Michelle Casady

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday, in an 8-1 ruling, denied a petition for review from two residents challenging Houston’s policy of giving same-sex spouses of city employees the same benefits as different-sex spouses.

Balch & Bingham LLP has hired a former Foley & Lardner LLP trial partner to lead its litigation practice in Texas.

ExxonMobil Oil Corp. and a unit of Shell PLC have voluntarily dropped their claims against one another in a dispute over the nine-figure acquisition of 248 Landmark Industries gas stations in Texas.

A Texas judge on Tuesday granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit the Commission for Lawyer Discipline brought against the lead prosecutor in the capital murder case of Alfred Dewayne Brown, who was declared actually innocent after spending nine years on death row.

A Texas federal jury awarded energy exploration and production company Antero Resources Corp. $11.8 million in damages Thursday afternoon after finding a former high-level employee accepted kickbacks from a Texas businessman in exchange for lucrative contracts related to the company’s West Virginia…

A Texas federal judge who “candidly revealed his disdain for antitrust law” to the parties in a private antitrust lawsuit against Visa Inc., even suggesting that Standard Oil Co. wasn’t an actual monopoly, won’t be presiding over the dispute anymore, the Fifth Circuit has decided.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower appellate court’s ruling and unanimously rejected the state comptroller’s reading of the tax code, siding with Sirius XM Radio in its fight to get a $2.5 million franchise tax refund.

A Black farmers’ association encouraged a Fifth Circuit panel Monday to overturn a Texas judge’s order denying their bid to join a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s debt relief program for minority farmers, arguing that the agency’s history of racial discrimination prevents it…

Claims by a former Texas A&M booster that the school’s fundraising arm, the 12th Man Foundation, broke promises to give endowed donors the “best available” seats at Kyle Field after a $485 million renovation of the football stadium cannot be brought as a class action, a state appellate court has…

A Texas federal judge agreed Thursday to delay a trial originally set for mid-February in a lawsuit that accuses KBR Inc. of violating the False Claims Act when a former employee engaged in a kickback scheme with a subcontractor, warning the parties this will be the only continuance allowed.

Google LLC was sued by the state of Texas on Wednesday for allegedly violating state law by having radio disc jockeys broadcast “firsthand testimonials” praising the Pixel 4 phone before the phone had been released or used by the DJs.

A monthlong jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas has ended with a mixed bag ruling after the panel convicted one man for his role in a $28 million health care kickback scheme, acquitted another and deadlocked on a conspiracy charge for a third defendant.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday sided with ExxonMobil Corp. in a personal injury suit stemming from a fire and explosion and determined a trial court should have granted the oil giant’s discovery requests for the amounts and rates that medical providers accepted from a majority of their patients.

A Texas appellate court on Saturday blocked a Houston-area trial judge’s order compelling a Memorial Hermann Health System hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug used on humans and animals.

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a virtual jury trial that was slated to begin Wednesday in a $100 million personal injury suit while it mulls whether a fuel company can demand an in-person jury trial.

Midstream resource management company Targa Channelview LLC will have to return $129 million plus interest that energy company Vitol Americas Corp. paid it to build a crude oil storage and processing facility, after a Texas state court ruled that Targa breached a construction agreement.