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On May 23, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court issued a long-awaited opinion in Cromwell v. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC, in which it held that two habendum clauses written in the passive voice...

The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. v. Sheppard, — S.W.3d —, No. 20-0904, 2023 WL 2438927 (Tex. 2023), in which it held that lessees owed...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. EPA, No. 21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act...

On January 1, 2026, Louisiana closed the chapter on its long‑standing pure comparative fault system and moved to a modified approach that bars recovery once a plaintiff is found 51% at fault.

On March 12, 2025, EPA Administrator Zeldin announced that the agency will undertake 31 deregulatory actions to advance President Trump's Day One executive orders and EPA's...

Last October, our team highlighted the tension between the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (the “Act”), and state-based negligence hiring claims against transportation brokers.

The Texas Supreme Court, in Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Undergrounds Services Markham, LLC, — S.W.3d —, No. 22-0878, 2025 WL 1415892 (Tex. May 16, 2025), held that surface owners own subsurface salt caverns...

In 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers...

After two action-packed weeks at the Capitol, Louisiana lawmakers continued to vote down bills this week on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), but did advance a few CCS bills out of committee.

On June 27, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court issued yet another landmark decision: Cactus Water Services, LLC v. COG Operating, LLC.

Due to the government shutdown, which began on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)...

On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's decision that vacated the Surface Transportation Board's ("the Board")...

For more than thirty years, the Housley presumption shaped personal injury litigation in Louisiana. Since Housley v. Cerise (1991)...

On February 13, 2025, the Federal Maritime Commission ("FMC") issued its latest ruling in a saga concerning whether an ocean carrier's assessment of detention and demurrage...

In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to stay a proceeding pending arbitration...

In a recent opinion, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the "Sabine River Authority, State of Louisiana" ("SRA-L") is not entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.

On August 19, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued its merits decision in Sierra Club et al. v. NMFS, API, et al., No. 8:20-cv-03060-DLB, which vacated the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service's ("NMFS") 2020 programmatic.

In a significant decision rendered this week, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York held that written exchanges between a criminal defendant...