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• New CVSG; Exxon well-plugging cases to be reheard; a (rare) improvident grant; four new grants [orders Nov. 20, 2009]

  Today’s Texas Supreme Court order list had something for everybody. The Court: decided a class certification issue, resolved a question about landowners’ duties to recreational users of their property, and applied a recent holding about…

• On the docket: Texas Open Beaches Act; mold coverage; pleading a taking

  The Texas Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments this morning in three cases. One of the cases is Severance v. Patterson, a certified question from a Fifth Circuit case attacking the constitutionality of the…

• Case: Statute of Repose in Medical Malpractice in Texas

  Texas’s Solicitor General has just filed an amicus brief defending the constitutionality of Texas’s 10-year statute of repose for medical malpractice claims. 1 The case is Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio, Ltd. v. Emmanelene…

• On the docket: Suing to enforce a city referendum; med mal experts; jurisdiction over corporate officers

  The Texas Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments this morning in three cases. Who (if anyone) has standing to sue a city to enforce a referendum? Carroll Robinson, et al. v. Bill White, City…

• Google wades into free legal research (for Texas, too!)

  I’ve written before about how to use Google’s normal search index to find unpublished opinions in Texas. Google has now formally added legal opinions to another of its products — Google Scholar — promising new…

• Winning (on appeal) isn’t everything: Massey Coal and Kelo disappoint the winners

  It’s sometimes easy to forget that winning in the Supreme Court — even the U.S. Supreme Court — doesn’t always get you what you want. This week brought news about the aftermath of the landmark…

• No opinions or petition grants [order list for Nov. 13, 2009]

  The end of this short Veteran’s Day week brought a quiet order list from the Texas Supreme Court, in which no petitions were granted and no opinions were issued. Next week brings a private conference…

• Does evidence of fraudulent intent also show causation?

  Aquaplex, Inc. v. Rancho La Valencia, Inc., No. 08-0280 (Tex. Oct. 30, 2009) (DB) Over at the Reverse and Render blog, Mike Northrup has a post about the Texas Supreme Court’s recent Aquaplex decision. This…

• No opinions [order list for November 6, 2009]

  Today the Texas Supreme Court released a quiet order list. The Court did not issue any opinions or grant any petitions for review. The Court is scheduled to hold a private conference next Tuesday.

• Fifth Circuit says that departing lawyers are only conflicted if they actually acquired material information

  I wrote yesterday about a pending Fifth Circuit case about the “departing-lawyer rule” — determining which conflicts accompany a lawyer who leaves a large law firm. That was fast. Today, the Fifth Circuit decided the…