Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
In a case closely monitored by oil and gas interests, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that contract clauses designed to perpetuate royalty interests from lease-to-lease can violate the rule against perpetuities. But the outcome of the case itself is less explicit, as Janet Elliott, who has been following the case, explains.
The City of Fort Worth's decades-old struggle with the "fuzzy animal" exception to state gaming laws entered a new phase Friday when a unanimous Texas Supreme Court sent its case back to the Second Court of Appeals. The state's highest court asked the lower court to make the constitutionality of Fort Worth game rooms less...well, fuzzy. Janet Elliott explains.
The custody dispute was closely watched for its potential implications to allow challenges to other final custody rulings. It also attracted attention for the lineup of high-powered legal talent involved in the appeal. Janet Elliott has the details.
UPDATED: The Texas Office of Court Administration has announced that the website that serves the Texas judiciary has been the victim of a ransomware attack. Updated to include comments to The Lawbook by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht.
The Dallas to Houston high-speed rail project won a key legal battle Thursday. Up next? Potentially the Texas Supreme Court.
Four prominent trial organizations representing more than 10,000 lawyers in Texas filed a brief Friday asking the Texas Supreme Court to reverse an opinion it issued two weeks ago that tossed out sanctions against Dallas lawyer Bill Brewer for allegedly trying to taint the jury pool in one of his cases. “This opinion appears to set a new and disturbing standard," the brief states.
Texas-born Mithun Mansinghani will be making his first appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court next week as Oklahoma's Solicitor General. Since the case will be argued via teleconference he won't actually be appearing, but that doesn't make the case any less important, or the pressure any less intense. Tony Mauro profiles Mansinghani and what's at stake in the case.
Your dog or your 4-year-old are cute additions to the office Zoom conference, but if you happen to be arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court anytime soon, you might want to get out of the house. Come Monday, the court will be taking their arguments by teleconference and the experience will be...different. We asked Dallas trial lawyer Mark Werbner for his advice on adapting the chance of a lifetime to the Age of Social Distance.
Amicus involvement has grown steadily in numbers and importance at the Texas Supreme Court, according to a five-year study by Haynes and Boone. This article examines the trends and sources of amicus filings at the state's high court.
Any other day, a plaintiff would be thrilled that the Texas Supreme Court upheld a $40 million jury verdict in their favor. But Highland Capital is no ordinary plaintiff and its fraud case against Credit Suisse over a 2007 Las Vegas residential real estate project has been far from run-of-the-mill.
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