Back in June 2011, Governor Perry signed into law the Texas Citizen Participation Act (codified as Chapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code).

Plaintiff’s suit arises out of the efforts of Debt Recovery Solutions, LLC’s ("DRS") to collect a debt that it purchased from Embarq, based on a delinquent Sprint cellular telephone account that had been opened under Plaintiff’s name.

On January 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided an appeal from a preliminary injunction that had blocked enforcement of Texas’ new abortion informed-consent statute.

The Supreme Court recently had occasion to apply the doctrine in the case of Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., 133 S.Ct. 721.

It's called ransomware, and the city's leading Internet attorney says it is going to become a lot more familiar in the coming months, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

After its initial poor response to the major media firestorm ignited by the deaths and illnesses linked to its products, Blue Bell has made significant steps towards restoring consumer confidence.

The seven-factor test outlined in Ross v. St. Luke's Hospital has been used to definitively determine that a personal injury suffered by someone in a hospital was not a health care liability claim.

The trial court denied the motion, but the court of appeals reversed, holding that Reddic asserted a health care liability claim.

"E-Government" is a buzzword of limited applicability in the real world of roadside truck inspections.

In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit joins other circuits in holding that, following a timely objection, a trial court is required to conduct a Daubert inquiry and make findings on the record.

As the market for craft breweries continues to heat up, brewery owners contemplating a potential sale should keep some key considerations in mind.

On May 3, 2016, New York bankruptcy judge Shelley Chapman issued a judgment in In re Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation which could dramatically shift the balance of power in favor of distressed energy and production companies...

Since their initial release, smartphones have been a hot commodity with intense competition. One particularly contentious issue has been their appearance...

Tax-related identity theft was a hot topic this summer. Since I last blogged about it in May, the NTA released her Fiscal Year 2016 Objectives Report to Congress, alerting us to an upswing in the number of open identity theft cases in IRS inventory.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in Hoskins v. Colonel Clifton Hoskins and Hoskins, Inc., No. 15-0046, that, for the first time, the Texas Arbitration Act provides the exclusive grounds for vacatur of an arbitration award.

Lisa Velasquez Olivarez claimed that a GEO employee sexually assaulted her while she was incarcerated in the Maverick County Detention Center.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, a closely watched Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case.

The district court agreed, the court of appeals reversed, and the Supreme Court accepted the case as one of three class actions on the current docket.

In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit held that Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code does not apply in federal court.

The school district filed a plea to the jurisdiction based upon lack of standing, arguing that because the district voluntarily discontinued its prohibition of religious signs or messages the case had become moot.