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SCOTX Remands Case to Trial Court That Refused to Consider Responses to Summary Judgment Motions Filed a Day Late
The Texas Supreme Court has held that a trial court abused its discretion when it denied a motion to file a response to a summary judgment tendered one day late...
TCJL, US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Lawyers for Civil Justice Respond to TPLF Opposition
September 25, 2024 TCJL, ILR and LCJ filed a letter with Judge Harvey Brown in response to the opposition letter by Hance Scarborough, representing the International...
SCOTX Agrees to Hear TCPA Case Involving Motion for Discovery Sanctions
The Texas Supreme Court will hear a case raising the issue of whether a motion for discovery sanctions alleging that defendants improperly withheld certain evidence...
SCOTX Accepts Certified Question in Religious Freedom Case
The Texas Supreme Court has accepted a certified question from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals calling for an interpretation of Article I, § 6-a, Texas...
SCOTX Reverses $21 Million Judgment Against Defendant Who Was Not Noticed for Zoom Bench Trial
The Texas Supreme Court, with palpable disgust, has reversed a Dallas Court of Appeals decision that upheld a $21.6 million judgment against a defendant who did not...
CenterPoint Files Motion to Transfer Hurricane Beryl Cases to MDL Court
On August 14, CenterPoint Energy filed a motion with the Multi-District Litigation Panel to transfer four lawsuits related to Hurricane Beryl to an MDL pretrial...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses Denial of Special Appearance in Fraud Case Involving Death of a Horse
In United States Eventing Association, Inc. v. Pegasus Eventing, LLC, Ellen Doughty-Hume, et. al. (No. 05-23-01287-CV; August 5, 2024), Plaintiff, a horse coach for...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reinstates Jury Verdict in Favor of Trinity Industries in Breach of Contract Dispute
In a multi-million dollar suit stemming from a concrete manufacturer’s refusal to reimburse its lessor for corrosive damage to lessor’s railcars, the Dallas Court of...
Beaumont Court of Appeals Dismisses Private Investor Groups from Port Neches Plant Explosition MDL
In a follow-up decision to a 2023 Texas Supreme Court decision declining to grant mandamus compelling a multidistrict litigation court to dismiss them from the case,...
Beaumont Court of Appeals Reverses Trial Court Denial of TCPA Motion to Dismiss and Accompanying Attorney’s Fees Award
The Beaumont Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order dismissing an attorney ad litem’s declaratory judgment action arising from a guardianship proceeding....
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Affirms Dismissal of Chapter 74 Malpractice Claim
Patricia Martin v. Methodist Health Centers d/b/a Houston Methodist Willowbrook and Diego C. Marines Copado, M.D. (No.14-23-00418-CV; filed July 16, 2024) arose from a medical malpractice claim based on the physician’s failure to timely diagnose rectal cancer, which...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Affirms TC Attorney’s Fees Award under UDJA Despite Dismissing the Case Under Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine
Manohar Singh Mann, Narinder Singh Nagra and Bhupinder Singh v. Sikh National Center, Inc. (No. 14-23-00272-CV; filed August 1, 2024) arose from a dispute between the Sikh National Center (SNC) and the appellants over access to SNC’s bank accounts. SNC filed suit,...
Following SCOTX, Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Holds That Type A Economic Corporations Do Not Have Governmental Immunity
The Houston [14th] Court of Appeals has ruled that Type A economic development corporations, although their liability is limited by statute, are not entitled to governmental immunity from suit. In Hitchcock Industrial Development Corp. v. Cressman Tubular Products...
SCOTX Grants Emergency Stay in Motion for New Trial Case Where Trial Court Set Aside a Final Judgment Based on Rule 11 Settlement Agreement
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay pending consideration of a petition for writ of mandamus in a divorce case in which a trial court granted a party’s motion for new trial after the parties had reached a pair of Rule 11 settlement agreements. The...
SCOTX Denies Mandamus in Case Pitting Powerhouse Appellate Firms
In a case pitting appellate firms who are frequent flyers at the Texas Supreme Court, the Court has denied several defendants’ petition for writ of mandamus that claimed a series of procedural abuses by the trial court in a personal injury action. In re C&J Well...
SCOTX Grants Review of Dallas Court of Appeals Decision Involving Texas Dram Shop Act
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a restaurant’s petition for review of a Dallas Court of Appeals’ decision reversing a summary judgment in its favor. Raoger Corporation d/b/a Cadot Restaurant v. Barrie Myers (No. 05-21-00988-CV; No. 23-0662; granted September 27,...
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