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Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Enforces Arbitration Agreement in Dispute Over Agreement to Settle Employee’s Sexual Assault Claim
The Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order compelling arbitration of an employee’s claim that her employer breached an agreement settling...
Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Affirms TC Denial of Motion to Arbitrate in Case Involving Online Loan Application
Over an unfiled dissent, the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court denial of a motion to arbitrate a dispute over a loan agreement where an...
Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Rules TCPA Inapplicable to Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Against Law Firm
The Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court ruling dismissing an oil and gas producer’s breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against a prominent...
SCOTX Mandamuses Trial Court That Compelled a Defendant to Produce Self-Incriminating Discovery in Violation of Fifth Amendment
The Texas Supreme Court has ordered a trial court to vacate parts of an order granting a motion to compel a defendant’s response to interrogatories that would...
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...
SCOTX Grants Review in Dispute Over Ownership of Salt Dome Used for Hydrocarbon Storage
9-13-24 The Texas Supreme Court has granted review in a case from the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals raising the question of whether a mineral lessee owns subsurface caverns the lessee created in its salt mining operation. Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Underground Services...
TCJL Comments on AI Bill Draft
TCJL submitted comments this week on Representative Gio Capriglione's AI bill draft, the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA). All materials are posted on the AI resource page.
TCJL Legislative Tracking Report 11-20-24
Prefiling for the 89th Texas Legislature began on Tuesday, November 12, 2024. A total of 1,511 bills and resolutions were filed in the House and Senate on the first day, which is a new record. By contrast, 920 bills were filed on the first day of prefiling in 2022. ...
TCJL Files Brief in $10 Billion Mass Litigation Arising From Winter Storm Uri
Today TCJL filed an amicus curiae brief in in support of the investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities’ petition for writ of mandamus in the ongoing Winter Storm Uri MDL in Harris County. In In Re ONCOR Electric Delivery Co. LLC; ONCOR Electric Delivery...
Beaumont Court of Appeals Mandamuses Trial Court for Issuing Sanctions Order for Discovery Abuses Without a Determination of a TCPA Motion to Dismiss
In re Bruce L. Jamison (No. 09-21-00223-CV; October 24, 2024) arose from a nasty dispute associated with the involuntary windup of a luxury auto dealer in Montgomery County. Jamison’s client, Powers, applied to the trial court to windup the business but also asserted...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses Multi-Million Dollar Jury Verdict Because Plaintiff Violated Fair Notice Pleading Standard
The Dallas Court of Appeals has reversed a nearly $2 million judgment, $380,000 of which consisted of punitive damages, against two executives of a credit card processing company who allegedly defrauded a lender. Background The facts of Thomas A. “Kip” Hyde and...
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