With today’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court selected six cases for oral argument in January 2013.
Among the other orders, the Court denied rehearing in Texas Mutual Insurance Company v. Timothy J. Ruttiger, No. 08-0751 , a 5-4 decision from June in which the Court held that workers compensation insurers did not owe a common-law duty of good faith and fair dealing to workers, supplementing the statutory requirements.
Petitions chosen for argument
January 9, 2013
- The City of Houston, Texas v. Roger Bates, Michael L. Spratt and Douglas Springer, No. 11-0778 – dispute over how to calculate termination benefits paid to firefighters (including whether unpaid leave is computed at overtime rates)
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El Dorado Land Company, L.P. v. City of McKinney, No. 11-0834 – the issue presented: “Is a reversionary interest consisting of a right to repurchase property (a/k/a ‘a right of reentry’) a compensable interest in the property sufficient to support an inverse condemnation claim?”
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In the Matter of L.D.C., a child, No. 12-0032 – when there is a jury-charge error in a juvenile justice case, is harmless error determined under the standard for civil cases or for criminal cases?
January 10, 2013
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Carla Strickland v. Kathryn and Jeremy Medlen, No. 12-0047 – which damages Texas law allows for loss of a pet
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Phillips Petroleum Company, Gpm Gas Corporation, Phillips Gas Marketing Company... v. Royce Yarbrough, No. 12-0198 , consolidated for argument with,
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In re ConocoPhillips Company f/k/a Phillips Petroleum Company, Dcp Midstream, Lp f/k/a Gpm Gas Corporation..., No. 12-0199 :
These petitions involve an ongoing class action that the Court has seen once before (and remanded) in KATHRYN AYLOR BOWDEN, BEULAH POORMAN VICK, OMER F. POORMAN... v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, GPM GAS CORPORATION, PHILLIPS GAS MARKETING COMPANY..., No. 03-0824 .