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TCJL Pandemic Legislation Tracker: Bills Filed to Date
This session TCJL will monitor bills and resolutions relating the pandemic response, including changes to civil liability, workers' compensation, employment law, and...
Bill Filing Under Way for 87th Legislative Session
With the prefiling period for the 2021 legislative session only 10 days old, legislators have already filed more than 800 bills and resolutions. Bills filed so far...
TCJL Files Amicus Brief in Medical Expense Affidavit Case
Late yesterday TCJL filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court in In Re Leon Paul Savoy, Texas Curb Cut, LP, and Texas Cutting & Coring, LP (No. 20-0843)....
St. Mary’s Law Journal: Texas Citizen Participation Act
Volume 52 | Number 1 10-20-20 Targeting the Texas Citizen Participation Act: The 2019 Texas Legislature's Amendments to a Most Consequential Law Amy Bresnen,...
Corporate Counsel Reporting Litigation Funding Boom Around COVID-19
In-House Counsel, Firm Lawyers Expect the COVID-19 Recession Will Trigger a Litigation Funding Boom “You’re talking about a staggering sum of money that’s waiting to...
Governor Abbott Appoints Rebeca Huddle To The Texas Supreme Court
October 15, 2020 | Austin, Texas | Press Release | Appointment AUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott today held a press conference in El Paso to announce his appointment of...
TCJL Files Brief in DTPA Case
TCJL today filed an amicus brief in a matter pending before the Texas Supreme Court regarding a key provision of the 1995 reforms to the Deceptive Trade Practices...
TCJL PAC 2020 Judicial Endorsements – November General Election
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 1, 2020 CONTACT: Carol Sims, 512-320-0474 TCJL PAC Releases 2020 Judicial Endorsements (Austin): The Texas Civil Justice League...
Presumptive Speaker Phelan Names Policy Staff
Presumptive House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Orange) has announced his policy team for the 2021 legislative session. Rep. Phelan will be formally elected to the Office of Speaker of the House when the Legislature convenes on January 12. Rep. Phelan previously named Julia...
Rep. DeWayne Burns Files Two Versions of Eminent Domain Reform
Earlier today State Rep. DeWayne Burns (R-Cleburne) filed a pair of bills aimed at resolving the legislative impasse over eminent domain reform that began in the 2015 legislative session. The first, HB 901, applies only to private entities with eminent domain...
Update: TCJL Pandemic Tracker
Please stay tuned to the TCJL Pandemic Tracker for updates on legislation arising from or related to the ongoing COVID-19 emergency. We have added five bills to the TCJL Pandemic Bill Tracker since our last report. They concern business interruption insurance,...
TCJL Files Brief in Rule 91a Case
TCJL has filed an amicus curiae brief in a mandamus case before the Texas Supreme Court arising from HB 274 from the 2011 legislative session, In re Southwestern Energy Company, et al. (No. 20-0197). As you may recall, HB 274 was spearheaded by then-Governor Rick...
TCJL Tracker: Employment Law Legislation to Date
Each session legislators file dozens of bills affecting the rights and duties of employers. TCJL has regularly tracked these bills and taken action on them at the request of our membership. This session TCJL, in cooperation with other business and industry...
TCJL Files Brief in Paid or Incurred Case
TCJL has filed an amicus curiae brief in the Texas Supreme Court that concerns the availability of discovery of reasonable and customary medical expenses in a personal injury action. The case, In re K&L Auto Crushers LLC and Thomas Gothard, Jr., Relators (No....
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Fall 2019
- 2019 Legislators of the Year
- 86th Legislative Session Report
- Texas Civil Justice League Amicus Report
- Eminent Domain: Why S.B. 421 was a Litigation Nightmare
- Interim Study to Take Another Look at Judicial Selection
- Paid or Incurred: Next Frontier of Tort Reform? Close Paid or Incurred Loophole