/texas?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Texas Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:14:38 +0000 /texas/articles/2369525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369525 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney perspectives on private real estate investment trusts, national security concerns raised by farmland and a recent California listing that could lead to the state's largest real estate deal using digital currency. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:44:36 +0000 /texas/articles/2369509?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369509 The Texas Supreme Court declined to take up a case dealing with attorney fees in suits where a court defines a legal relationship, but in a Friday opinion one justice wrote that the court will eventually need to address how jurisdiction plays into the issue. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:16:15 +0000 /texas/articles/2368504?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2368504 Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart issued just eight discretionary denial decisions over the last week, including one that addressed arguments tying in the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act for the first time. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:39:46 +0000 /texas/articles/2369585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369585 A life insurance company did not abuse its discretion in discontinuing long-term disability benefits to a former employee of a payroll software provider after a review of updated medical records, the Fifth Circuit said, finding that substantial evidence supported the insurer's decision. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:15:57 +0000 /texas/articles/2369126?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369126 A Texas death row prisoner convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter under the controversial shaken baby syndrome theory has asked the state's top criminal appeals court to halt his upcoming execution, arguing new evidence discredits the diagnosis, his attorney said Friday. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:44:55 +0000 /texas/articles/2369680?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369680 A multimillion-dollar dispute between the current and former owners of the Houston Astros has been settled on the second day of trial. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:23:48 +0000 /texas/articles/2369570?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369570 A Texas appeals court affirmed Thursday a finding that the former owner of a $10 million ranch knew about a roof leak before selling the property to "Yellowstone" creator Taylor Sheridan, but found there was insufficient evidence to back up a jury's damages award and ordered a new trial. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:19:08 +0000 /texas/articles/2369262?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369262 A Texas farmer isn't owed compensation for a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border wall that the government built on her land in 2008, the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:06:19 +0000 /texas/articles/2369481?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369481 A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday ruled that creditors who elected to give releases to non-debtor third parties under prison health care group Wellpath's Chapter 11 plan were not entitled to a release of claims that Wellpath had against them. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:03:18 +0000 /texas/articles/2369561?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369561 A private equity firm that manages the Lone Star Funds hit an upstart rival called Lone Star Capital with a trademark infringement lawsuit in Texas federal court Thursday, accusing the firm of intentionally ripping off its trademarks and logos amid its aggressive marketing blitz in an effort to dupe investors. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:35:40 +0000 /texas/articles/2369633?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369633 A former employee of Whataburger dropped his Fifth Circuit bid to revive a proposed class action alleging mismanagement of an employee 401(k) plan Friday following a Texas federal court's decision tossing the case in November. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:53:24 +0000 /texas/articles/2367839?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2367839 In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:19:29 +0000 /texas/articles/2369381?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369381 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's first assistant penned an email alleging sexual misconduct by a former deputy because he genuinely feared for his safety, according to a bid to dismiss a civil rights complaint filed by two former deputies who claim a conspiracy among officials in the Texas Office of the Attorney General to retaliate against them. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:37:54 +0000 /texas/articles/2369125?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369125 A surety can't escape a county's suit accusing it of breaching a performance bond issued for an $11 million park development project, a Texas appellate court ruled, saying the surety failed to show that a one-year statute of limitations expired before the county filed suit. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:10:16 +0000 /texas/articles/2365021?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2365021 Federal courts repeatedly rebuffed key pillars of President Donald Trump's immigration policy during the first half of the year, with district courts halting efforts to curtail birthright citizenship, restrict asylum at the southern border and deport noncitizens without notice. Law360 looks at some of the most significant immigration litigation developments nearly six months into Trump's second term. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:11:23 +0000 /texas/articles/2369021?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369021 A Utah company says sneaker giant Skechers U.S.A. Inc. is engaged in "massive infringement" of patents for hands-free slip-in shoes, according to a suit filed in Texas federal court. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:55:53 +0000 /texas/articles/2368848?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2368848 A Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday declined to stop automation technology group Exela from exiting Chapter 11 next week, but said he would condition the over $1 billion debt-for-equity swap plan's effectiveness on a roughly 30% recovery rate for its general unsecured claims. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:34:47 +0000 /texas/articles/2368695?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2368695 A split Fifth Circuit panel found that an unauthorized immigrant did not have his due process rights violated when he signed a form that waived his right to judicial review, saying in a Wednesday opinion that a conviction of an aggravated felony did not violate his rights. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:00:07 +0000 /texas/articles/2369142?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369142 A Fifth Circuit panel seemed skeptical of a convicted Dallas fraudster's argument that the jury's learning of his brother's guilty plea in a conspiracy indictment tainted his own case, asking during oral arguments on Thursday how the guilty plea directly implicated him. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:32:36 +0000 /texas/articles/2369131?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2369131 Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. LLC sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday over a recently passed state law that it argues requires the firm to "publicly condemn itself" when its advice for clients reflects certain viewpoints the government disfavors.