Supreme Court of Texas Blog

The Texas Supreme Court issued six decisions with today’s order list. 

Medical-malpractice sanctions

Three of today’s six decisions involved the question whether a defendant in a medical-malpractice suit can immediately appeal the trial court’s refusal to award sanctions when the plaintiffs nonsuit a case. The Court ultimately held that, yes, such an order was subject to [...]

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With today’s order list, the Texas Supreme Court issued 11 decisions.

Medical Malpractice

A glance at the list of cases shows a strong medical theme — and, indeed, nine are medical-malpractice cases. In Lewis v. Funderburk, No. 06-0518, the Court decided a key question about interlocutory appeals of inadequate expert reports that had divided the courts [...]

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The court’s order list for this week is available here.

The Court issued two opinions, one a per curiam and the other authored by Justice Brister. In Ansell Health Care Products & Becton, Dickinson, and Co. v. Owens & Minor, Inc., and Minor Medical, Inc., No. 06-0386, the court issued a per curiam opinion reversing the [...]

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Last week, I noted that the absence of an order list on Good Friday created a very long gap between the Court’s conference and its next order list. 1

Today, the Court showed it has put that extra time to good work — issuing nineteen merits opinions with this order list.2 It looks like 9 [...]

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After trickling out just one briefing request on Wednesday [here] and another on Thursday [here], the Court quietly issued fifteen more briefing requests sometime on Good Friday.1

The case of personal interest to the most Texas lawyers may be Abbott v. State Bar of Texas, No. 07-0836, from 03-06-00592-CV. COA Opinion. This is an [...]

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An email from the Court this morning has confirmed that there will be no regular order list issued today (Good Friday).

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With today’s order list, the Court did not decide any pending cases or set any new cases for argument.

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Although there were no decisions handed down in today’s order list, the Court did make some changes to its upcoming oral argument calendar. The Court filled out its April 2 argument calendar and assigned two cases (so far) to its April 22, 2008 calendar, when the Court will be sitting at Texas Tech University [...]

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Today, the Texas Supreme Court issued one new decision — a summary application of one of last year’s more divisive insurance cases.

No new petitions were set for oral argument in the April sitting.

Grimes Constr., Inc. v. Great Am. Lloyds Ins. Co., No. 06-0322. Per Curiam Decision. In this duty-to-defend insurance dispute, the Court [...]

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Today, the Texas Supreme Court issued a short order list that included only one opinion — granting the pending motion for rehearing and issuing a new opinion and judgment in El Paso Hospital District v. Texas Health and Human Services Comission.

The order list also denied two other motions for rehearing — Fort Worth Independent [...]

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