Perspectives

The Supreme Court's June 23, 2026, decision in Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe closed the courthouse doors on aiding-and-abetting liability...

As decreed by statute, a notice of removal must be filed “within 30 days after the date the party requesting removal of the action...

For much of the last decade, uncertainty has been one of the most significant risks facing offshore operators. However, the challenge was...

The Trump administration’s decision to merge the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy...

In Texas Crude Energy, LLC v. Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company, LP, the Thirteenth Court of Appeals held that an operator that...

When the Delaware Supreme Court upheld the 2025 amendments to Delaware General Corporation Law Section 144 earlier this year, the...

Denials from the Texas Supreme Court on motions for rehearing tend to be routine procedural dispositions. But on rare occasions, they're...

The Texas Business Court's First Division has ruled that a Rule 202 petition to take a pre-suit deposition qualifies as a removable...

A few months ago, I wrote about In re Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., where a divided Fifteenth Court of Appeals denied mandamus relief...

I know this sounds basic, but it’s a good reminder: If your appellate argument depends on what happened at trial, and you don’t provide...

An Illinois appellate court recently imposed a $15,000 sanction against a petitioner's attorney for submitting briefs riddled with...

Winning at trial is not the same as winning the case. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals’ August 18, 2026 opinion in Patriot Contracting,...