https://www.law360.com/texas?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Texas Copyright 2024 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:03:24 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266757?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266757 An executive for a patent-licensing company that's pursuing infringement litigation against numerous restaurants over a patent that lets customers place mobile orders using a real-time menu that can make personalized suggestions accused Starbucks and its Baker Botts LLP attorney in a lawsuit Wednesday of making defamatory statements about him. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:16:29 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265573?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265573 Numerous major companies and industry groups have asked the full Federal Circuit to rule that district judges must carefully scrutinize expert testimony seeking large damages in patent cases and exclude unreliable opinions, rather than allowing juries to decide how much weight to give them. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:44:47 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266672?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266672 X Corp has told a Texas federal judge that government prosecutors were trying to "muzzle" a doctor accused of sharing protected patient information while talking to the press about a hospital's gender-affirming care practices, saying the government was out of line. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:19:51 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266431?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266431 The state of Texas called on the Fifth Circuit to vacate part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency action requiring the state to revise its plan addressing "moderate" nonattainment of ground-level ozone standards for the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio areas, in light of the cities' upgrade to "serious" nonattainment. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:56:03 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266658?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266658 Despite knowing Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" single falsely accused Drake of being a "certified pedophile," Universal Music Group chose to boost the song across radio airwaves by potentially making illicit payments to iHeartMedia, the Canadian rapper alleged in Texas court the same day he made similar allegations in Manhattan. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:39:47 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266613?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266613 Federal health officials are no longer enforcing a rule in Texas that tied funding to contraceptive access for minors, Texas officials told a court Tuesday as it asked to dismiss a suit it had filed against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:59:20 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266444 Texas is leading a coalition of nearly a dozen Republican-led states suing BlackRock Inc. and two other large asset managers for allegedly running an "investment cartel" that takes advantage of their large holdings in publicly traded energy companies to drive up coal prices, a claim that BlackRock has said is "baseless and defies common sense." Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:08:24 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266240?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266240 The Fifth Circuit has rejected the government's blacklisting of Tornado Cash for "its role in laundering virtual currency for malicious cyber actors," saying the cryptocurrency service's immutable smart contracts, or lines of privacy-enabling software code, are not "property" and are therefore unownable and cannot be blocked under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:28:59 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266597?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266597 The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday for its December arguments session, which will include blockbuster questions about the constitutionality of state laws banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors and whether Hungary can be held liable for property stolen during World War II. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:17 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266498?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266498 A Florida attorney is planning to challenge a state appellate decision issued Wednesday that he must turn over stock interest in his law firms to a litigation finance company to help cover tobacco settlement funds, asserting that the ruling must be vacated in light of a recent Texas appellate decision that invalidated an underlying judgment. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:23:18 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266155 A Texas state appellate court has sided with Howard Hughes Corp. and an engineering company in an appeal brought by homeowners who claimed the companies were liable for property damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:04:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266631?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266631 A Texas federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a suit brought by a civil rights attorney who has represented the Texas secession group behind the "Texit" movement, ending litigation over alleged collusion to run up attorney fees against him in a defamation case connected to the group. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:55:45 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266402?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266402 Republican-led states and fossil fuel industry groups fired back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent defense of its rule strengthening standards for mercury and other toxic air emissions at power plants, telling the D.C. Circuit the agency misinterpreted the Clean Air Act's pollution reduction goals. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:26:30 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265818?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265818 A disbarred Lone Star State lawyer must pay more than half a million dollars in sanctions for wide-ranging misconduct in his representation of another attorney, who claimed he used their relationships to "control her life," a state appellate panel said Wednesday. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:32:21 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266143?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266143 An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify a drywall company accused of negligently hiring a man who murdered a house cleaner in a home he was working on in Galveston County, telling a Texas federal court that several policy exclusions preclude coverage. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:21:06 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265589?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265589 The full Fifth Circuit won't review a case filed by a Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup worker claiming that he was left with a chronic health condition after working on the job. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:47:41 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266158?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266158 A Texas appellate court justice said Tuesday that a decision by the court finding that power plants owed nothing to consumers for damages resulting from outages during Winter Storm Uri stifles "growth" in common law, dissenting from his colleagues who denied a motion for the whole court to rehear the case. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:07:09 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266092?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266092 The founder of a California-based logistics and freight forwarding company pled guilty in Texas federal court to a conspiracy-related charge linked to a scheme to illegally ship goods to a blacklisted Chinese company, which changed its name after being added to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:54:38 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266169?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2266169 A coalition of immigration-focused health and legal services providers, advocacy organizations, labor unions, faith communities and others in Pennsylvania released a to-do list for the Biden administration on Tuesday urging "dismantling the deportation machine" as much as possible before President-elect Donald Trump's return to office. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:52:27 +0000 https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265920?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/texas/articles/2265920 A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday laid ground rules for documents and communications to be shared in a messy discovery phase of the Chapter 11 of Red River Talc, Johnson & Johnson's latest liability spinoff, while also saying he wouldn't sanction a Beasley Allen attorney who didn't appear at a deposition last week.