Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Longtime appellate practitioner joins Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Austin office to lead the firm’s state appellate practice. Ryan Clinton brings experience from the Texas Attorney General’s Office and private practice.
Asked & Answered is a new standing feature The Texas Lawbook will bring readers every other week, highlighting the work of leading Texas lawyers and offering insight into their lives outside the courtroom. In this edition, we sit down with Trey Cox, co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s global litigation practice group and co-partner in charge of its Dallas office.
Cox has won some big verdicts recently and, with another trial on his calendar in October, he plans to keep the momentum going.
Andrew Gould started a new job Monday as the leader of Hicks Johnson’s appellate practice in Houston.
Chief Judge Reed O’Connor assumed his new role on Monday. Judge David Godbey served in that role for three years and will take senior status next month.
Three federal district courts in Texas saw their judgments affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Tuesday. The Fifth Circuit determined the district courts did not abuse their discretion in granting preliminary injunctions for SpaceX, Energy Transfer and Findhelp halting administrative proceedings before the NLRB while they pursue constitutional challenges to the agency’s structure.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Texas loses an appeal to the Fifth Circuit, universities battle over alleged trademark infringement, a religious society must pay delinquent taxes after not filing for exemption, and farmers throw a water fight with a Dallas hedge fund manager.
The first lawsuit in the aftermath of the Fourth of July Kerr County floods was filed in Kerr County District Court. The family of a woman who died in the flooding alleges an RV park committed negligence and is seeking a jury trial and damages.
An apartment complex damaged by Hurricane Harvey sees a reversal in a constitutional takings case that the city of Houston shouldn’t have denied its request for a repair permit. The case returns to the Southern District for further proceedings to compensate the apartment complex.
A settlement between Match Group and the Federal Trade Commission will resolve the dating website’s alleged misleading practices. The Dallas-based company has agreed to pay $14 million and clarify its “guarantees.”
Asked & Answered is a new standing feature The Texas Lawbook will bring readers twice a month, highlighting the work of leading Texas lawyers and offering insight into their lives outside the courtroom. In this edition, Alexa Shrake sits down with Vinson & Elkins partner Quentin Smith, who discussed securing an $80 million breach of contract verdict for Huntsman Chemicals in Louisiana and representing Oncor Electric in litigation stemming from Winter Storm Uri — as well as the only brand of jelly beans worthy of the war room.
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