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Katherine Franco Recognized in Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Class of 2022
Katherine Franco Recognized in Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Class of 2022. -
Texas AG joins coalition to open offshore oil and gas leases
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. -
Texas AG defends energy companies against public nuisance claim over global warming
AUSTIN –Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a multistate amicus brief in the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in support of the defendant energy companies in Delaware v. BP America, Inc. -
CILP asks Supreme Court to limit national injunctions in Biden v. Texas
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. -
Elizabeth ‘Heidi’ G. Bloch to Present at TexasBar CLE on Advanced Trial Strategies
Elizabeth ‘Heidi’ G. Bloch to Present at TexasBar CLE on Advanced Trial Strategies. -
Texas Supreme Court punts on climate change lawfare case
“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.” -
Texas SC finds health care provider’s policies & procedures fall outside of scope of pre-report discovery
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. -
Group argues Cali municipalities targeting Texas businesses with climate change litigation
AUSTIN - While California municipalities bringing climate change lawsuits argue Texas courts lack jurisdiction over litigation brought by ExxonMobil, one group is arguing that their suits are “actually part of a coordinated, nationwide campaign targeting Texas businesses.” -
Paxton joins multistate amicus brief against Apple for allegedly violating antitrust laws
AUSTIN –Attorney General Ken Paxton joined several states in an amicus brief at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Epic Games, Inc., in its lawsuit against Apple, Inc., relating to Apple's alleged violations of state and federal antitrust laws in the operation of its App Store, a press release states. -
Attorney asks Texas Supreme Court to ‘condemn’ appellate court’s ‘political statements’ in Exxon climate change case
AUSTIN - A Houston attorney is asking the Texas Supreme Court to “condemn” the asserted “political statements” the Second Court of Appeals made in its opinion concerning ExxonMobil’s climate change case. -
State of Texas backs attorneys in legal battle over mandatory bar dues currently before SCOTUS
WASHINGTON - The state of Texas has sided against the State Bar of Texas, filing a brief in support of a trio of attorneys asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that members of a mandatory bar cannot be compelled to finance any political or ideological activities with their dues. -
California municipalities use of ‘lawfare’ establishes sufficient Texas contacts, Exxon argues in climate change case
AUSTIN - While the California municipalities bringing climate change lawsuits against oil companies are arguing Texas courts lack jurisdiction because of a lack of contacts within the state, ExxonMobil contends their use of “lawfare” has in fact established sufficient contacts “to be held to account here.” -
Paxton Joins Amicus Brief Opposing SEC and NASDAQ Quotas for Corporate Board Members Based on Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation
Paxton Joins Amicus Brief Opposing SEC and NASDAQ Quotas for Corporate Board Members Based on Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation. -
TCJL Files Amicus Brief in Second CGL Coverage Case Arising from Baytown Refinery Accident
As we reported nearly three months ago, the First Court of Appeals [Houston] handed down a decision in a coverage dispute between an additional insured and CGL carriers that flatly contravenes recent SCOTX precedent. -
Settlement Averts SCOTX Consideration of Trial Court Setting Remote Jury Trial Over Objection of the Parties
On Monday, November 1 a remote jury trial was scheduled to commence in a Travis County district court. -
Group condemns DOJ’s ‘frivolous’ suit against Texas over election integrity reforms
AUSTIN – By attacking states with frivolous lawsuit, the Biden Administration has weaponized the Department of Justice into an arm of the Democrat political party, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability. -
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and 80 elected attorneys and law enforcement leaders tell Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law in DOJ suit
HOUSTON — Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee and dozens of District Attorneys and former Attorneys General, U.S. Attorneys, and law enforcement leaders across the country filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday opposing the Texas abortion law. -
Attorney General Paxton joins 10-state coalition to regulate big tech censorship
AUSTIN – Attorney General Paxton led a 10-state coalition that filed an amicus brief in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Florida’s law that regulates censorship on Big Tech platforms by requiring them to apply their content-moderation practices in a consistent manner and to provide disclosures to affected users. -
Paxton Joins Coalition to Stop the ATF from Infringing on Second Amendment Rights
Paxton Joins Coalition to Stop the ATF from Infringing on Second Amendment Rights. -
The ABA's Long March Continues
Nothing better exemplifies the Gramscian “long march through the institutions” than the role of the American Bar Association in transforming America’s legal establishment.