AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a multistate amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging reversal of a lower court’s decision to vacate the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history, a press release states.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether a federal regulation protecting food stamp consumers and state governments in charge of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from lawsuits by retailers also gives technology contractors complete immunity from all state-law causes of action brought by retailers.
BEAUMONT - On Friday, a Jefferson County jury returned a verdict of $2,979,523 against a local doctor and physician group in a medical malpractice case after a week-long trial, according to a case summary provided by The Daws Law Firm.
AG Paxton Again Sues Biden Over Border: New Immigration Rules Drastically Lower “Asylum” Bar, Forming New Incentives for Next Flood of Aliens.
HOUSTON - The 14th Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court decision to grant Dow Chemical summary judgment on the ground of limitations in a lawsuit alleging a man developed cancer after being exposed to radiation.
WASHINGTON – The Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law today filed an amicus brief in Biden v. Texas arguing that injunctions obtained by individual states should rarely be applied nationwide, and instead should generally be limited to the territory of the states that filed suit.
“Lawfare is an ugly tool by which to seek the environmental policy changes the California Parties desire, enlisting the judiciary to do the work that the other two branches of government cannot or will not do to persuade their constituents that anthropogenic climate change (a) has been conclusively proved and (b) must be remedied by crippling the energy industry.”
AUSTIN - A health care provider’s general policies and procedures fall outside the narrow scope of pre-report discovery permitted in medical-liability cases, the Texas Supreme Court recently opined.
HOUSTON - The 14th Court of Appeals recently denied Kirby Offshore Marine’s petition for writ of mandamus, which sought to vacate a lower court’s order compelling production of unredacted documents.
First of all, don’t mess with Texas. Second, if you’re foolish enough to try that, plan on messing with Texas in Texas, because our state’s long-arm statute gives us the home-field advantage.
The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Jan. 5. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Jan. 4. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Jan. 3. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "cases appealed from lower courts" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Dec. 30. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
