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15th Court of Appeals Affirms TC Summary Judgment for Workers’ Compensation Carrier in Benefits Dispute
The 15th Court of Appeals has affirmed summary judgment in favor of a workers’ compensation carrier in a dispute with an injured worker over the scope of her injury....
15th Court of Appeals Agrees with Trial Court That PUC Amendment to Rate Filing Package for Municipal Transmission Utility Was Arbitrary and Capricious
The 15th Court of Appeals has affirmed a Travis County district court ruling that the PUC violated its own rules when it made a significant change in its Rate Filing...
Business Court Tosses Lawsuit Arising Out of Dispute Between Devotees of Indian Saint Sai Baba
The Business Court has granted summary judgment to defendants in a lawsuit brought by trustees who pushed forward with an election to divest the existing board of...
15th Court of Appeals Rules for Comptroller in Franchise Tax Dispute Over COGS Deduction
The 15th Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court judgment against two taxpayers whose franchise tax audit resulted in a deficiency. Toro Rojo, Inc. and Casco...
15th Court of Appeals Rejects Breach of Contract, Takings Claims Against MD Anderson Based on Sovereign Immunity
The 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying MD Anderson’s plea to the jurisdiction in a suit alleging that it breached a license agreement...
Business Court Largely Dismisses Lawsuit by Disgruntled Parishioners Against Second Baptist Church of Houston
The Business Court has granted summary judgment to the Second Baptist Church on most claims brought by an association of church members that contested a change in...
15th Court of Appeals Affirms TC Dismissal of State’s Lawsuit Against City of Dallas and State Fair of Texas Over Gun Ban
The 15th Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order granting summary judgment to the City of Dallas and State Fair of Texas in the much ballyhooed (and...
Business Court Rejects Work Product Privilege Assertion in Discovery Dispute
The Business Court has rejected an investment entity’s assertion of the work product privilege for notes taken by one of its representatives of a phone call with a...
15th Court of Appeals Applies Sovereign Immunity to Bar Property Owner’s Suit Seeking Restitution of Property Sold by State to Pay a Subsequently Overturned DTPA Judgment
The 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order denying the state’s plea to the jurisdiction in a lawsuit seeking restitution for the value of property...
Divided 15th Court Rules That Attorney Immunity Applies to Attorney That Allegedly Provided Business Advice to Corporate Entity
A split 15th Court of Appeals has reversed a Business Court order denying an attorney defendant’s Rule 91a motion to dismiss based on the affirmative defense of...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Reverses TC Summary Judgment, Holds That Indemnity Provision Was Not Enforceable Against a Contractor
The Houson [14th] Court of Appeals has ruled that an indemnity provision contained in a document incorporated by reference into an agreement between a railroad and a contractor was not enforceable because the provision was not conspicuous and didn’t satisfy the fair...
Business Court Issues Split Decision in Contractor’s Suit Against Its Former Employee and Brown & Root in Trade Secrets Case
The Business Court has granted Brown & Root’s motion for summary judgment based on claim preclusion but denied that of Plaintiffs’ former employee, who was a nonparty in a prior suit in Chambers County district court. CAM Industrial Solutions LLC; CAM Plant...
Business Court Dismisses Plaintiffs’ Conversion Claim Under Rule 91a in Dispute Between Investors in a Brewery
The Business Court has granted Defendants’ Rule 91a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ conversion claim based on a restructuring of LLC members’ interests in a Houston brewery. Duncan C. Carrington and Zachary Hiller v. Aaron Corsi, Ryan Soroka, Seaan M. Rosenbaum;...
We Ask Again: Why is the 15th Court of Appeals Deciding a Health Care Liability Dispute Between Private Parties?
A while back we expressed some puzzlement about why the statewide 15th Court of Appeals was receiving cases outside of its statutory mandate by way of docket equalization. Yesterday, for example, the court issued an opinion in a health care liability action brought by...
Business Court Sends Louisiana Antitrust Claim to Louisiana, But Denies Rule 91a Motion to Dismiss Louisiana DTPA Claims
The Business Court has dismissed a Louisiana entity’s claim that Texas defendants violated Louisiana antitrust law in connection with a clean hydrogen development deal. The entity’s claim that they likewise violated Louisiana’s DTPA, however, are staying put for the...
Business Court Denies Defendant’s Plea to the Jurisdiction and Plea in Abatement in Corporate Dissolution Case Involving San Antonio Auto Dealership Giant
The Business Court has denied a defendant’s attempt to escape the jurisdiction of the Business Court in an action for dissolution and winding up of several entities that own and operate numerous automobile dealerships in San Antonio and elsewhere. Abigail G. Kampmann,...
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