Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Kent Rutter and Associate Natasha Breaux have completed a study of all non-criminal decisions issued by all 14 Texas courts of appeals from September 2018 to August 2019.
BEAUMONT -- After plaintiffs failed to issue a certificate of merit in their first amended complaint, the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals reversed Aug. 22 an order that denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss.
“When there are no rules, bad actors come out of the woodwork,” observes attorney Jeff Raizner. “Appraisal misconduct is rampant, and I predict that the entire process will eventually be outlawed … if it doesn’t get cleaned up fast.”
Charles “Skip” Watson, a shareholder in the Austin office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has been honored with the 2019 Chief Justice Jack Pope Professionalism Award by the Texas Center for Legal Ethics.
Dallas Partner Elizabeth Lang Miers, a member of Locke Lord’s Appellate Practice Group, was sworn in as 2019-2020 Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Judicial Division during the ABA’s Annual Meeting.
HOUSTON – Taking a stand against partial judges in the courtroom, Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) seeks to inform citizens of a better selection process ahead of the next election.
AUSTIN – With the 86th Texas Legislative Session now in the books, Texans for Lawsuit reform says its just completed one of its “busiest and most successful legislative sessions ever.”
HOUSTON (SE Texas Record) — A man injured in in a 2016 vehicular accident in Waller County after an unidentified vehicle that did not contact his own car but caused him to collide with another automobile is not entitled to uninsured motorist benefits, a state appeals court recently ruled.
HOUSTON – Before Orlando Sanchez’s suit was dismissed, he received a settlement offer from the man who poured water on him during a press conference – $200, “enough to cover (his) dry cleaning bill.”
AUSTIN - The State Bar of Texas has launched an all-out offensive, firing a barrage of filings yesterday in hopes of killing a lawsuit brought by three attorneys who contend paying mandatory dues violates their First Amendment rights.
HOUSTON – Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke grabbed a myriad of headlines last month by proposing to spend $5 trillion in an effort to combat climate change.
What garnered little attention from the media, however, was a single sentence in the “guarantee net-zero emissions” part of O’Rourke’s plan: “Enforcing our laws to hold polluters accountable, including for their historical actions or crimes.”
HOUSTON – The Supreme Court of Texas delivered an opinion April 12 that changed the interpretation of a Texas law that has existed since 1879 stating that an applicant for probate is charged with the failure of any predecessor to probate a will before them.
