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.
HOUSTON - Today, the 14th Court of Appeals affirmed a $5.8 million final judgment against CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric in litigation brought over a property fire.
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.
HOUSTON - Today, the First Court of Appeals affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of NBA star James Harden in a lawsuit brought by Moses Malone, Jr.
HOUSTON - The 14th Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling denying the city of Houston governmental immunity in a lawsuit brought over an automobile collision involving one of the city’s garbage trucks.
HOUSTON - The 14th Court of Appeals recently reversed a ruling denying the Harris County Flood Control District governmental immunity in a lawsuit brought by a man who was injured when a tree he was cutting fell and struck him.
DALLAS - The Fifth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a summary judgment win in favor of OVP Hospitality in a lawsuit alleging a man was severely injured by hot water after slipping on a shampoo bottle in the shower and losing consciousness.
“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.”
HOUSTON - Today, the 14th Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment win in favor of the Houston First Corporation, who was sued by the Republican Party of Texas over the cancellation of its 2020 convention.
AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a 14-state coalition challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on vehicle emissions.
HOUSTON - The First Court of Appeals today affirmed a ruling denying Union Pacific Railroad’s motion to dismiss certain claims under the Texas Citizens Participation Act.
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.
FORT WORTH - The Second Court of Appeals recently reversed in part a ruling denying the Texas Department of Transportation’s plea to the jurisdiction in a lawsuit brought over tree removal.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court denied ExxonMobil’s petition for review Friday, halting the oil giant’s legal effort to pull back the curtain on the authors of climate change litigation.
DALLAS - The Fifth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling granting a motion to certify a class in litigation brought against the USAA Casualty Insurance Company.
HOUSTON — On Friday, a federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction in Longoria v. Paxton, a lawsuit in which Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other officials over the provision in Texas’s new voting law (SB1) that make it a crime for public officials or election officials to solicit people to apply to vote by mail, a press release states.
HOUSTON - A legal dispute between the Houston Astros and season ticketholders has been put on hold, as the 14th Court of Appeals issued an order yesterday abating the ballclub’s appeal.
AUSTIN - On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court affirmed a ruling in favor of BlueStone Natural Resources in a mineral dispute involving a “frequently litigated issue: whether and to what extent a royalty interest bears a proportionate share of postproduction costs.”