BEAUMONT – Nearly two years after initially dismissing an auto collision suit against Jefferson County, the Ninth Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling denying the county’s plea to the jurisdiction.
The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on Americans’ health as well as the health of our economy over the past several months. The real estate industry is certainly no exception. Due to challenges and unpredictability ahead, combined with record unemployment and cost-cutting layoffs, many Americans have put their plans to purchase a home on hold.
FORT WORTH – Last month, a conflicted appellate court ruled it does not have jurisdiction over California cities and counties pursuing climate change lawsuits against the energy sector.
SAN ANTONIO – HouseCanary recently filed a motion to supplement the record and for leave to take jurisdictional discovery in its lawsuit against Quicken Loans.
AUSTIN - A Haynes and Boone appellate team led by Partner Mark Trachtenberg persuaded the Texas Supreme Court on June 19 to vacate a $16.5 million judgment and deny injunctive relief in a highly contentious trade secret dispute.
AUSTIN – The Texas Supreme Court recently granted HouseCanary’s petition for review and will soon decide whether to reverse an appellate court’s decision to overturn an order sealing eight exhibits that the company argues protect its trade secrets.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – A Texas law protecting defendants does not apply to the wrongful death lawsuit filed after a ranch hand was apparently killed by the livestock he was tasked with herding.
Following recent decisions by the Texas Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit, Attorney General Ken Paxton today issued another guidance letter to Texas county judges and election officials, warning that Texans may not claim disability based on fears of contracting COVID-19 to obtain a mail-in ballot.
Kendyl T. Hanks, Charles “Skip” Watson, and Nicole Leonard Córdoba, attorneys in the Austin office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, presented at the University of Texas School of Law Continuing Legal Education (CLE) 30th Annual Conference on State and Federal Appeals
SAN ANTONIO – One of the largest verdicts in Texas History has been axed. On June 3, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals overturned a $706 judgment in the Title Source v. HouseCanary case.
DALLAS – Shelly Luther, a salon owner who was jailed for opening her business and violating an executive stay-at-home order, wants the judge who sentenced her off the case.
WINNIE – More than 30 residents in Chambers County have filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas, alleging that the design of a local highway has caused repeated flooding of thousands of acres of property, including their homes and businesses.
HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan has joined officials from four other counties in a brief filed with the Supreme Court explaining that voters should not have to risk their health in order to exercise their constitutional right to vote in an election.
