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TCJL Bill Tracking Report 5-16-25
TCJL Tracked Bill List 5.15.25 May 15, 2025 Quick Highlights • Nuclear Verdicts: SB 30 substitute expected from House JCJ shortly. SB 30 passed the Senate on...
SCOTX Reverses Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Decision That Defendant Had Actual Notice of Judgment by Virtue of an Unopened Email
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Houston [14th] Court of Appeals decision holding that a defendant who received notice of judgment by email, when the former...
Business Court Clean-up Passes House (HB 40)
An apparently agreed version of the business court clean-up legislation, HB 40, has passed the House. The Senate version, SB 2883, has already been heard in Senate...
SCOTX Recognizes Public-Safety Officer’s Rule in Home Depot Shooting Case
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Dallas Court of Appeals decision in a case stemming from a fatal shooting at a Dallas-area Home Depot in 2018. The facts...
SCOTX: TCPA Does Not Apply to Motions to Compel and for Sanctions
In an important decision for narrowing the scope of the Texas Citizens Participation Act (Ch. 27, CPRC), the Texas Supreme Court has held that the TCPA does not...
Waco Court of Appeals Affirms Rule 91a Dismissal of Plaintiff’s Claims Against Insurer in Dispute Over Policy Proceeds
The Waco Court of Appeals has affirmed a Navarro County district court order dismissing claims against State Farm as without a basis in law and fact under Rule 91a,...
Corpus Christi Court of Appeals Affirms Denial of Nursing Home’s Motion to Dismiss Chapter 74 Claim for Inadequate Expert Report
The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has rejected a nursing home’s challenge to Plaintiff’s expert report on the basis that it did not attach the expert’s CV or...
SCOTX Rules That Civil Barratry Statute Does Not Apply to In-Person Solicitation of Clients in Other States On Behalf of Texas Attorneys
The Texas Supreme Court has held that that the civil barratry statute does not have extraterritorial effect, reversing the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals. Michael A....
TCJL Bill Tracking Report 5-8-25
TCJL Tracked Bill List 5.8.25 May 8, 2025 Quick Highlights • Nuclear Verdicts: SB 30 passed the Senate on 4-16. HB 4806 heard in House JCJ this week. Nuclear...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Reverses TC Denial of Plea to the Jurisdiction in Suit Against Jones Hall Operator
The Houston [14th] Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court determination that a personal injury claimant in a Texas Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the operator...
AI Legislation Heads for Senate Floor (HB 149)
Legislation regulating the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry (not to mention anybody who deploys an AI system for use in the world) has advanced from the Senate Business & Commerce Committee and will presumably go to the Senate floor in short order. The...
Beaumont Court of Appeals Upholds Sanctions Order Against Prominent GOP Attorney
The Beaumont Court of Appeals has upheld a Montgomery County district court order sanctioning former Harris County GOP Chair and unsuccessful House candidate Jared Woodfill for failure to respond to discovery requests in suit against a hospital. Tom Reed and Jared...
SCOTX’s Recent Decision on UM/UIM Cases Bearing Fruit
In the first case we’ve seen since SCOTX decided In re State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. (No. 24-0172; April 25, 2025), the Dallas Court of Appeals has given a Dallas county court at law “an opportunity to revisit its rulings, including the order granting sanctions...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses $1.8 Million Judgment Against Oil Well-Servicing Company
The Dallas Court of Appeals has reversed a $1.8 judgment against a well-servicing company arising from injuries to another contractor’s employee during a test of the integrity of the well’s tubing. Well-Pro Services, L.P. v. Ramon Torres (No. 05-23-00773-CV; April 30,...
SB 30 (Medical Damages) Advances from House JCJ
By a 7-4 margin, the House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee has advanced SB 30, which now deals solely with evidence of medical damages. During the discussion in committee this morning, Chairman Leach laid out a committee substitute. Once it was adopted,...
SCOTX Mandamuses Fort Worth Trial Court for Granting Death-Penalty Sanctions With No Basis in the Evidence
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a trucking company’s petition for writ of mandamus to order a Fort Worth trial court to vacate its death-penalty sanctions order in what appeared to be a relatively minor discovery dispute. Had the order been upheld, the company...
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