Appellate Roundup: Exxon Loses Fight For $1.5B Tax Refund, Prank Mail Emotional Distress Suit Tossed And More

Appellate courts in Texas this week booted an emotional distress lawsuit against a North Carolina company that sells prank gifts, affirmed that Dallas County owes $33 million in a takings dispute and more. 

The Fifth Circuit was busy, too, issuing rulings denying Exxon Mobil’s request for a $1.5 billion tax refund and ordering a new sentence be given to a man who posted on Facebook that he paid a friend who had COVID-19 to lick everything inside two HEB stores.