Texas

  • September 11, 2024

    E-Discovery Co. CS Disco Hires Seasoned Exec As Ops SVP

    E-discovery software provider CS Disco has picked an experienced business executive to fill the role of senior vice president of operations, one of several senior leadership changes the company has made this year.

  • September 10, 2024

    Verizon, Ericsson Slam 'Outlandish' $847M Patent Verdict

    Verizon and Ericsson have urged a Texas federal judge to erase an $847 million jury verdict in General Access Solutions' wireless network patent suit, arguing that the court hobbled their defense by improperly excluding evidence and allowing General Access to rely on misleading and sometimes false testimony.

  • September 10, 2024

    1st Lyondell Leak Bellwether Settles On Eve Of Trial

    The first bellwether case in a multidistrict litigation created to handle claims stemming from a 2021 gas leak at a LyondellBasell facility in La Porte, Texas, reached a confidential settlement on the eve of trial, a defense attorney confirmed Tuesday.

  • September 10, 2024

    80 Hospitals Sue HHS Over 'Part C Days' Payment Rule

    Scores of hospitals in Texas, California, Ohio, and other states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday in a District of Columbia federal court over denied appeals that had sought additional Medicare payments for inpatient services.

  • September 10, 2024

    Whole Foods, Hain Denied Full 5th Circ. Review In Baby Food Case

    The Fifth Circuit on Monday shut down a bid from grocery store chain Whole Foods and international food company Hain Celestial Group for a rehearing of a panel's decision remanding to state court a suit alleging Hain's baby food caused the mental and physical decline of a toddler.

  • September 10, 2024

    Time Lag Dooms Coach's Retaliation Suit, 5th Circ. Says

    The Fifth Circuit refused to revive a lawsuit from a high school basketball coach who said that reporting that he'd been sexually harassed cost him his coaching gig, saying too much time elapsed between his harassment complaint and the alleged retaliation to infer a connection.

  • September 10, 2024

    Texas Farm Bureau Beats OT Claims In Jury Trial

    Farm insurance agents are not entitled to overtime pay after a jury in Texas federal court found they had not proved they worked more than 40 hours a week, according to a verdict form released as the case was dismissed Tuesday.

  • September 10, 2024

    King & Spalding Expands In Texas With V&E, Skadden Attys

    King & Spalding LLP has strengthened two of its Lone Star State offices with the addition of a veteran litigator from Vinson & Elkins LLP and a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP attorney who specializes in energy transactions, the firm announced Tuesday. 

  • September 10, 2024

    DeSantis Blasts Mass. Suit Over Martha's Vineyard Flights

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shouldn't have to fight "conspiracy theory" claims in Massachusetts over whether the Sunshine State tricked migrants into boarding flights to Martha's Vineyard, the governor said in a sweeping dismissal bid.

  • September 10, 2024

    Womble Bond Eyes Growth, Not Layoffs, With New Tie-Up

    The merger between Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP is not about cutting costs because of mounting competition, the international law firm's U.S. boss told Law360 on Tuesday. It's about growth in the U.S., the U.K. — and beyond.

  • September 10, 2024

    Harris County's Records Portal Still Hampered By Tech Issues

    Harris County's public-facing records portal was running smoothly Tuesday afternoon after a day and a half of technical issues.

  • September 10, 2024

    Distillery Tries To Lasso Booze Trademark, Suit Says

    Dynasty Spirits told a Colorado federal court Monday that Lasso Whiskey is infringing on its Lasso Motel trademark.

  • September 10, 2024

    V&E Launches New Dublin Office In Aviation Finance Push

    Vinson & Elkins LLP has launched a new office in Ireland to provide New York and English law advice to clients on aviation leasing and financing matters.

  • September 10, 2024

    Photographer Aims To Squash Pest Control Co. Use Of Ant Pic

    A biologist and photographer sued a Houston-area pest control company in Texas federal court for copyright infringement alleging the company stole his ant picture to promote their services online.

  • September 10, 2024

    Nelson Mullins Adds Baker Donelson Health Pro In Houston

    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has continued expanding a Houston shop that opened months ago by bringing on a healthcare attorney from Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC whose wide-ranging practice has included representing hospitals and other providers on cybersecurity and related issues.

  • September 10, 2024

    FCC Chair Vows High Court Fight Over Universal Service

    Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel told educators the agency will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a recent Fifth Circuit decision against the Universal Service Fund, the federal program that subsidizes telecom service to low-income and hard-to-reach areas.

  • September 10, 2024

    Brookfield Pledges Over $1B To Ultra-Low Carbon E-Fuels Co.

    Brookfield will pump up to $1.05 billion into Infinium and its electrofuels platform, in what the asset management giant said Tuesday is its first direct sustainable aviation fuels investment.

  • September 10, 2024

    Southwest Plans Board Shakeup Amid Activist Pressure

    Southwest Airlines detailed plans Tuesday to overhaul its board of directors but stood by its chief executive, as the company faces pressure from Elliott Investment Management LP to make leadership changes.

  • September 10, 2024

    Womble Bond Dickinson To Merge With Lewis Roca

    Womble Bond Dickinson said Tuesday that its U.S. business is merging with regional law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP at the start of the new year, the third law firm merger to be announced in the last week.

  • September 09, 2024

    Bancor Protocol Operators Beat Investor Class Action

    A Texas federal judge has dismissed a securities class action against the operators of a cryptocurrency protocol known as the Bancor, agreeing with a magistrate judge's report and recommendation that the plaintiff's challenged transactions don't meet the requirements of a domestic transaction under the so-called Morrison standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • September 09, 2024

    Army Corps Wants Border Fence Deal Rating Dispute Tossed

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has urged the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to dismiss a suit alleging it gave an unfairly low performance rating to a border fence construction contractor on a $789 million deal, arguing the rating was fair and reasonable.

  • September 09, 2024

    Texas Still Not Injured By DHS Parole Program, 5th Circ. Told

    Texas' concerns about the Biden administration restarting a parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans following a fraud investigation did little to move the yardstick on whether the state has standing, intervenors hoping to save the program told the Fifth Circuit.

  • September 09, 2024

    Houston Texans Say Pipeline Co. Owes $1.4M On Suite Lease

    The Houston Texans have accused a local pipeline coating company of falling behind on payments for a box suite inside its stadium, in breach of a five-year lease agreement, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas state court.

  • September 09, 2024

    X Corp. Could Expose Donors To Death Threats, Per Watchdog

    Watchdog Media Matters for America claims that for X Corp. to compel production of its donor lists would breach the First Amendment, saying in a Friday brief in a Texas federal court that if the documents go public, its donors would receive violent threats and other abuse.

  • September 09, 2024

    Texas High Court To Mull Medical Nonprofit's Med Mal Liability

    The Texas Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday over whether a nonprofit health organization can be sued for the alleged medical negligence of one of its physician employees, in a dispute over an allegedly botched brain surgery.

Expert Analysis

  • What Transactional Attys Must Know About Texas Biz Courts

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    As Texas prepares to launch its new business courts, transactional attorneys — especially those involved in commercial, securities and internal governance matters — should keep several issues in mind when considering use of the state's business court system to facilitate deals and settle disputes, say attorneys at Katten.

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    Being An EMT Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While some of my experiences as an emergency medical technician have been unusually painful and searing, the skills I’ve learned — such as triage, empathy and preparedness — are just as useful in my work as a restructuring lawyer, says Marshall Huebner at Davis Polk.

  • 5 Lessons From Ex-Vitol Trader's FCPA Conviction

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    The recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering conviction of former Vitol oil trader Javier Aguilar in a New York federal court provides defense takeaways on issues ranging from the definition of “domestic concern” to jury instruction strategy, says attorney Andrew Feldman.

  • 3 Employer Lessons From NLRB's Complaint Against SpaceX

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    Severance agreements traditionally have included nondisparagement and nondisclosure provisions as a matter of course — but a recent National Labor Relations Board complaint against SpaceX underscores the ongoing efforts to narrow severance agreements at the state and federal levels, say attorneys at Williams & Connolly.

  • Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance

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    A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.

  • Del. IP Ruling May Mark Limitation-By-Limitation Analysis Shift

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    A Delaware federal court's recent ruling in Lindis Biotech v. Amgen, which involved complex technology where the complaint contained neither facts nor a specific allegation directed to a claim limitation, might spark a shift away from requiring a limitation-by-limitation analysis, say Ted Mathias and Ian Swan at Axinn.

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    Teaching Yoga Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Being a yoga instructor has helped me develop my confidence and authenticity, as well as stress management and people skills — all of which have crossed over into my career as an attorney, says Laura Gongaware at Clyde & Co.

  • A Vision For Economic Clerkships In The Legal System

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    As courts handle increasingly complex damages analyses involving vast amounts of data, an economic clerkship program — integrating early-career economists into the judicial system — could improve legal outcomes and provide essential training to clerks, say Mona Birjandi at Data for Decisions and Matt Farber at Secretariat.

  • Measuring Early Impact Of Rule 702 Changes On Patent Cases

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    Since Federal Rule of Evidence 702 was amended to clarify the standards for admitting expert witness testimony five months ago, emerging trends in patent cases suggest that it may be easier to limit or exclude expert testimony, and hold key practice takeaways for attorneys, say Manuel Velez and Nan Zhang at Mayer Brown.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data

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    Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • What's Extraordinary About Challenges To SEC Climate Rule

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    A set of ideologically diverse legal challenges to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's climate disclosure rule have been consolidated in the Eighth Circuit via a seldom-used lottery system, and the unpredictability of this process may drive agencies toward a more cautious future approach to rulemaking, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.

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    Swimming Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Years of participation in swimming events, especially in the open water, have proven to be ideal preparation for appellate arguments in court — just as you must put your trust in the ocean when competing in a swim event, you must do the same with the judicial process, says John Kulewicz at Vorys.

  • Patent Damages Jury Verdicts Aren't Always End Of The Story

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    Recent outcomes demonstrate that patent damages jury verdicts are often challenged and are overturned approximately one-third of the time, and successful verdict challenges typically occur at the appellate level and concern patent validity and infringement, say James Donohue and Marie Sanyal at Charles River.

  • Notable Q1 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

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    Mark Johnson and Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler discuss notable insurance class action decisions from the first quarter of the year ranging from salvage vehicle titling to rate discrimination based on premium-setting software.

  • Social Media Free Speech Issues Are Trending At High Court

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision examining what constitutes state action on social media can be viewed in conjunction with oral arguments in two other cases to indicate that the court sees a need for more clarity regarding how social media usage implicates the First Amendment, say attorneys at Kean Miller.

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