Motorcyle Accident Case
The Amarillo Court of Appeals has held that the Texas Tort Claims Act’s limitation on a governmental entity’s liability in a premises liability case did not apply because TxDOT created a special defect on an I-35 frontage road that caused plaintiff’s accident. Texas...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Mandamuses TC for Granting Plaintiff’s Massive Discovery Request Prior to Hearing on Defense Motion to Compel Arbitration
In re Energy Transfer LP, Enable Midstream Partners, LP, and Enable GP, LLC (No. 14-23-00479-CV; February 6, 2024) arose from a personal injury action brought by an employee of the relators. At the time of his employment, Plaintiff signed an employment agreement...
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