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Saturday, November 2, 2024

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Recent News About Assumption

  • Pandemic Liability Protection Act: Is SB 6 Working?

    By George Christian |
    Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?

  • Does the Written Constitution Matter?

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.

  • Fifth Circuit: OSHA COVID-19 mandate on jabs, tests and masks violates the ‘safeguards of our collective liberty’

    By Staff reports |
    NEW ORLEANS - A recent OSHA mandate requiring employees of covered employers to undergo COVID-19 vaccination or take weekly COVID-19 tests and wear a mask “violates the constitutional structure that safeguards our collective liberty,” according to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

  • Another Look at a Texas Nuclear Verdict

    By Texans for Lawsuit Reform |
    The 14th Court of Appeals in Houston recently decided to take up one of the largest nuclear verdicts in the state.