Supreme Court of Texas Decisions 2017
Date: December 22, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0669
Justia Opinion Summary: A taxpayer that conducts business in multiple states must apportion its business revenue among the states in which it does business. Texas Tax Code section 171.106 provides for such apportionment under a single-factor…
Date: December 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0558
Justia Opinion Summary: The San Antonio Department of Family and Protective Services brought suit on behalf of K.S.L., an infant, stating that Mother had tested positive for drugs. Father later admitted he had relapsed. There was an open legal…
Date: December 22, 2017
Docket Number: 17-0044
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother had a history of drug use, had been incarcerated for heroin use, and was observed injecting heroin days before the San Antonio Department of Family and Protective Services filed a petition with respect to…
Date: December 22, 2017
Docket Number: 17-0099
Justia Opinion Summary: The Vethan Law Firm represents Turner in a suit against Lopez, who is represented by Cweren. Vethan hired Wright as a paralegal to work on Turner’s case. Wright exchanged emails with lawyers, communicated with Turner,…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0337
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this workers’ compensation was the meaning of the word “issue” as used in Title 5 of the Labor Code. The trial court ruled that Respondent did not suffer a compensable injury and was therefore not entitled…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0556
Justia Opinion Summary: The Division of Workers’ Compensation has exclusive jurisdiction over statutory and tort claims alleging the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act’s “bona fide offer of employment” process was misused to fabricate grounds for…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0723
Justia Opinion Summary: In this tort suit arising from a real estate transaction, the Supreme Court conditionally granted mandamus relief to Relators from an order denying leave to designate Plaintiffs’ legal advisors as responsible third…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0836
Justia Opinion Summary: If a plaintiff sues both public employees and their employer, section 101.106(e) of the Texas Tort Claims Act requires that the employees be immediately dismissed upon the employer’s motion, and this statutory right to…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0900
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal from a slander-of-title judgment was how the special or economic damages should be measured. When Marc Pieroni and Bonnie Allen-Pieroni divorced, Bonnie was awarded $500,000, which Marc paid in…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0986
Justia Opinion Summary: The trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying Defendants’ motions to dismiss this health care liability action when it read several experts’ reports together to satisfy the requirement of the Texas Medical…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1020
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1020
Justia Opinion Summary: The proceedings involving the forfeiture of two handguns pursuant to Tex. Code Crim. Proc. 18.19 are civil in nature such that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction, but, in this case, conviction for possession of a weapon…
Date: December 15, 2017
Docket Number: 17-0081
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the judgments of the court of appeals and the trial court in this interlocutory appeal arising from Respondent’s lawsuit contesting the validity of a sex offender residency restrictions…
Date: December 8, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0591
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this discovery dispute arising in the context of multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving allegations of underpaid homeowner insurance claims was whether a party’s attorney-billing information is discoverable…
Date: December 8, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0968
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the trial court’s judgment awarding a constructive trust to Longview Energy Company on certain mineral leases and related property and requiring…
Date: October 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0718
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed in part the judgment of the court of appeals, which dismissed Petitioners’ appeal for lack of jurisdiction, holding that Petitioners timely filed their interlocutory appeal. Respondent filed…
Date: October 20, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0944
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal from a Title IV-D associate judge’s order modifying conservatorship and child support for three children was whether the Title IV-D associate judge had authority to enter an order modifying…
Date: September 29, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0509
Justia Opinion Summary: Legally sufficient evidence supported the jury’s conclusion in this case that the negligence of a premature infant’s treating neonatologist, more likely than not, proximately caused the infant’s loss of vision. D.B. was…
Date: September 29, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0790
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the trial court’s denial of a magazine’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s defamation claim under the Texas Citizens…
Date: September 29, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0134
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for Petitioner auto dealer, whom Respondent sued for negligent entrustment, and reinstated summary…
Date: September 29, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0431
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgments of the court of appeals and trial court concluding that an expert witness affidavit in this legal malpractice case was conclusory regarding causation. Plaintiff sued Defendant…
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0320
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0320
Justia Opinion Summary: The Texas Democratic Party sued King Street Patriots (Defendant) alleging noncompliance with Election Code provisions imposing restraints and obligations on “political committees” and corporations. Defendant, in turn,…
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0688
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, the Mayor of Houston directed that same-sex spouses of employees who have been legally married in another jurisdiction be afforded the same benefits as spouses of a heterosexual marriage. Plaintiffs, Houston…
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0921
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0921
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Defendant, the company that constructed a scaffold from which Defendant fell, claiming that Defendant improperly constructed the scaffold and failed to remedy or warn of the dangerous…
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0096
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0096
Justia Opinion Summary: A defendant may obtain dismissal of a suit under the Texas Citizens Participation Act alleging “a communication made in connection with a matter of public concern” even if the defendant denies making such communication.…
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0502
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0502
Justia Opinion Summary: ConocoPhillips Co. and Alma Energy Corp. exchanged oil and gas interests under an exchange agreement in which each indemnified the other for any environmental claims related to the properties received. Alma later filed…
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0642
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0642
Justia Opinion Summary: The employer under the circumstances of this case had no duty to control its employees. J.R.and Carlos worked as cashiers at a convenience store owned by Exxon Mobile Corporation. One evening, Carlos picked a fistfight…
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0886
Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute involving mineral interests pooled for natural gas production, lessors and other stakeholders alleged that the lessee underpaid royalties owed to them under their mineral leases and pooling agreements.…
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0353
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0353
Justia Opinion Summary: In construing an unambiguous deed, the parties’ intent is paramount, and that intent is determined by conducting a careful and detailed examination of a deed in its entirety rather than applying some default rule that…
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1007
Justia Opinion Summary: Homeowners sued Builder for failing to construct their home in a good and workmanlike manner. Builder’s commercial general liability insurer (Insurer) refused to defend Builder in the suit. Judgment was granted in favor…
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1033
Justia Opinion Summary: This action stemmed from a “without cause” termination of Plaintiff’s five-year employment contract at the end of his third contract year. Plaintiff brought claims against his former employer, its chief executive…
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0848
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0848
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0848
Justia Opinion Summary: Tex. Prop. Code 12.0071, the lis pendens expunction statute, does not legally eradicate coextensive information that may be obtained independently of the information contained in the notice of underlying litigation. Two…
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0882
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0882
Justia Opinion Summary: The dispute arose from a contingency fee agreement (agreement) for legal services. Attorneys filed suit against Client seeking a judgment that would include an ownership interest in a business partially formed by Client…
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0046
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from an allegedly forged home-equity loan. Plaintiff sued the lenders, bringing several claims, including statutory fraud and violations of the Texas Finance Code and Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.…
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0075
Date: June 16, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0075
Justia Opinion Summary: In this admiralty law case, a certain vessel - taken out of service, subjected to a twenty-month conversion process, and unable to engage in transportation during the entirety of the claimant’s onboard employment - was…
Date: June 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0591
Date: June 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0591
Justia Opinion Summary: A party’s attorney-billing information is normally not discoverable when the party challenges an opposing party’s attorney-fee request as unreasonable or unnecessary but neither uses its own attorney fees as a comparator…
Date: June 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0909
Justia Opinion Summary: An expert report required by the Texas Medical Liability Act must address proximate cause. Plaintiff brought this health care liability claim against Hospital and others for the death of Yolanda Iris Flores. To satisfy…
Date: June 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0968
Justia Opinion Summary: Company sued two of its directors and entities associated with them after discovering that one of the entities had purchased mineral leases in an area where Company had been investigating the possibility of buying…
Date: June 9, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0078
Justia Opinion Summary: The trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying Defendant’s motion to dismiss based on the sufficiency of a certificate of merit supplied by Plaintiff. Plaintiff, a water supply corporation, contracted with…
Date: June 9, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0229
Justia Opinion Summary: Darin Spassoff and 6 Tool, LLC, formerly known as Dallas Dodgers Baseball Club, LLC (the Dodgers), sued Stephen Bedford for libel and business disparagement, among other claims. The claims arose from Bedford’s act of…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0240
Justia Opinion Summary: When Respondent’s employer received a report that Respondent failed an employment-related drug test, the employer ceased assigning Respondent any work. Respondent filed this lawsuit against his employer, WHM Custom…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0403
Justia Opinion Summary: While the Supreme Court was asked in this case to recognize tortious interference with an inheritance as a viable cause of action in Texas, the court was not persuaded to consider it because Petitioners and…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0717
Justia Opinion Summary: The court of appeals misapplied the rule that, at trial, a presumption operates to establish a fact until rebutted but not in summary judgment proceedings. Petitioner sued Respondents (the Railway) for the wrongful…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0819
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury awarded Plaintiff future lost profits based on Defendants’ failure to comply with their covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit. The jury also awarded Plaintiff exemplary damages and attorney fees.…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0905
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court took the opportunity in these consolidated mandamus proceedings to provide further clarity regarding electronically stored information (ESI) discovery. In this dispute, the requesting party sought ESI…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0155
Justia Opinion Summary: In dispute in this case were 1991 deeds purporting to pass title of all the grantors’ mineral interests in Harrison County to Petitioners. In 2011, the grantors deed to Respondent the same interests they had conveyed to…
Date: May 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0613
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners, energy companies, owned four natural gas compressor stations and a metering station outside the town of Dish. In 2011, the town and eighteen of its residents sued the energy companies, alleging trespass and…
Date: May 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0910
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent was a party to an oil and gas lease that restricted its use of the surface estate and required it to drill from off-site locations when feasible. Briscoe Ranch, Inc. owed an adjacent surface estate and agreed…
Date: May 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0993
Justia Opinion Summary: Galveston County Commissioners Court may set a salary range for a county judicial employee while letting Galveston County district judges decide if compensation within that range is reasonable. While the judicial branch…
Date: May 19, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0007
Justia Opinion Summary: Certain minority shareholders filed suit in a Texas court alleging dilution of equity interests. Defendants responded by invoking a forum-selection clause designating Delaware as the proper forum for disputes arising out…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0635
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0635
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0635
Justia Opinion Summary: Plasma Fab, LLC obtained a general liability insurance policy from Scottsdale Insurance Company and financed the policy with BankDirect Capital Finance, LLC. The agreement between BankDirect and Plasma Fab granted…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0732
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue was whether a private university that operates a state-authorized police department is a “governmental unit” for purposes of Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 51.014(a)(8), which provides for an interlocutory appeal…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0763
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this family law dispute was whether a mediated settlement agreement (MSA) entered into the parties after nearly two years of divorce proceedings partitioned a discretionary employee bonus Husband received…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0803
Justia Opinion Summary: Waiver of a nonwaiver provision cannot be anchored in the same conduct the parties specifically agreed would not give rise to a waiver of contract rights. The long-term tenant in this forcible-detainer action frequently…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0844
Justia Opinion Summary: A plaintiff who was not a party to a written contract was not permitted to enforce the agreement as a third-party beneficiary. DTSG, Ltd. filed suit against First Bank. Richard Brumitt intervened as an additional…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0214
Justia Opinion Summary: Paul Green, a former bus monitor for Dallas County Schools (DCS), was terminated because he admitted to “urinating on [himself] and in a water bottle while onboard [a] school bus[.]” Green filed this lawsuit, alleging…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0346
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that several members of the Harris County Appraisal Review Board were presently or formerly employed by the Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD) under provisions of the Texas Unemployment…
Date: May 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0373
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue was whether a newly-elected district court judge or the former judge he or she replaced may file findings of fact following a bench trial over which the former judge presided before his or her term expired. The…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 14-0819
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 14-0819
Justia Opinion Summary: When Cadena Comercial USA Corp., a company formed to operate convenience stores, sought a retailer’s permit to sell alcohol, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) protested, arguing that, if the permit were…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 14-0979
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent, who owned a ranch, sued Petitioner, which produced natural gas on the ranch, for underpayment of royalties and underproduction of its lease. The parties resolved their dispute with two agreements that…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0123
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0123
Justia Opinion Summary: Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. 150.002 provides that if an expert affidavit in a lawsuit or arbitration for damages arising out of the provision of professional services by licensed or registered professionals is not…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0338
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was how the harm likely to result from a malicious prosecution should be evaluated in calculating exemplary damages. The Supreme Court held that the potential harm analysis should focus only on the…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0557
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs sued their former attorneys and the law firm at which they practiced alleging legal malpractice arising from prior litigation. The trial court granted summary judgment in Defendants’ favor without specifying…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0569
Justia Opinion Summary: After BP America Production turned of the well valve to a gas well, Red Deer Resources, LLC, the top-lease holder, filed suit, asking the trial court to declare that BP’s lease had terminated. The jury found that the…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0575
Justia Opinion Summary: Laura Murphy, who at the relevant period worked as an independent practitioner under contract with West Texas OB Anesthesia, filed claims against El Paso Healthcare System, d/b/a Las Palmas Medical Center, for statutory…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0610
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether a resident physician was entitled to dismissal of a malpractice claim on grounds that she was an employee of a governmental unit. Shana Lenoir died after receiving prenatal care at the…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0687
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0687
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0687
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether the Commerce Clause’s limitations on a state’s power to tax interstate commerce bar property taxes levied on natural gas held in Texas without a destination while awaiting future resale…
Date: April 28, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0054
Justia Opinion Summary: Bartush-Schnitzius Foods Co., a food-product manufacturer, entered into an agreement with Cimco Refrigeration, Inc., a refrigeration contractor, to install a new refrigeration system. When disputes arose over the…
Date: April 7, 2017
Docket Number: 14-0721
Justia Opinion Summary: After Hurricane Ike struck Galveston island, Insured contracted her Insurer and reported that the storm had damaged her home. Insurer determined that its policy covered some of the damage but declined to pay Insured…
Date: April 7, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0217
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent, a Texas Tech professor and associate dean, sued Petitioner, a colleague, for defamation after he was passed over for promotion. Petitioner filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that the Tort Claims…
Date: April 7, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0225
Justia Opinion Summary: T-4 permit to Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC to obtain common-carrier status, which would give it eminent domain authority pursuant to the Natural Resources Code. Denbury Green, which was formed to build and operate a…
Date: March 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0188
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1992, Shields Brothers, Inc. sued the Engelman Irrigation District, a governmental entity, alleging that Engelman had breached a contract to deliver water to Shields. Engelman alleged in its defense that it had…
Date: March 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0708
Justia Opinion Summary: The First Pentecostal Church of Beaumont entrusted over one million dollars for safekeeping to The Lamb Law Firm, P.C., and the firm deposited the money into its trust account. In just over one year, the church’s money…
Date: March 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0790
Date: March 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0790
Justia Opinion Summary: D Magazine published an article that identified Janay Rosenthal as someone who “has figured out how to get food stamps while living in the lap of luxury.” Rosenthal sued D Magazine for defamation and other causes of…
Date: March 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0083
Justia Opinion Summary: Several related nonresident corporate defendants entered into an agreement with Texas companies to settle a New York lawsuit. In the underlying suit, Plaintiff, a nonresident, alleged that, by virtue of the settlement…
Date: March 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0248
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case the trial court entered judgment terminating a bottom lease based on jury findings that the lease failed to produce in paying quantities over a specified period of time. The court of appeals reversed and…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0232
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0232
Justia Opinion Summary: Landowner hired Architects to design a commercial retail project and oversee construction. Landowner subsequently sued, alleging breach of contract and negligence in the project’s design and negligence. With its original…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0270
Justia Opinion Summary: ExxonMobile Corporation conducted oil and gas drilling and production operations on the Lazy R Ranch for nearly sixty years. After ExxonMobil sold its operations, the Ranch filed suit, claiming soil and groundwater…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0299
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1994, the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (the Therapists Board) adopted a rule listing specific therapeutic services that licensed marriage and family therapists (MFTs) may provide.…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0317
Justia Opinion Summary: Before resigning his director and treasurer positions with Briar Green, Robert Primo wrote himself two checks from Briar Green’s account totaling approximately $100,000. Briar Green made a claim for the alleged loss with…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0404
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a complaint against her former employer (Defendant), claiming assault, sexual assault, and battery, among other causes of action. Defendant moved for summary judgment on all claims, arguing, in part, that…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0407
Justia Opinion Summary: Travis Coleman was a terminal technician formerly employed by ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (EMPCo). Coleman sued EMPCo and his two former supervisors for defamation, alleging that the statements by his supervisors about…
Date: February 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0492
Justia Opinion Summary: In appraising real property, an appraisal district may choose to divide a single tract into multiple accounts for various reasons. Valero Refining-Texas L.P. (Valero), the property owner in this case, protested some, but…
Date: February 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0073
Date: February 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0073
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Dallas sought relief from two attorney general decisions concluding that the City must disclose confidential attorney-client communications pursuant to public-information requests the City received regarding…
Date: February 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0142
Justia Opinion Summary: An oil-and-gas lessor sued the lessee for failure to pay royalties. The trial court concluded that the lessor’s neighboring landowners were necessary parties to the suit and dismissed the case without prejudice because…
Date: February 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0912
Justia Opinion Summary: Under Chapter 614, Subchapter B of the Texas Government Code, a covered peace officer cannot be disciplined based on a complaint unless certain procedural requirements are met. At issue in this case was whether…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1038
Justia Opinion Summary: During their marriage, Respondent and Petitioner produced one child and a $30 million marital estate. During marriage-dissolution proceedings, the parties executed two agreements settling all issues. The trial court…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0056
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0056
Justia Opinion Summary: Wade Brady sued LeaAnne Klentzman and the West Fort Bend Star (collectively, the media defendants) for libel and libel per se, arguing that a newspaper article portrayed him as “unruly and intoxicated” when he interacted…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0197
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0197
Justia Opinion Summary: Alan Petrie was assaulted and robbed in The Gallery apartment complex’s visitor parking lot. Petrie sued the apartment complex and its owners (collectively, Gallery), alleging that it knew or shown have known about the…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0978
Justia Opinion Summary: Elie and Rhonda Nassar filed a claim with Liberty Mutual Insurance Policy under their homeowners’ policy when their property was damaged by Hurricane Ike. Disputes arose over the value of various items of damaged…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0773
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0773
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0773
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0773
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0773
Justia Opinion Summary: Wallace Hall, a regent for The University of Texas System, filed suit against William McRaven in his official capacity as the System’s Chancellor, for McRaven’s refusal to grant Hall complete access to records containing…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0005
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, the Public Utilities Regulatory Act (PURA) implemented a competitive retail market for electricity in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Each incumbent, vertically integrated electric utility within the…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0225
Justia Opinion Summary: Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC was formed to build and operate a carbon dioxide pipeline known as “the Green Line” as a common carrier in Texas. Denbury Green filed a permit application with the Texas Railroad…
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