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Prelude to the Business Court and 15th Court of Appeals: More Questions Than Answers | Tyler Talbert | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Exploring Procedural Justice | Judge Steve Leben | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Focus Groups as a Trial-Preparation Tool | Elizabeth Larrick | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Tips for Persuasive Legal Writing | Luther Munford | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Winning Cases on Legal Issues Before and During Trial | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Navigating Federal Tort Claims on a National Scale | Tom Jacob | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Why Judges Should Take the Legal Accountability Project Pledge | Judge Doug Nazarian & Aliza Shatzman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Tackling Bullying in the Legal Profession | Scott Stolley | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
How Lawyers Should Approach Implementing AI into Their Practices | Tim Armstrong | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Emerging Ethical Issues For Lawyers Using AI | Derek Bauman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
A Longtime Trial Judge’s View from the Appellate Bench | Justice Gisela Triana | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Inside the Fourth Court of Appeals’ Clerk’s Office | Michael Cruz | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Supersedeas and Other Recent Rule Changes | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Business Courts and Other Highlights of the 88th Texas Legislature | Jerry Bullard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Don’t California My Texas! | Tim Kowal & Jeff Lewis | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Checking in On the 88th Texas Legislature | Jerry Bullard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Jury Charges and Oral Argument | David Keltner | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Legal Writing for the New Generation | Chad Baruch | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE, CO. v. CH LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. - Before Dyk, Chen, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The Federal Circuit reversed...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Huggins v. Manatee Sch Dist - First Amendment, qualified immunity, amending pleadings - Andre v. Clayton Cnty - Atlanta airport random searches, constitutional challenge,...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a summary judgment dismissal of a trade secret misappropriation complaint, finding that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable measures to maintain the secrecy of a...more
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - In December 2018, Sue Perry (“decedent”) passed away following her second lung cancer diagnosis. Her surviving husband and daughters (“plaintiffs”) alleged that she...more
Texas juries are known for awarding “nuclear verdicts” and these awards are growing. Personal injuries —even relatively minor in nature—can result in jury awards creating generational wealth, whereas in the past reasonable...more
In Jiaxing Super Lighting Elec. Appliance, Co. v. CH Lighting Tech. Co., Ltd, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed the judgment in a patent infringement case involving three patents owned by Jiaxing Super...more
Two recent Florida appellate decisions, Bandklayder Development, LLC v. Sabga, and Vuletic Group, LLC v. Malkin, have clarified and reinforced a critical principle in Florida construction law: damages for construction defect...more
The bankruptcy process is often straightforward: the debtor’s debts are discharged, creditors take a haircut of varying degrees, and life moves on. But some bankruptcy proceedings give birth to complicated agreements that...more
Janik v. Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 2025 Pa. Super. 90 (Pa. Super. Apr. 22, 2025) - The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed an order granting a new trial, as the jury was not instructed on the open and obvious...more
$180M oil case lost when Apollo refused to fix expert's flawed damages model. Without expert testimony meant no damages recovery in technical fields. In Apollo Exploration, LLC v. Apache Corporation, No. 11-19-00183-CV, 2025...more
In the recent decision of Byers & Richardson v Chen Ningning (BVIHCMAP2024/0009) ("Byers"), the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal ("COA") considered the scope of the director’s duty to creditors when a company is insolvent or...more
Carranza v. City of Los Angeles, 111 Cal. App. 5th 388 (2025) - Lilian Carranza, an LAPD captain, learned that a photo of a topless woman who looked like but was not Carranza was circulating electronically among LAPD...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a permanent injunction, concluding that the district court properly determined that a party’s violation of a settlement agreement would lead to irreparable harm. Wudi...more
In In Re State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. and Lindsey Nicole Dessart, 712 S.W.3d 53 (Tex. 2025), the Texas Supreme Court clarified the proper procedure for litigating bad faith claims related to uninsured/underinsured...more
In this episode of Don't Take No For An Answer, Lynda A. Bennett and Eric Jesse discuss two New York cases that mark a turning point in allowing policyholders to pursue bad faith claims against their insurers. The cases shift...more
Among the first questions I ask when investigating a lawsuit accusing my client of discriminatory conduct is, “Who made the decision?” The reasons are simple. First, an adverse employment action – like termination,...more
On June 24, 2025, the Supreme Court of Georgia vacated the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision refusing to apply Georgia’s $350,000 damages cap to reduce a $7.2 million award of wrongful death damages in a medical malpractice...more
The reports of the death of Section 10 of the FAA may have been greatly exaggerated. Thursday, a majority of the Eleventh Circuit held in Nalco Co. LLC v. Bonday that an arbitration award was subject to vacatur under Section...more
In Dostart v. Columbia Insurance Group, the Iowa Supreme Court reaffirmed the rule — in Iowa, and many other jurisdictions — that faulty workmanship by a contractor does not constitute an “occurrence” as defined in a standard...more
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, became the latest federal circuit to rule that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bristol-Meyers Squibb...more
Often times, subrogation practitioners take the “kitchen sink” approach when pursuing claims: they name all potentially liable parties under all available legal theories and whittle down from there. With construction defect...more
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) vacated a $300 million damages award because the district court used a flawed verdict form, which included only a single, blanket question as to...more
On May 21, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, reversed a $20 million damages award against Google LLC in a patent infringement dispute with EcoFactor, Inc. EcoFactor, Inc. v....more
ECOFACTOR, INC. V. GOOGLE LLC - Before the en banc court, Moore, Lourie, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, Stoll, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. A district...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Scott v. Miami - probable cause - USA v. Ferretiz-Hernandez - immigration, reentry prohibition, constitutionality - Jekyll Island v. Polygroup Macau - personal jurisdiction,...more