Law 360

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Despite an uptick in filings in the Texas Business Court's initial months of operation, the docket remains fairly light amid an apparent a wait-and-see approach from some potential litigants, say attorneys at Norton Rose

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The first cases were filed in the Texas Business Court on Tuesday, setting the stage for a new era of litigation in the Lone Star State.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Attorneys filed fewer patent suits in district courts in 2023 than in any year for more than a decade, and the amount of America Invents Act petitions at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board fell to a 10-year low as well. The Western District of Texas also lost its place as the most popular patent litigation venue in the U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

million settlement with families of those injured and killed in the 2017 mass shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. In 2021 a federal district court ruled that the government was partially responsible for the deaths due to negligence. The US Department of Justice Wednesday reached a $144.5

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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Law 360

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Texas business court's fee schedule is unlikely to price potential litigants out, but many questions remain about the efficiency of the new venue's fee schedule, experts told Law360.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2024

Chamber of Commerce asked a Texas federal judge to issue a court order stopping the Federal Trade Commission's new noncompete rule from going into effect while litigation challenging the ban plays out, arguing the rule's enforcement would irreparably harm businesses and their employees.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 18, 2021

“What the Supreme Court Got Right (and Justice Alito Got Wrong) in the Texas ACA Decision: A slightly deeper dive into today’s California v. Texas decision rejecting the effort to turn constitutional litigation into a game of Jenga.” Texas Majority Reject Standing-by-Nonseverability?

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fully remote litigation position with an extensive experience in Texas state court. The post Fiduciary Litigation Opportunity appeared first on Above the Law. Apply within.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday sent a pair of challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites back to the lower courts for another look. The court agreed to send the cases back to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 5th and 11th Circuits.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the technology industry and blocked a controversial Texas law that bars large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the viewpoints they express. When Texas Gov. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fired back, arguing that H.B.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Western District of Texas maintained its title as the busiest court for patent litigation in 2022, patent case filings held steady and appeals of district court patent decisions took a dip last year. patent litigation, with revealing details about the most influential law firms, courts and tactics.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 29, 2024

The post Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Facing Lawsuit Over Pro-Fossil Fuels Law appeared first on Above the Law. Some people just want to watch the world burn.

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Patently O

JUNE 17, 2022

Litigants shouldn’t get to choose the judge who decides their case. Judge shopping, we’ve argued elsewhere , raises concerns about court bias and capture and can make litigation unnecessarily costly and inefficient. This is the second in a new series on venue transfer requests and mandamus at the Federal Circuit.

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

says an intellectual property law firm and a Chinese litigation funder used its confidential information without permission to help Staton Techiya LLC assert patent infringement allegations, telling a Texas federal judge that the conduct demonstrated why the court should add the other companies to Samsung's suit.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled 8-1 that a Texas death row inmate may have his pastor touch him and pray out loud during his execution. His scheduled execution in September 2021 was stayed pending the Supreme Court’s decision. This Court now affords yet another chance for him to delay his execution.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While the new business court in Texas might seem an ideal venue for the numerous oil and gas disputes litigated in that state, many of these cases may remain outside its reach under the rules governing the court's jurisdiction — at least for now, say Conrad Hester and Emily Fitzgerald at Alston & Bird.

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Law 360

JULY 18, 2024

Prolific patent litigator Bill Ramey has pushed back against Microsoft's bid to sanction his law firm in Texas federal court, filing his own sanctions motion that claims the tech giant and its attorney "gleefully" filed an improper declaration in the case to defame him and his firm.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Supreme Court decided Texas v. Texas filed the case directly in the Supreme Court, invoking the court’s original jurisdiction in cases where one state sues another … just as it did on Dec. When some of the water evaporated, Texas said that is should not be responsible for the lost water. The decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a man on death row in Texas can have his pastor touch him and pray out loud while he is being executed. Texas rejected his request, citing security concerns and arguing that he made the request too late. The decision in Ramirez v. Thomas was the lone dissenter.

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Law 360

MAY 12, 2023

The Texas Senate passed a bill on Friday that would create a specialized business court, a measure that received the support of the Lone Star State's governor and chief justice despite questions raised by litigators.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A Dallas business court judge sent a multimillion-dollar energy dispute back to state district court this week, marking the first time a Texas Business Court judge has weighed in on whether cases in existence before the court's opening could be litigated in the new venue.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If parties to a case in Texas' new business court do not agree on whether the court has supplemental jurisdiction over their claims, then those claims may proceed concurrently in another court — creating significant challenges for litigants, and raising questions that have yet to be answered, says Ryan Sullivan at Reichman Jorgensen.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A federal appeals court has removed a federal judge from foster care litigation against the state of Texas, citing her “highly antagonistic demeanor” against the…

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ABA Journal

JUNE 17, 2024

Littler Mendelson told a Texas court last week it is dropping its lawsuit accusing a former associate of uploading confidential law firm documents to her…

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2021

The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced Friday in a press release that it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will reincorporate in Texas. ” It mentions that the move to Texas will enable the nonprofit to start down a new path with more sustained growth and continued success.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A group of lawyers and judges on Friday grappled with how to reconcile the language of a law creating a new statewide business court with the current rules of civil procedure as the Texas Supreme Court works toward issuing official standards for litigators who will practice in the forum beginning next year.

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Patently O

JUNE 26, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit recently denied a petition for mandamus seeking to overturn a district court order transferring a patent case from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California. The administrative difficulties flowing from court congestion 2. In re Haptic, Inc. , 2024-121 (Fed.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Samsung plans to ask a Texas court to force a patent litigation business to disclose communications with litigation funders ahead of a trial next month over whether the tech giant's former in-house counsel stole trade secrets.

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OilandGasLawyer

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Texas courts are very reluctant to hold that oil and gas lease provisions are ambiguous. These instruments affect title to land, and if an instrument is ambiguous it inserts uncertainty into land titles and results in litigation over the parties’ intent using extrinsic evidence, usually before a jury.

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Thursday held in In re: Apple, Inc. Apple moved to transfer the action from the US District Court for the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California pursuant to 28 USC § 1404(a).

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Monday ruled against Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) attempt to resolve its multi-billion dollar litigation over claims that its talcum-based powders were carcinogenic. The decision reversed an early Bankruptcy Court order in favor of J&J.

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HowAppealing

JULY 27, 2022

“Judge With History of Sexist Comments Called Out, Again, by 5th Circuit; Judge Lynn Hughes had issued a lifetime ban against a female litigator after she won an appeal related to comments he made in an earlier case”: Brad Kutner of Texas Lawyer has this report on a ruling that the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Texas presents yet another installment in the decades-long conflict between state gambling regulators and Native American tribes. The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. Share Tuesday’s argument in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Share The Supreme Court rejected a request from Texas inmate Stephen Barbee to postpone his execution, scheduled for Wednesday evening, after a judge ruled that the state was not adequately protecting inmates’ religious rights in the execution chamber. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit lifted Hoyt’s order on Nov.

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