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Business Court Grants Special Appearance to California Resident Who Acted as Defendants’ Agent in Disputed Texas Deal
The Business Court has dismissed a non-resident individual from a Texas business dispute for lack of personal jurisdiction, CWK Management, Inc., for itself and...
Business Court Throws Out Fraud Claims in Suit Between AT&T and Service Provider, But Sends Contract Claims to Jury Trial
The Business Court has dismissed competing fraud claims in a dispute between AT&T and a former service provider over the termination of a lucrative alliance over...
Dallas Court of Appeals Affirms Defense Summary Judgment in Fraudulent Lien Case
The Dallas Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order granting summery judgment to a concrete supplier who allegedly filed a fraudulent lien against a...
El Paso Court of Appeals Affirms TC Denial of Chapter 74 Motion to Dismiss Nursing Home Claim
The El Paso Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order denying § 74.351, CPRC, motions to dismiss health care liability claims against a nursing home and two...
Business Court Applies Judicial Immunity to Dismiss Receiver from Post-Divorce Dispute Over Sale of Community Property But Doesn’t Extend Immunity to Entities Created by Receiver to Conduct Sale
The Business Court has granted the Rule 91a motion of a court-assigned receiver who allegedly committed dishonest and fraudulent acts in conducting the sale of...
Divided Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Reverses TC Denial of Motion to Compel in Dispute Over Interment in Wrong Burial Plot
The Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has revered a trial court order denying a cemetery’s motion to compel arbitration in a dispute with a family over an interment in...
Divided Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Reverses TC Denial of Law Firm’s Motion to Compel Arbitration Where Four Years Elapsed While TCPA Motion to Dismiss Was Resolved
Over a dissent, the Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has held that a law firm did not waive its right to arbitration in a dispute with former clients although four...
Governor Abbott Reappoints Ten Judges To Texas Business Court
Governor Greg Abbott today reappointed all ten judges of the Texas Business Court Divisions to new two-year terms beginning September 1, 2026. “Businesses choose...
Houston [1st] Court of Appeals Upholds Disbarment of Attorney
The Houston [1st] Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court judgment disbarring a Houston-area attorney for a long list of disciplinary violations. Diogu Kalu...
Dan Patrick Releases Additional New Legislative Interim Charges
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has released new additional legislative charges for the 2027 legislative session. [embeddoc...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Enforces Arbitration Agreement in Dispute Between Energy Company and BakerBotts
The Houston [14th] Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order denying an energy company’s motion to vacate an arbitration award in favor of its former law firm. EQT Corporation, EQT Production Company, and EQT Energy, LLC v. Baker Botts, LLP and Scott Looper...
Houston [14th] Court of Appeals Affirms TC Denial of City of Houston’s MSJ Under Tort Claims Act
The Houston [14th] Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order denying the City of Houston’s motion for summary judgment, holding that USAA presented sufficient evidence to raise a fact issue concerning whether the city had actual notice of a tort claim. City 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...
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