/texas?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Texas Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:58:11 +0000 /texas/articles/2371280?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371280 In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:45:36 +0000 /texas/articles/2370813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2370813 Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart dismissed most of the 50 petitions for inter partes review addressed in her latest decisions over discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:59:50 +0000 /texas/articles/2372533?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372533 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into how law firms are winning the succession game, and the Trump administration's efforts to cut red tape for data center projects. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:26:26 +0000 /texas/articles/2372400?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372400 The D.C. Circuit on Friday backed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to limit its review of a Texas pipeline to a 1,000-foot section near the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the agency had reasonably explained why a broader review wasn't required. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:19:07 +0000 /texas/articles/2372527?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372527 Hedge fund Highland Capital Management has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to safeguard some of the key parties in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy from liability and review a Fifth Circuit decision that narrowed the bankruptcy court's "gatekeeping" powers to determine who can be sued. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:19:03 +0000 /texas/articles/2372482?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372482 A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:01:44 +0000 /texas/articles/2371762?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371762 Lamborghini has told a Texas federal court that a case brought by an Italian auto racing engineering firm alleging the sports carmaker stole steering wheel trade secrets is best left to Italian courts and is part of a long-running business dispute in that country. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:59 +0000 /texas/articles/2372274?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372274 The Federal Circuit on Friday denied Fintiv Inc.'s request to delay its Monday trial against Apple over a patent for storing virtual credit cards on mobile devices for contactless payments. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:58:44 +0000 /texas/articles/2372215?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372215 Two newly unveiled mergers involving special purpose acquisition companies will aim to take a nuclear energy company and an Italian e-grocery operation public on U.S. exchanges at a combined value of nearly $500 million. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:55:40 +0000 /texas/articles/2372549?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372549 Texas would establish a permanent cap on increases in the appraised value of real property other than residence homesteads for property tax purposes if voters approve a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the cap, as part of legislation filed in the state House of Representatives. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /texas/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:51:42 +0000 /texas/articles/2370076?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2370076 A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:19:37 +0000 /texas/articles/2372313?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372313 The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a handful of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that found claims across four patents on increasing network communication speed owned by Israeli tech company Bright Data were invalid. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:28:40 +0000 /texas/articles/2372275?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2372275 A Texas bankruptcy judge signed off Friday on the going-concern sale of fiber network provider Everstream, which plans to use proceeds from the $384.6 million sale of its business to exit Chapter 11. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:23:01 +0000 /texas/articles/2371835?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371835 A legal watchdog group Thursday lodged bar complaints against a trio of U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, accusing them of making misleading and false statements in court filings while defending the Trump administration in litigation over its attempt to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:06:01 +0000 /texas/articles/2371240?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371240 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday ruled that defendants facing only fines can be eligible for pretrial habeas corpus relief, saying complaints, preliminary convictions and appellate bonds can constitute "restraint" under state law. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:48:19 +0000 /texas/articles/2371833?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371833 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has asked the Fifth Circuit to uphold its indemnification win against an environmental remediation company in connection with a decade-old Louisiana kickback suit, writing that "one who makes his own bed must lie in it." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:58:19 +0000 /texas/articles/2371795?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371795 A Texas federal judge shot down American Airlines' bid to stay two claims in a suit accusing the airline of infringement for its use of hardware that allows for internet connection on flights, saying the airline failed to show it was merely a passive user of the technology. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:19:52 +0000 /texas/articles/2371843?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371843 Two companies that mine and process sand for fracking have filed for bankruptcy in Texas, one estimating it had at least $50 million in debt and the other estimating at least $100 million, and asked to undergo a joint Chapter 11 in response to a liquidity crunch and issues with their secured lender. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:49:16 +0000 /texas/articles/2371285?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2371285 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected a death row inmate's habeas corpus petition, finding that although he claimed new evidence shows his victim's death during a robbery was unintentional, the information wouldn't have altered his conviction or sentence.