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Injured Man Gets $9.45M Jury Verdict Against Dallas Hotel - While walking his dog at a hotel in Uptown Dallas, a man fell and suffered serious injuries. A Dallas County jury has awarded him more than $9 million for the incident. June 6, 2025
Winter Storm Uri Victims Ask SCOTX to Reinstate Their Claims - Lawyers for about 20,000 Texans and Texas businesses have asked the Texas Supreme Court to revive their Winter Storm Uri-related lawsuits and allow their negligence claims against power generators such as Luminant, NRG Power and Calpine to go to trial. In court documents filed Thursday, Dallas appellate law expert Ann Saucer told the justices that a 2023 decision by the First Court of Appeals in Houston that the power generators are immune from the Winter Storm Uri lawsuits “relied on invented facts” and “stifles the common law and threatens legal ossification and economic stagnation” and needs to be reversed. (Feb. 2021 AP file photo) June 5, 2025Flowserve, Chart Industries Agree to Combine in $19B Merger - The combination expects to exploit the growing demand in energy and data infrastructure, particularly in the lucrative aftermarket for upgrades in industrial fluid controls. Cravath and Winston & Strawn advised on the deal. June 5, 2025
Holland & Knight Files Motion to Dismiss GWG Trustee’s Fraud Suit - This week, the law firm Holland & Knight and its partner Bill Banowsky asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur to dismiss a bankruptcy trustee’s fraud lawsuit against them for failure to state a claim. Holland & Knight and Banowsky argued the trustee had obscured “the facts upon which it must rely for wrongdoing against defendants in this case.” June 4, 2025
Sunnova Selects Bracewell, Alvarez & Marsal for Bankruptcy Advisors - Residential solar company Sunnova TEP Developer, a subsidiary of Houston-based Sunnova Energy International, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week in the Southern District of Texas. June 4, 2025
V&E, Susman Godfrey Alums Launch Litigation Finance Firm - Lauren Harrison and Mani Walia have clerked for federal appellate judges, practiced at premier law firms and done pioneering work in the world of litigation funding. This week, the duo launched Signal Peak Partners, a Houston-based investment firm that customizes litigation financing, private credit solutions and monetization options for plaintiffs and their lawyers. June 3, 2025
Diamondback/Viper to Acquire Sitio Royalties for $4.1B - The deal adds more than 25,000 royalty acres to Diamondback's Permian inventory and cuts Viper's dividend breakeven to under $20 per barrel WTI. Wachtell, Vinson & Elkins and Gibson Dunn advised on the deal. June 3, 2025
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Legislation Aims to Boost Texas as a Friendly Place to Incorporate and Settle Disputes - A new law makes it more difficult for shareholders to challenge corporate decisions through litigation. A second bill headed to the governor’s desk would enhance the fledgling Texas Business Court’s authority, although lawmakers decided for now against expanding the system to rural Texas. (Photo by Ricardo Garza) June 4, 2025
Report: Judge Gilstrap Again the King of Patent Litigation - Patent infringement litigation has mostly been on the decline across the U.S. for the past three years, but not in the Eastern District of Texas, which has re-established its courts as the preferred destination for disputes regarding patent infringement. A new report by legal analytics firm Lex Machina shows that U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of Marshall was assigned 795 new patent lawsuits in 2024 — six times more than any other federal judge in the U.S. June 3, 2025Expert Voices
What Two Former Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office Heads Want Business Leaders to Know About DOJ Corporate Enforcement in 2025 - The C-suite crowd seems to be letting out a collective sigh of relief at the dawn of a perceived era of decreased enforcement, while compliance officers worry aloud about their businesses moving resources to other parts of the company and letting up on their carefully cultivated “cultures of compliance.” We read the room differently, and we thought it important to share seven reasons why there has never been a more important time to keep your compliance frameworks in place and, if possible, provide even more resources to them. June 2, 2025
