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Dallas Court of Appeals Confirms Arbitration Award in Dispute Between Plaintiff’s Firm and Medical Bill Factoring Company
In a case exposing the unsavory practices of some plaintiff’s firms and medical bill factoring companies, the Dallas Court of Appeals has affirmed a Dallas County district court’s confirmation of an arbitration award of nearly $550,000 to a factoring company.
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Making Chancery Court Dreams Come True
Ah, celebrities—they’re just like us. At least when it comes to squabbles between business partners.
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OPINION: Woke Investing Rules Will Harm Texas Seniors
Thanks to the leadership of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and Attorney General Ken Paxton, Texas taxpayers and investors are not currently hindered by woke Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) investment policies.
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Let Texans Run Texas
Here in Texas, we have a saying, “Let Texans run Texas.” This declaration is a reminder of the importance of states' rights, why we must protect our sovereignty, and each and every state’s constitutional right to determine their own laws based upon what is best for that state. It’s a reminder that we are, indeed, the United States of America.
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The Establishment’s Paxton Impeachment Sham Undermines The Will Of Texas Voters
To the dismay of the RINO establishment in Texas, their campaign to besmirch Paxton has not diminished his popular support.
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Reform Works, But There’s Work to Be Done
When our civil justice system works correctly, it’s a fair forum to settle disputes and appropriately compensate those who have been legitimately harmed. At its worst, it can be a system rife for abuse that costs us all.
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Texans Have Much To Be Proud Of In Their Supreme Court
We probably don’t say it frequently enough, but Texans have a really good thing in the Texas Supreme Court.
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Bill Filing Commences for 88th Legislative Session
As of the time of posting, more than 1000 bills and resolutions have been filed in the opening days of the pre-filing period.
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Should New Texas Judges Be Required to Obtain Board Certification?
As part of the larger debate over the manner in which Texas selects its judiciary, one aspect of the issue has attracted a higher degree of consensus than the process of selection itself: judicial qualifications.
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Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas Ends Automatic Assignment to Judge Albright of Patent Cases Filed in Waco Division: A Look at the Numbers
Is this the end for Judge Alan Albright’s dominance as the most popular judge for filing patent infringement suits?
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VICTORY: Jury Rules Texas Woman is Entitled to $59,656 After SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home While Pursuing Fugitive
SHERMAN, Texas—Today, a federal jury ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 in damages after a SWAT team destroyed her McKinney, Texas, home while pursuing a fleeing fugitive in July 2020. The ruling is a victory for Vicki, who joined forces with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit in March 2021, after the city refused to pay for the damage that had been caused.
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Pandemic Liability Protection Act: Is SB 6 Working?
Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?
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Ivy League Justice
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.
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IJ scores first-round victory for Texas mechanic
IJ client Azael Sepulveda can finally open his mechanic's shop in Pasadena, Texas. That's because of a rare temporary injunction we secured yesterday against the city's demand that he build dozens of useless and expensive parking spots.
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Unmasking the Nanny State
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.
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Patients with Kidney Disease Need Medigap Expansion Bill
Kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis. Since I went into renal failure, I’ve believed that patients should only have to worry about the care they need to get well, not the high costs that come with it.
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Does the Written Constitution Matter?
Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.
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Old Dog, New Tricks
The concept of a public nuisance goes back to old English criminal laws making it, for example, a crime to obstruct the king’s highway.
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A Foundation for Innovation
Texas’ road from Spindletop to Tesla seems unlikely, but in reality, it was inevitable.
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Time to Revisit the Standards for Awarding Mental Anguish Damages?
The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?