/texas?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Texas Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:07:28 +0000 /texas/articles/2350626?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350626 Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration removed to an El Salvador prison in March, is back in the U.S. and charged by a federal grand jury in Tennessee with smuggling unauthorized immigrants, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:01:50 +0000 /texas/articles/2350395?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350395 A Texas federal judge signed off on the end of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against crypto promoter Ian Balina, resolving the dispute over Balina's promotion of so-called SPRK tokens amid the agency's policy pivot on digital assets. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:55:47 +0000 /texas/articles/2350606?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350606 A California federal judge tossed the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit Friday alleging LA Fitness did not accommodate disabled patrons, ruling the government failed to allege a pattern or practice of discrimination or put the gym chain on notice of claims the attorney general determined are of public importance. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:43:03 +0000 /texas/articles/2350463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350463 Texas renewable energy companies dodged another bullet when several bills that would have restricted development died in the state Legislature a second time, but the industry remains on guard for future attempts to more tightly regulate renewable projects. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:48 +0000 /texas/articles/2350542?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350542 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday greenlit a suit accusing a gynecologist of negligently giving a patient a note stating that she required a service dog which later mauled a toddler, saying the alleged negligence is not a malpractice claim, therefore the plaintiffs did not need a medical expert's opinion. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:38:23 +0000 /texas/articles/2350497?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350497 Samsung has sued Chinese smartphone maker TCL and others in Texas federal court, accusing the companies of infringing three patents on OLED display technology.  Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:35:50 +0000 /texas/articles/2350161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350161 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Â鶹´«Ã½360 Real Estate Authority — including where the hotel sector stands at the midyear, which states are trying to curb healthcare investment models and what is fueling the surge in the real estate secondaries market. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:54:22 +0000 /texas/articles/2350579?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350579 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday closed a "gaping jurisdictional loophole" that allowed defendants to challenge jurisdiction in just about any case involving multiple plaintiffs, saying the mere presence of multiple plaintiffs is not enough to invoke appellate review. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:45:04 +0000 /texas/articles/2350595?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350595 A Pennsylvania federal judge has shot down a bid from Clorox Co. and its Brita brand to toss an antitrust lawsuit accusing the companies of engaging in a "patent ambush" to corner the market on home water filters, saying the request was premature. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:38:27 +0000 /texas/articles/2350034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350034 The Texas attorney general's office told the state's Supreme Court that a lower court went too far by blocking an investigation into an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that allegedly had knowledge about outside parties performing gender-affirming care on minors, saying the court undermined the AG's investigative authority. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:16:20 +0000 /texas/articles/2350418?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350418 General Motors asked a New York bankruptcy court to enforce a 2009 Chapter 11 sale order, saying a recently amended consumer data privacy complaint from the Texas attorney general effectively includes successor liability claims it didn't inherit. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:43:29 +0000 /texas/articles/2350538?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350538 The Federal Communications Commission said Friday that a West Texas telecom will have to pay back $5.5 million in federal support because it didn't follow commission rules when documenting its eligibility for the money. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:17 +0000 /texas/articles/2350394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350394 Texas' four-year time limit on attorney discipline applies to "reciprocal" discipline cases, in which a lawyer is sanctioned in Texas after being similarly sanctioned in another state, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /texas/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Â鶹´«Ã½ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:23:07 +0000 /texas/articles/2350160?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350160 Litili, a company that connects expert witnesses to attorneys working on civil cases, has brought a lawsuit in California state court against its former account representative, alleging she took the firm's confidential proprietary business information and used it in her new role at a competing business. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:15:55 +0000 /texas/articles/2350228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350228 A divided Texas First Court of Appeals won't disturb a split decision that revived a dispute between an attorney and a former attorney over a fee-sharing agreement in tobacco litigation, rejecting a litigation finance company's en banc request to keep its trial court victory and prevent the case from being remanded. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:48:14 +0000 /texas/articles/2350356?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350356 Honeywell is taking aim at a Canadian company that has allegedly pursued nearly 200 infringement lawsuits against various businesses based on the same five patents, saying in a federal complaint that the company is trying to scheme its way into a settlement. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:21:42 +0000 /texas/articles/2350469?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350469 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Chart Industries Inc. and Flowserve Corp. merge, Aedifica NV and Cofinimmo NV unite, Sanofi buys Blueprint Medicines Corp., and Kimberly-Clark Corp. sells a majority stake in its international tissue business to Suzano. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:22:54 +0000 /texas/articles/2348834?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2348834 The Georgia unit of Chinese cryptocurrency mining business Bitmain Technologies Ltd. has asked a Texas federal judge to enforce an approximately $11.3 million arbitral award in a breach of contract dispute against a company that failed to appear at the arbitration hearing. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:22:26 +0000 /texas/articles/2350017?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2350017 A Texas plastics company sued the IRS over regulations flagging microcaptive insurance plans as potentially abusive tax avoidance schemes, telling a Texas federal court that the agency exceeded its authority by imposing broad disclosure requirements that could penalize even legitimate arrangements.