Media Matters Taps Susman Godfrey, Gibson Dunn to Sue X Corp. and Elon Musk

Texan Elon Musk, who has seen his net worth plummet hundreds of billions of dollars this month due to a steep decline in Telsa stock, quietly added a new foe last week — Susman Godfrey and Houston partner Justin Nelson — which could be a courtroom-size headache for the world’s wealthiest person. Nelson, who led the Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million victory over Fox News in 2023, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Media Matters against X Corp/Twitter, accusing the social media platform and its owner of abusing the civil justice system to get vengeance against media entities that he blames for his economic losses.

March 17, 2025 Mark Curriden

EDTX Chief Judge Mazzant Carves Up Sherman Docket, Four More Judges Take a Share

On the first day he became the new Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Texas, Amos Mazzant III issued an order that shook up the caseload assignments for the eight judges who serve in that district. Here, we share Chief Judge Mazzant’s answers to a handful of questions The Lawbook posed to him regarding the new order.

March 13, 2025 Michelle Casady

Judge Awards Cardinal Midstream $51.9M in Pipeline Explosion Suit Against Energy Transfer

A judge in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, has determined that Cardinal Midstream is owed $51.9 million in damages from Energy Transfer in a lawsuit stemming from a 2018 gas pipeline explosion.

March 11, 2025 Michelle Casady

Texas’ Business Courts Are Proving Their Supporters Right

Texas’ new system of business courts came with the kind of “fear and trembling” that often accompanies change on such a grand, institutional scale. “What else are courts created for business supposed to do besides favor business,” many worried. But our new business courts have spent the last several months both dispelling those fears and proving why these courts are a smart investment — as much for the public as for litigants.

March 11, 2025 Joshua J. Bennett

Litigation Roundup: Travis County Gets a New Judge

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, a team of Kirkland lawyers gets an early win for a client facing a whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit, a suit stemming from the romance scandal involving former judge David Jones gets trimmed and the Dallas appellate court declines to bring an early end to a barratry lawsuit against a personal injury law firm.

March 11, 2025 Michelle Casady

Court Reporting, Deposition Company Lexitas Sued by Longtime Business Partner

A new lawsuit filed in Harris County Thursday evening accuses litigation support services company Lexitas of systematically breaching an agreement with Houston-based legal video and litigation support company SmartDisk by siphoning off work it was entitled to perform to other entities. 

March 7, 2025 Michelle Casady

IP Lessons Can Help NIL Athletes Protect Millions Under Restrictive NCAA ‘Fair Market’ Proposal

Recent developments in college sports foreshadow a drift away from treating NIL as a set of legal rights freely owned by each student-athlete in favor of a regulated system that may ultimately shortchange NIL value, leaving many current and future college athletes questioning the fate of their financial futures.   

March 7, 2025 Warren McCarty

A $152M Supersedeas Bond in $30.7M Case? Fifth Court of Appeals Hits Pause 

The Fifth Court of Appeals this week granted an emergency motion to stay a trial court’s order that would have required Sun Holdings and affiliated companies to post a more than $150 million supersedeas bond before appealing a $30.7 million jury verdict against it. 

March 6, 2025 Michelle Casady