Yesterday’s Austin American-Statesman has a feature article delving into the background of a pending Texas Supreme Court case — Exxon Corp. v. Emerald Oil & [...]

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This looks to be another slow holiday week at the Court. The Court’s public calendar indicates that it is open today but will be [...]

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The Court issued an exceptionally short order list this week, disposing of a single mandamus petition and issuing its annual year-end order formally carrying [...]

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The Court’s public calendar shows it to be observing the state holidays on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. 1 The calendar also [...]

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The Texas Supreme Court issued three opinions with today’s order list. The headliners were a products-liability decision that changes two key definitions in the [...]

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The Texas Supreme Court’s decision this June in Westbrook v. Penley, 231 S.W.3d 389 (Tex. 2007) [No. 04-0838] is the subject of this case note [...]

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According to a news release earlier this week that had escaped my attention, former Justice James Baker’s law firm (Hughes & Luce) is merging with [...]

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The brief is available for download from a Civil Procedure blog hosted by two (other) Baylor law professors.

The general thrust of Professor Beal’s argument is [...]

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It will be a white Christmas whenever this flurry of briefs gets filed.

The Court requested full briefing in at least sixteen cases at its conference [...]

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On Monday, the Court has its last scheduled private conference for 2007. Any petitions granted or denied, opinions finalized, or motions disposed at [...]

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When the Texas Supreme Court started posting an online calendar,1 I was excited. The calendar showed a full set of conference dates for the [...]

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A wide variety of activity in today’s order list. Two merits opinions, one granted case, one dismissal of a granted petition as having been [...]

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