SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a pair of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites. Two trade groups representing social media platforms went to federal court to challenge the laws. Both laws were passed in the wake of the Jan.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. In response to COVID-19, the CDC ordered a nationwide moratorium on residential evictions last fall.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

But earlier this year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened up a new battleground: the home. A few days later, the governor of Texas ordered the state’s Child Protective Services (CPS) to investigate families whose children are in transgender therapy. The attorney general then appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , the Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a Texas court and held that a military veteran could proceed with a lawsuit against his former employer, the Texas Department of Public Safety. A Texas court agreed and dismissed Torres’ suit. Share In Torres v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A US Circuit Court Thursday declared the law preventing those subject to a domestic violence restraining order from owning a gun, unconstitutional. Rahimi , the US Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit found that the law was an unconstitutional restraint on Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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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

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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JURIST

AUGUST 16, 2024

The judge concluded that the relevant statute here, Section 6(g) of the FTC Act, “falls short” of doing so. In July, a federal judge in Texas similarly blocked the FTC from enforcing the rule against a group of plaintiffs, which included the US Chamber of Commerce. Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Law 360

MAY 28, 2025

A Texas appeals court worked to untangle whether one or two contracts were involved in an $11 million park project in Williamson County, Texas, during oral arguments Wednesday, and whether, in turn, the statute of limitations barred the county from suing the insurerforbreach of contract.

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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). Statute of Limitations : Plastronics also had a counterclaim. See Hooks v. 3d 52, 68 (Tex.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Thursday to disturb a federal statute governing the adoption and foster proceedings for Indigenous children in the US. The court issued three findings in its Thursday decision. The court issued three findings in its Thursday decision.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Texas for infringing two patents covering pre-natal genetic tests. So, venue was proper under the narrow venue statute for patent cases, Section 1400(b). So, venue was proper under the narrow venue statute for patent cases, Section 1400(b). Ravgen sued Quest in W.D. Quoting Juniper. Transfer ordered.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Texas appeals court won't toss a defamation suit accusing a former Peloton employee of falsely claiming to company executives and New Jersey police that she was bullied by her workplace acquaintance, an in-house attorney, after finding she can't avail herself of a state statute protecting citizens from retaliatory lawsuits.

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Patently O

MARCH 14, 2021

Texas Judge Albright for his months long delay in deciding defendant’s motions to transfer/dismiss for improper/inconvenient venue. In its decision, the appellate court repeated a prior conclusion that Judge Albright’s approach represented “egregious delay and blatant disregard for precedent.” by Dennis Crouch.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 against a plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for alleged violations of certain federal anti-discrimination laws. Premier Rehab Keller PLLC , the court applied the contract-law inquiry to hold that Cummings could not recover damages for emotional distress.

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Patently O

MAY 28, 2021

We’ve discussed in this space a few times the remarkable lengths Judge Alan Albright has gone to to attract patent cases to his Waco, Texas courtroom. Judge Albright’s efforts have succeeded in large part because his court, the U.S. The LLCs jointly filed infringement suits in Waco against Samsung, LG, Lyft, Uber, and Bumble.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists. The court granted review in United States Postal Service v. The district court agreed and dismissed Whole Foods with prejudice.

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TypeLaw Briefing Insights

MAY 9, 2024

Formatting a brief for a Texas court Filing a compliant, well-formatted brief demonstrates your professionalism, establishes credibility with the court, and ensures that your brief wont be rejected for technical errorssuch as not adhering to specifications around margins, font size and type, citation format, and other formatting details.

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Patently O

JULY 1, 2021

court to a more convenient forum (N.D.Cal.). The underlying actions were filed by a patent holding company known as Ikorongo Texas LLC against Samsung and LG Electronics. Ikorongo Texas is owned by five-individuals led by patent agents Hugh Svendsen & Sarah Svendsen. Ikorongo Texas then sued Samsung and LGE.

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Law 360

JUNE 7, 2024

and Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton each asked a federal court for an early win in their dispute over the state's probe into Spirit's management, with Spirit arguing the state's Request to Examine statute violates the Fourth Amendment, and Paxton arguing it is a constitutionally compliant subpoena. Spirit AeroSystems Inc.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. Tyler Smotherman will graduate from Texas Law Tech in May 2023.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Supreme Court has ruled that victims of discrimination, which is forbidden by four federal statutes, may not sue if the only harm was emotional distress, reports the New York Times. The Supreme Court ruled against Cummings saying that the federal anti-discrimination laws she invoked did not allow suits for such emotional harm.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Nieves v. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, how closely aligned evidence must be to satisfy that exception.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Supreme Court has not yet granted writ of certiorari in any patent cases this term. Still, there are a number of important patent cases pending before the court. Still, there are a number of important patent cases pending before the court. by Dennis Crouch. Lets talk them through. Qualcomm Incorporated , No. 35 U.S.C. §

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The issue comes up in cases where venue is proper and the court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant, but for whatever reason the particular venue chosen by the plaintiff is inconvenient. The shortcut then is to petition for mandamus as soon as the district court grants or denies a motion to transfer. ” 28 U.S.C.

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OilandGasLawyer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in December in Concho Resources v. The trial court sided with Samson’s position, in effect holding that the 1927 deed was limited to 147 acres. The Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi reversed, holding that the deed conveyed all of the land north and west of the road.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. Supreme Court 2022). Ikorongo Texas LLC holds exclusive rights to a set of patents, but only with respect to use of the inventions in counties within the Western District of Texas. This includes McLennan County, home of Waco Texas and Judge Albright’s court. by Dennis Crouch.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Thomas has taken law-office history to a new low, even for the Supreme Court, a body whose special brand of “law chambers history” has prompted multiple critiques and been a source of amusement for generations of scholars and court watchers. Bruen does mark a new low for the court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. And it is the latest in a string of cases pushing the federal courts out of second-guessing state election laws.

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Patently O

AUGUST 3, 2021

Under the statute for patent litigation venue, venue is proper in a judicial district if either (1) the defendant is incorporated in the district or (2) the defendant infringes within the district and also has a “regular and established places of business” in the district. Here, none of the defendants are incorporated in E.D.

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Mondaq

APRIL 25, 2022

In a recently issued taxpayer-favorable opinion, the Texas Supreme Court overturned the court of appeals' decision holding that the state's performance-based sourcing statute for service receipts.

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At the Lectern

JULY 12, 2021

. “It” being today’s Supreme Court’s opinion in Shalabi v. First, the court resolves a statute of limitations issue. ” Thus, the plaintiff’s lawsuit was brought within the applicable two-year statute of limitations when he filed suit on his 20th birthday. .”

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