Patently O

JANUARY 12, 2022

Plastronics Socket split into two companies: Plastronics Socket and Plastronics H-Pin under Texas “divisive merger” statute. (It is odd, but under Texas law, a division in this way is legally defined as a merger). The Texas allowed the claim — since it was an ongoing license.

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Law 360

APRIL 14, 2022

A Texas federal jury awarded energy exploration and production company Antero Resources Corp. million in damages Thursday afternoon after finding a former high-level employee accepted kickbacks from a Texas businessman in exchange for lucrative contracts related to the company's West Virginia projects.

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Paralegal.edu

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Just over 6 months ago graduation was held in person at South Texas College of Law and 105 paralegal credentials were conferred. In over 40 years as an attorney, his practice areas included civil litigation, employment, insurance defense, contracts, and business law. The commencement address will be presented by Larry D.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2025

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority including a look at widespread antitrust litigation surrounding the National Association of Realtors broker rules, the role contracts may play in combating a trade war, and the implications for real estate if casinos come to the Lone Star State.

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2023

A bill heading to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's desk is a push for specialist judges with more expertise in the business area, but it is unlikely to have an immediate effect on mergers and acquisition practitioners and contracts, for several important reasons, says Candace Groth at Vela Wood.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

XTO Energy, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, sued Energy Transfer LLC on Monday in a Texas state court for breach of contract involving disputed fines related to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 26, 2019

Set against the eclectic backdrop of Austin at the JW Marriott on 2nd Street, this year’s State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting offered a lot to attendees. The State Bar of Texas roped in some heavy hitters to share their knowledge and experience. So much fun covering the 2019 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting.

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JURIST

AUGUST 16, 2024

A US federal judge in Florida ruled on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) impending ban on non-compete clauses in employment contracts is likely unlawful and enjoined it. In such a scenario, the judge continued, Congress must have authorized the agency to issue such rules.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting platform for corporate legal departments, to $333 million. Ironclad said it will use the funding to fuel product innovation and scale its digital contracting platform. LawNext: Digital Contracting and the Future of CLM, with Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

LSCA argued that fossil fuel lawyers often wreak havoc on the environment by lobbying against environmental regulations, drafting and enforcing harmful fossil fuel production contracts and assisting climate polluters in avoiding accountability.

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MyCase

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In today’s post, you’ll learn about attorney Stephen Hamilton and his Texas-based criminal defense law firm, Texas Criminal Defense Group. I practice in Texas, and we handle criminal law and also personal injury cases along with some family law matters. I really appreciate your taking the time to talk to me today.

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Law 360

MARCH 12, 2025

The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of cloud computing company Cloud49's lawsuit against rivals RackspaceTechnology and Capgemini, rejecting claims that the companies engaged in tortious interference and trade secrets misappropriation during a Texas state cloud computing contract bid worth more than $58 million.

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The Paralegal Resource

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Texas Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that affects the rights of many Texas contract workers. The decision narrows injured contract workers' right to sue site owners for negligence.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

For years, Wayne LaPierre used charitable dollars to fund his lavish lifestyle, spending millions on luxury travel, expensive clothes, insider contracts, and other perks for himself and his family. After the lawsuit, in 2021, the NRA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reincorporated in Texas.

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Law 360

AUGUST 20, 2024

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked the Federal Trade Commission's looming ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts, setting aside the regulation with a conclusion that it's beyond the agency's authority.

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OilandGasLawyer

JULY 17, 2023

Tiffany Dowell Lashmet and Karli Kaase, with Texas AgriLife Extension, have put together a great resource for landowners considering carbon contracts. It can be found here. Tiffany has regular blog posts providing great information for landowners.

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Law 360

JUNE 3, 2021

Texas-based pharmaceutical supplier McKesson Corp. has settled its $7 million contract dispute with a chain of Florida pharmacies, ending 13 related cases for an undisclosed amount.

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Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2022

A Texas federal judge has ruled that Wells Fargo breached its contract with Occidental Petroleum Corp. by not selling the company's shares on certain agreed-upon dates before the stock market plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, axing the bank's counterclaim for negligence.

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OilandGasLawyer

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

20-33233), granting Chesapeake’s motion to reject its contract to sell gas to ETC Texas Pipeline. The Bankruptcy Code allows a debtor in bankruptcy to “reject” an “executory contract.” ” As the court explained, In simple terms, Sec. ” As the court explained, In simple terms, Sec.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

mostly out of Texas with AZA , Haynes and Boone, and Locke Lord all announcing. Oh, To Be This Guy's Agent : Soccer star has a difficult time with contracts. Bonuses : We got some. Latham joined in on the bonus fun offering stub years some more money too. So we're not exactly dealing with the Algonquin Roundtable over here.

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Patently O

MARCH 7, 2022

Texas attorney Lee Ann Hughes purchased Performance Probiotics, LLC from the company founder Pearcy. Percy sued in Texas state court an won a verdict of almost $1 million for trade secret misappropriation (by PPI) but just $1 against Hughes for breach of attorney fiduciary duty. Hughes , 20-50671, 2022 WL 620238, at *1 (5th Cir.

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Patently O

APRIL 7, 2025

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit issued a significant trade secret remedies decision AMS-OSRAM USA Inc. Renesas Electronics America, Inc. , 2022-2185, 2022-2186 (Fed. To continue reading, become a Patently-O member. Already a member? Simply log in to access the full post. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2024

After a monthslong dispute over an arena football team's decision to drop out of its former league to join a rival, upstart organization, the league said Friday that it had reached a settlement to end its litigation against the breakaway West Texas Desert Hawks.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind, sued Premier Rehab (a Texas rehabilitation facility that receives federal funding) for discriminating based on disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. In Thursday’s ruling in Cummings v.

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OilandGasLawyer

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Last week the Texas Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Nettye Engler Energy, LP v. Bluestone Natural Resources II, LLC, No. 20-0639, affirming the lower court’s ruling that Engler’s royalty interest bears its share of gas gathering and processing costs.

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Law 360

MAY 24, 2022

A Chubb unit should not have to cover the South by Southwest festival for an underlying suit brought by ticket holders seeking refunds, a Texas federal magistrate judge said Tuesday, siding with the insurer on the scope of a contract exclusion.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Texas federal judge tossed a lawsuit alleging the parent company of the NBA's Houston Rockets breached its contract by failing to adequately distribute Rokit Drinks LLC's alcoholic beverages at games and other venues, citing the lack of a written contract and a failure to set the price and quantity of the agreement.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The conflict involves how water is apportioned between New Mexico and Texas under an interstate compact first approved by Congress in the mid-twentieth century. New Mexico centers around the Pecos River, which originates in north-central New Mexico—near Santa Fe—and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Texas contested.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share A pair of challenges to controversial social media laws in Texas and Florida and a dispute over whether to freeze the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce ozone levels across the United States headline the Supreme Court’s February 2024 argument calendar , which was released on Friday morning. Paxton and Moody v. Suski (Feb.

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Law 360

APRIL 30, 2024

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a Texas federal court's $1.6 billion ruling against IBM, finding that Houston-based software company BMC lost out to IBM "fair and square" when IBM fulfilled a request by their mutual client AT&T to replace BMC's software in AT&T's mainframe with IBM's.

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Law 360

JANUARY 6, 2025

million attorney fee request for beating a Connecticut real estate investment firm's breach of contract suit, rejecting the losing side's call for offsets covering fees that Verizon said were never incurred. Verizon's real estate unit asked a Delaware vice chancellor to approve a $1.15

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Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A Connecticut real estate investment firm that sued Verizon for backing out on promises to develop a 70-acre parcel in Irving, Texas, had its entire case thrown out Tuesday after Delaware's Court of Chancery found none of the alleged promises were included in the parties' contracts.

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OilandGasLawyer

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Texas courts are very reluctant to hold that oil and gas lease provisions are ambiguous. The meaning of a contract, deed or lease is a “question of law,” meaning it is decided by a judge, not a jury, based solely on the “four corners” of the instrument. The same holds true for deeds and wills.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"Meeting of the minds" is a phrase that every lawyer remembers spoken in the voice of their 1L contracts professor.

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LLRX

AUGUST 31, 2021

Larson and Hye-Chung Kum are faculty at the school of public health and the law school at Texas A&M University with expertise in health information regulation, data science and online contracts. Cason Schmit , Brian N. They wanted to ask a simple question: Do U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 2, 2025

Spanish company Delclaux Partners SA on Wednesday urged the Eleventh Circuit to vacate its loss in a dispute with Texas-based satellite technology company AST & Science LLC, arguing the federal district court never had jurisdiction over the simple breach of contract dispute.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Jane Cummings sued Texas-based Premier Rehab for discriminating based on her disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, funding recipients are on notice that they are subject to the remedies traditionally available in suits for breach of contract. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. ,

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