Litigation Roundup: Defamation Case Against Houston Boutique Firm Gets Tossed

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we have details on the outcome of a discrimination lawsuit brought by a Black attorney in Houston who alleges he was kicked out of a bar at the Post Oak Hotel for wearing a “[Mark] Lanier 6.0 Trial Academy Master Class” hat, Whirlpool gets a $25 million trademark infringement win in the Eastern District of Texas, and the Texas Supreme Court passes on hearing a case involving the Judicial Branch Certification Commission’s regulation of licensed court reporters. 

In litigation-adjacent news, at the end of January, Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz announced they had begun accepting applications from “qualified Texans” to fill vacancies on district court benches and in the U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshal offices.