Adolfo Pesquera

January 17, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

Writing for the panel, Fifth Circuit Judge James E. Graves Jr. said the court must determine whether the five categories of costs were losses incurred solely as a result of the system failure.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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January 17, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

"The fact that the jury awarded only a small fraction of Ravgen's damages claim—less than 15%—and rejected their willfulness claim is an indication that the jury correctly viewed Ravgen's case as a huge overreach," lead defense attorney Michael Summersgill said.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read

January 16, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

The judge told the commission he was unaware of the June 2023 letter of Inquiry, a claim the commission found disingenuous.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

January 16, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

"I cannot see why any Texas court should order someone who has purportedly received child pornography to do anything other than provide it to law enforcement," Texas Supreme Court Justice Evan Young wrote in the dissent.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

January 12, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

Two incumbent judges and two challengers to incumbents had their primary ballot applications contested in courts.

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January 11, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

The disagreement stems from a section of the licensing agreement stating in paragraph two the royalty rate will not exceed a half-percent for products that "detect Lyme disease in combination with one other veterinary diagnostic test," but paragraph three states a royalty rate of 2.5% for products that "detect Lyme disease in combination with one or more veterinary diagnostic products."

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

January 10, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

The way USAA claims the statute works is that the trigger for criminal liability and the deprivation of property rights is the filing of the Owner Retained Report with the DMV, Letot's attorney Anne Johnson said.

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4 minute read

January 09, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

Michael V. Powell of Locke Lord, who argued for the city of Conroe, said the municipality invoked mediation and the river authority refused to go to mediation.

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4 minute read

January 08, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

Whistleblower plaintiffs' attorneys Joseph Knight and T.J. Turner told the Third District that the agreement the attorney general seeks to enforce "was expressly contingent on events that never happened."

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4 minute read

January 05, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

"This case was so important to me and the entire Baker Botts team because of the significance, not just to Duane but to all the others who faced sexual abuse by powerful men," said lead counsel Michael S. Goldberg.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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