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Texas Supreme Court statistics for 2020
This past year presented some unique challenges for the judiciary, and specifically for the Supreme Court of Texas. The court confronted a pandemic, a ransomeware attack, and some unusual [...]
Authenticating Public Records
Cases involving questions on the admissibility of evidence rarely rise to the level of importance that the Texas Supreme Court gets involved. Yet these questions routinely arise in the [...]
Superseding Prejudgment Interest
At a recent continuing education seminar, one of the presenters stated as a fact that amounts awarded in a judgment for prejudgment interest do not need to be included [...]
Interlocutory Appeals: Appeal Now or Later
Imagine that your trial counsel informs you that the trial judge has just made a significant adverse ruling against you, but then he tells you that you could [...]
What is Important to the State’s Jurisprudence?
Two years ago, I noted that the data shows that the Texas Supreme Court grants a disproportionate number of petitions for review that come through certain intermediate appellate courts. [...]
Texas Supreme Court Jurisdiction over Granted Petitions
The Supreme Court of Texas handed down an opinion in Regent Care of San Antonio, L.P. v. Detrick in early May. The main holding in the case addresses the application [...]
“Opinions,” “Memorandum Opinions,” and Texas Supreme Court Review
For many years after the Texas Supreme Court adopted rules that divided the opinions issued by the intermediate courts of appeals into "opinions" and "memorandum opinions," many appellate practitioners [...]
Section 18.001 Affidavits: There’s a Storm Brewing…
Often one of the biggest disputes at trial relates to the value of services that a claimant seeks to recover from the opposing party. At least for routine cases, [...]
2019 Courts of Appeals Reversal Rates
I've run the numbers on the reversal rates for the intermediate appellate courts in Texas for the calendar year 2019. The overall reversal rate for the year was 77%. [...]
2019 Texas Supreme Court Numbers are in…
I am crunching the numbers for opinion dispositions by the Supreme Court of Texas for the calendar year 2019. I expect to have a few blog posts showing how [...]
