The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals during September 2024. The summaries are an overview; please review the entire opinion. Subsequent histories are current as of October 9, 2024. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Court affirms where party fails to rebut presumption of sufficient notice of a hearing. St. George Affordable Auto, LLC d/b/a Skyline …
Texas Supreme Court Update November 2024
The following are summaries of selected opinions issued by the Texas Supreme Court in September 2024. These summaries are prepared by court staff as a courtesy and are not a substitute for the actual opinions. The summaries are overviews of the opinions; please review the entire opinions. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Administrative Procedure Act Tex. Dep’t of State Health Servs. v. Kensington …
District & County Court Trial Verdicts November 2024
Editor’s Note: The monthly jury trial verdicts update is first published through Bar Code and the Austin Bar app. Download the app today on either the App Store or the Google Play Store. CIVIL Robert Lindsay Duncan and Molly Duncan v. Estate of Cheryl Wheeler Sanders and Estate of Robert Reed Sanders Cause No: D-1… To view the rest of this …
Federal Civil Update October 2024
The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Fifth Circuit in August 2024. The summaries are overviews of particular aspects of the opinions; please review the entire opinions. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Federal agency lacked statutory authority to promulgate decisional rules for insurance rate arbitrators. Tex. Med. Ass’n v. U.S. Dep’t of Health & Hum. Servs., 110 F.4th 762 …
Third Court of Appeals Civil Update October 2024
The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals during August 2024. The summaries are an overview; please review the entire opinion. Subsequent histories are current as of Sept. 13, 2024. TRIAL PROCEDURE: Commercial-speech exemption barred TCPA dismissal. Carpenter v. Daspit Law Firm, PLLC, No. 03-22-00466-CV (Tex. App.—Austin Aug. 14, 2024, no pet. h.) …
Third Court of Appeals Criminal Update October 2024
The following is a summary of selected criminal opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals from February 2024. The summary is an overview; please review the entire opinions. The subsequent history is current as of Sept. 5, 2024. LESSER-INCLUDED OFFENSES: Assault on a public servant vs. resisting arrest. Resisting arrest was not a lesser-included offense of assault on a …
District & County Court Jury Trial Verdicts October 2024
Editor’s Note: The monthly jury trial verdicts update is first published through Bar Code and the Austin Bar app. Download the app today on either the App Store or the Google Play Store. CIVIL Fortunate Payne and Josselyn Martinez v. Cynthia Owens Cause No: D-1-GN-22-002136 Judge: Daniella Deseta Lyttle, 261st Civ… To view the rest of this article, please log …
Federal Civil Update September 2024
The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Fifth Circuit in June 2024. The summaries are overviews of particular aspects of the opinions; please review the entire opinions. CONTRACTS: Force majeure provision in natural gas supply contract did not require showing that performance is impossible. MIECO, LLC v. Pioneer Nat. Res. USA, 2024 WL 3418718 (5th Cir. …
Third Court of Appeals Civil Update September 2024
The following are summaries of selected civil opinions issued by the Third Court of Appeals during June and July 2024. The summaries are overviews; please review the entire opinions. Subsequent histories are current as of Aug. 12, 2024. FAMILY LAW: Court grants mandamus relief in contempt proceeding. In re Kozinn, No. 03-23-00748-CV (Tex. App.—Austin June 6, 2024, orig. proceeding) (mem. …
Third Court of Appeals Criminal Update September 2024
The following is a summary of a selected criminal opinion issued by the Third Court of Appeals in January 2024. The summary is an overview; please review the entire opinion. Subsequent history is current as of Aug. 6, 2024. TRIAL TESTIMONY — LICENSING STATUS OF WITNESS, RELIABILITY OF WITNESS, RELIABILITY OF OUTCRY WITNESSS, AND “BACKDOOR HEARSAY”: Trial court did not …





