5/11/2026 2:30:10 PM A Reminder from the Fifteenth Court: Mandamus Requires More Than a Big Issue By Andrew Gould In In re Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 15-25-00207-CV (Tex. App.—15th Apr. 30, 2026), a divided Fifteenth Court of Appeals reminded...
4/27/2026 7:28:52 PM 30 Days Means 30 Days: The Supreme Court Tightens the Removal Clock By Andrew Gould In Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel, decided April 22, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court made a practical point unmistakably clear: If a case is...
4/13/2026 6:02:19 PM The Fifth Circuit Reminds Litigants: A Good Appeal Starts Before the Verdict By Andrew Gould In In the Matter of South Coast Supply Company, No. 25-20176 (Richman, Duncan, Oldham, JJ.), the Fifth Circuit delivered a...
3/27/2026 3:29:20 PM Fifteenth Court Flags a Bigger Jurisdictional Question: When One Qualifying Claim Brings the Whole Appeal With It By Andrew Gould Many might have missed last week's opinion by the Fifteenth Court of Appeals in Texas Department of Insurance v. Thomas, which arose from...
3/24/2026 5:06:33 PM Fifth Circuit Considers Waning Role of Administrative Agency Tribunals By Fraser Holmes In Friday's decision in Intuit, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, the Fifth Circuit considered a question with wide-ranging implications:...
3/17/2026 3:19:58 PM Texas Supreme Court Revisits Express Negligence and Comparative Indemnity By Andrew Gould In Friday's 5-4 decision in S&B Engineers & Constructors, Ltd. v. Scallon Controls, Inc., the Supreme Court of Texas addressed an...
3/11/2026 2:27:41 PM Supreme Court Narrows “Arm-of-the-State” Immunity for State-Created Corporations By Fraser Holmes The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp. clarifies when a state-created entity can claim...
3/4/2026 7:16:24 PM March Madness, Meet Motion Practice: Texas Adds a Summary Judgment Shot Clock By Andrew Gould Just in time for March Madness, Texas has put summary judgment on a shot clock.Effective March 1, 2026 (for motions filed on or after...
2/28/2026 5:55:48 PM Fifth Circuit Explains How (Not) to Use AI in Briefing By Andrew Gould Joining the ever-increasing ranks of courts across the country, the Fifth Circuit recently confronted the problem of AI‑hallucinated...
2/18/2026 2:21:54 PM Fifteenth Court Clarifies When Business Court Jurisdiction Disappears By Andrew Gould In last week's opinion in In re ColossusBets Limited, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals offered a clear illustration of how Texas’ new...