AUSTIN, Texas, March 22, 2022 – Butler Snow attorney Karson K. Thompson has been recognized as a Rising Star in the 2022 edition of Texas Super Lawyers®. Thompson has been recognized as a Rising Star in business litigation since 2020, a press release states.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.
After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
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 – Attorney General Ken Paxton released a formal attorney general opinion concluding that performing certain “sex-change” procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, is “child abuse” under Texas law.
AUSTIN - An attorney general opinion apparently can’t determine whether a banquet facility inside a stadium owned by the school district is a “building of a public school.”
AUSTIN - The Weslaco Independent School District has sent a request to the Office of the Attorney General to enter into a professional services agreement with legal counsel regarding an insurance claim dispute concerning Hurricane Hanna's effects on its facilities.
The following cases categorized as "real property - condemnation" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Dec. 8. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "real property - condemnation" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Dec. 7. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "real property - condemnation" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Dec. 6. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by City of Houston against Cathay Bank, City of Houston, Cloto LLC, Fondren Village Plaza LLC, Garrison Fondren, HLPW Fondren LLC, Harris County, Texas, Houston Independent School District, SJY Fortunep LLC, SSS Fondren Market Place LLC and SSS Village at Southwest LLC on Dec. 8.
