Groundwater Litigation

From the Cameron Herald on Friday comes “Debate over ‘end lakes’ won’t end anytime soon”, an article about a local groundwater dispute in which [...]

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Texas Lawyer has a piece this week profiling some of Texas’s “baby lawyers” (their term, not mine) — “First Steps: Baby Lawyers Set Off on [...]

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The Texas Supreme Court released two decisions with today’s order list. The Court also granted review in two other cases.

It may have been “Oilfield [...]

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That’s a question I have been asked about the Texas Supreme Court. The answer is, “When you can convince the Court that you are [...]

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Following up on my earlier post, here are the summaries of Friday’s opinions.

The decisions involved piercing the corporate veil, what constitutes “personal knowledge” [...]

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This afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. — the West Virginia case questioning whether it is a [...]

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I wrote last month about the Texas Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kerlin v. Sauceda about the Texas tolling statute. That post noted the [...]

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This funny picture now appears on the Texas Supreme Court’s home page:

That’s the icon used to denote RSS feeds. And it quietly announces that [...]

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The Court issued decisions in seven cases with today’s order list. One of them was an argued case; the other six were Rule 59.1 [...]

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The Texas Review of Litigation, a student-edited journal at UT Law, is sponsoring a two-day symposium this January focusing on appellate litigation. The title [...]

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As Texas appellate lawyers know, there are two highest courts in Texas — the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals. Their [...]

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Back in June, I wrote about the Texas Supreme Court’s religion clause decision in Pleasant Glade Assembly of God v. Schubert, No. 05-0916, a case [...]

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