9000 Airport v. Hegar
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April 07, 2025
Split 5th Circ. Undoes Injunction On Texas Strip Club Fee Law
The Fifth Circuit on Monday reversed an injunction barring the Texas comptroller from enforcing a state law imposing fees on strip clubs that allow on-site alcohol consumption, saying in a split unpublished opinion that a Houston club challenging the law was bound by a 2011 decision that upheld the law.
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September 04, 2024
2011 Case Bars Houston Strip Club's Fee Row, 5th Circ. Told
The Texas Comptroller told a Fifth Circuit panel Wednesday that a Houston strip club's challenge to a new state law that would increase a fee imposed on customers of sexually oriented businesses is barred by a decade-old court decision upholding the legislature's initial enactment of the fee.
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January 01, 2024
5 Texas Cases To Watch In 2024
Several high-profile Texas cases will move through the courts in 2024, including Attorney General Ken Paxton's securities fraud case and a retaliation lawsuit brought by four of Paxton's former-aides-turned-whistleblowers. The first case in the Astroworld litigation is also expected to go to trial as various challenges to laws passed during the Texas legislative session make their way through courts across the Lone Star State.