Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, the Fifth Circuit undoes class certification in an investor suit against Anadarko, Roku beats back a $318 million patent infringement claim in Waco, and a Houston appellate court brings an end to a heart surgeon’s defamation lawsuit against ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a man who alleges he was shorted two ounces of beer by Cinemark files a class action lawsuit against the movie chain, an East Texas jury hits Samsung with a $142 million patent infringement verdict in a damages redo trial, and a new SEC trading surveillance initiative draws a constitutional challenge.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously revived the lawsuit that the U.S. Fifth Court of Appeals had dismissed with a one-paragraph ruling. Daniel Charest of Burns Charest, who is the lead trial attorney for the landowners, was confident about the outcome of the case when he was present for oral arguments in January and heard what he viewed as an important admission from Texas Solicitor General Aaron L. Nielson, who was arguing for the state.
The Texas Lawbook spoke to a handful of law firm leaders about whether or how they’re using artificial intelligence technology internally and how they are advising clients on the use of the powerful tool. This week at the Northern District of Texas Bench Bar Conference, attendees will hear from federal judges and practitioners about the ethics of AI during a panel discussion moderated by U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a group of state attorneys general rally behind Texas’ first assistant AG in a disciplinary suit brought by the state bar, AT&T goes with Gibson Dunn in its U.S. Supreme Court appeal over an employee class action alleging violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the city of Dallas faces trial in a civil property rights dispute.
This Saturday, upwards of 300,000 people will line the sides of Allen Parkway just west of downtown Houston to take in what is called the world’s largest art car parade. The Lawbook spoke with three attorneys who have participated in the parade about why they chose to turn their vehicles into mobile pieces of art and why the event is one they’ve stayed involved with year after year.
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In this edition of Litigation Roundup, split panels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit hit pause on the transfer of a lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s plan to cap credit card late fees and nix a nearly $240,000 sanction against the former CEO of Highland Capital Management. In lower courts, Texas reaches a $6.6 million settlement over a 2019 petrochemical fire and Charif Souki is found by a bankruptcy judge to owe at least $100 million to his creditors.
Just east of Austin, Martin Marietta Materials and TXI Operations operate a sand and gravel mine on the banks of the Colorado River. Their neighbor across the river, on the northern bank, is Good River Farms, a 377-acre pecan farm containing about 8,000 trees that has been owned and operated by the Wimberly family since 1959. This lawsuit was spawned from a major rain event — described as a 120-year flood — that hit the area on Oct. 30, 2015.
A doctrine intended to keep courts from second-guessing official actions of foreign governments was front-and-center during oral arguments Tuesday before a Fifth Circuit panel tasked with deciding whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a family that alleges a work of art sold under duress to a Nazi art dealer in the 1930s belongs to them and not the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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