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Business Court Rejects Claim for Specific Performance in Failed Real Estate Deal
The Business Court [11th Division] has rejected a purported real estate purchaser’s claim of entitlement to specific performance after the sale fell through at the...
SCOTX Grants Mandamus, Dismisses Shareholder Suit Against Trust Advisor, and Enforces Forum-Selection Clause Requiring Shareholder Derivative Suits to Be Brought in Maryland
The Texas Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit filed in Dallas County by shareholders of a Maryland-based real estate investment trust against the trust’s...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses TC Order Vacating $36 Million Arbitration Award
The Dallas Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court order vacating a $36 million arbitration award in a separation dispute between a corporate director and...
Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Reverses TRO in Breach-of-Contract Dispute Over Payment for Crude Oil Deliveries
The Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a trial court's grant of a TRO freezing the transfer of an energy marketing assets pending determination...
Justice Boatman Calls on SCOTX to Consider Whether TRCP 251, 252 Apply to Motions for Continuance of a No Evidence Summary Judgment Hearing
In a case in which plaintiffs moved for continuance of a no evidence summary judgment hearing on the basis that their attorney’s death (which defendants knew about...
Special Election Runoffs for SD9, TX18 Set For Jan. 31st
Governor Greg Abbott today issued a proclamation announcing Saturday, January 31, 2026 as the runoff election date for the unexpired term in the previous 18th...
15th Court of Appeals Dismisses Statutory Claims in Annexation Dispute with City for Mootness, Preserves State’s Attorney’s-Fee Claim under the UDJA
The 15th Court of Appeals has dismissed the state’s lawsuit against the City of Kyle as moot because the city disannexed the property subject to the suit. The court...
Business Court Finds Jurisdiction Over General Contractor’s Third-Party Claims Against Subcontractors in Suit Involving Apartment Complex Construction
The Business Court [Third Division] has denied an apartment developer’s plea to the jurisdiction, which challenged the court’s subject matter jurisdiction over...
Business Court Denies Defense Motion for Summary Judgment in Dispute Over Royalties from Landfill
The Business Court [11th Division] has denied a landfill operator’s motion for summary judgment in a breach of contract suit in which landowners alleged that the...
TCJL Files Amicus Brief in Pennsylvania Superior Court in Case in Which Trial Court Refused to Enforce Texas Forum-Selection Clause
For the first time in its 40-year history, TCJL has filed a brief in the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Ironically, the case, Cardinal Midstream II, LLC...
Dallas Court of Appeals Affirms Take-Nothing Judgment for Defendants in Wrongful Death Case
The Dallas Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court’s take-nothing judgment in a workplace fatality case in which the jury found that the decedent was 51% responsible for his injury. Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez, Individually and as the Administrator of the Estate...
SCOTX Throws Out Candidate’s Suit to Compel RPT to Put Him on the Ballot
In a per curium opinion, SCOTX has rejected former Justice Steven Wayne Smith’s petition for writ of mandamus seeking placement on the Republican Party primary ballot, despite failing to satisfy the statutory petition requirement. In re Steve Smith (No. 25-1107;...
Fort Worth Court of Appeals Affirms TC Order Denying Chapter 74 Motion to Dismiss for Deficient Expert Report
Based on the health care providers’ failure to preserve their objections to the plaintiffs’ supplemental expert report, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals has had no choice but to affirm a trial court order denying the providers’ motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ wrongful...
15th Court of Appeals Affirms TC Dismissal of Insured’s Suit Against TRS, Blue Cross Based on Sovereign Immunity
Regina Carson v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Inc., et al. (No. 15-24-00108-CV; December 18, 2025) arose from a dispute between a public school teacher and Blue Cross, the administrator of her health insurance provided by her ISD under the TRS ActiveCare Plan....
Business Court Denies Defendants’ Motion to Remove for Untimeliness
Sun Metals Group, LLC v. Shuangcheng Yu, Mengling Sun, Sunmetals Products of America, LLC, and Sunmetals Products de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (No. 25-BC01A-0050; 2025 Tex. Bus. 48; December 5, 2025) involved a plaintiff’s motion to remand and request for sanctions....
Business Court Grants Motion to Remove Case to Business Court Based on HB 40’s Lower Amount-in-Controversy Threshold
The Business Court denied the motion to remand filed by Plaintiff OWL AssetCo1, who challenged the jurisdiction of this Court after House Bill 40’s implementation. The Court concluded that the removal of this case was proper under Subsection 25A.006(f) of the Texas...
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