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CDT Roundup: 11 Deals, 8 Firms, 65 Lawyers, $3.2B
Following a seeming renaissance in 2021, IPO activity seems to have slowed thus far in 2022, according to several indicators. Still, Texas dealmakers say they expect the IPO markets to stay healthy — particularly in the energy industry. The CDT Roundup has some numbers, as well as last week’s deals and the names of lawyers behind them.
Southwest Airlines Brings Its Baggage to the Supreme Court
At issue is a decades-long dispute over the meaning of a clause in the FAA. Lawyers for the Dallas-based airline go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to assert that its baggage loaders and supervisors can be required to undergo arbitration when they file employment complaints.
Jury Awards Port of Houston $22M in Equipment Damage Case
A Houston federal jury found Friday that French agricultural merchant Louis Dreyfus Co. breached a contract with the Port of Houston Authority when it returned a damaged grain elevator and other equipment it had leased to handle its Houston-based exports.
BMC-IBM Trial Closes with a Menu of Damages Options
Lawyers in a showdown between BMC Software and IBM concluded Thursday their cases with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential damages for presiding judge Gray Miller to ponder over whether IBM committed fraud. Natalie Posgate was in the courtroom for closing arguments.
Oil Exporter’s Oil-Spill Fund Payment an ‘Unconstitutional Export Tax,’ Court Holds. But the Decision Goes Without Precedent
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has decided that payments by oil exporters into an oil-spill remediation fund are unconstitutional export taxes. But the holding held not so much because one judge concurred only in the judgment and one dissented, evidently robbing the decision of precedential value.
Kirkland Achieves the Uncommon, a Defense Win in a Waco Patent Case
An infringement claim against Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular Fortnite video game, is dismissed for improper venue by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright.
Status of Bar Wars: The Reincarnation?
The fact that a petition seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of a challenge to the mandatory Texas bar-association dues has been lumped together with similar disputes from Michigan and Oklahoma suggests the high court may have decided to tackle, once and for all, the extent to which state associations can compel lawyers to pay dues that may finance activities with which they disagree.
AZA Associate Sets Precedent in Fifth Circuit for Sexual Harassment Victims
Kelsi Stayart White set new precedent as an associate with the Houston-based AZA firm in the Fifth Circuit when a three-judge panel this month found for her client, a former Houston female firefighter. The unanimous holding broadens sexual harassment protection in part by allowing her complaint to proceed after she discovered an intimate video taken from her laptop had been circulating among her firehouse colleagues for nine years.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 9 Firms, 106 Lawyers, $2.3B
In a week of relatively weak M&A traffic, the increased prominence of healthcare deals is, once again, front and center. The deals these days are not just for healthcare technologies or hospital real estate — the M&A market for professional care itself is becoming abundantly clear. That, and the week’s dealmakers in the CDT Roundup.