AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court is set to decide whether attorneys in the state can face punishment for soliciting clients in hospitals and grave sites - even if those clients don't live in Texas.
AUSTIN - Those who don't believe cities they don't live in should be able to tell them what to do with their property are taking their case to the Texas Supreme Court.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court undid damage caused by an appeals court on the verge of becoming a "Judicial Hellhole," the American Tort Reform Association notes in its annual report.
AUSTIN – A defendant who was hit with a $21.6 million verdict at a one hour-long bench trial has successfully appealed that result to the Supreme Court of Texas, which found proper notice procedures were not followed and thus, the defendant is entitled to a new trial.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court overturned a woman’s $26 million judgment against Honda Motor Co., ruling state law protects manufacturers against liability over products that meet federal automotive safety standards.
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas reversed a judgment from a lower appellate court and reinstated one from a Dallas County trial court, which found both parties in a fatal motor vehicle-freight train collision negligently caused the accident.
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas has given the go-ahead for McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley to challenge a judicial reprimand she received for refusing to perform same-sex marriages.
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas has upheld a state law which bans medical professionals from performing gender-affirming care for transgender youth, after previously overturning an injunction preventing that same law from being enforced.
AUSTIN - Fossil doesn’t have to defend itself against a lawsuit claiming the retailer “knew or should have known” about an accused sexual harasser the company fired soon after receiving reports of his misconduct, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
AUSTIN - A Texas jury thought Roel Canales deserved $6 million for tripping over a pallet holding watermelons at the Pay and Save grocery store, but the Texas Supreme Court wasn’t buying it.
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas has reversed an appeals court’s prior ruling and declared that a 15-year statute of repose under state law absolves Ford Motor Company of liability, in a personal injury lawsuit brought against the auto manufacturer.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court recently found that two plaintiffs offered evidence that TxDOT intentionally destroyed their trees, remanding the inverse condemnation claim to the trial court for further proceedings.
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court concluded on Friday that Attorney George Fleming has been “judicially estopped” from establishing an essential component of a summary-judgment motion seeking to dismiss malpractice claims over his handling of fen-phen litigation.
AUSTIN - The Supreme Court of Texas recently wiped a $12 million dollar jury award in a lawsuit over a collision with a tractor-trailer, finding that counsel for the plaintiffs crossed a line with “an uninvited accusation of discriminatory animus.”
AUSTIN - Whether Texas State University was timely served in a lawsuit alleging a woman was thrown from a golf has been left to a lower court to decide.
AUSTIN - On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court concluded that the application of the Pandemic Liability Protection Act (PLPA) to a breach-of-contract claim does not violate a retroactivity clause in the Texas Constitution.
HOUSTON - A father recently petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to review Academy Sports + Outdoors’ summary judgment win in a suit asserting his daughter committed suicide with a handgun purchased from the store.
AUSTIN - Several attorneys general are arguing that if the Texas Supreme Court decides to allow a disciplinary action against First Assistant AG Brent Webster to continue it will “open the floodgates.”
