Adolfo Pesquera

June 27, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

By granting immunity to a "purely private" entity without requiring a demonstration of the government's "actual control ... the court undermines this public trust," dissenting Justices Jeffrey Boyd and John Devine wrote.

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June 26, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"The dispute turns on whether Skeels, by signing the 2014 resolution, agreed to allow the founders to redeem his shares on any terms and at any price they may choose. He did not," wrote Justice Phillip Devine.

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June 23, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

Judge Palermo agreed with Baker Botts' arguments that the proposed class failed to satisfy the requirements for class certification set forth by a federal rule.

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June 23, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The victory came for a plaintiff who had established a client breached a licensing agreement.

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June 22, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Two of OPG's biggest customers—accounting for millions in annual revenue for OPG—informed OPG they were moving business from OPG to Titan," the complaint alleges.

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June 21, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

Fleming wants the high court to agree that a take-nothing verdict in his firm's favor in a 2016 trial, Harpst v. Fleming, be binding on the 8,000 plaintiffs in Wilson v. Flemming, his brief on the merits states.

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June 20, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"The main issue from our perspective is we have these things that were trade secrets that would have had an indefinite life as long as we could keep them confidential," plaintiff lead attorney Ryan Baker said.

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June 20, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Under Claiborne, Mckesson cannot be liable for violence unless he encouraged violence. It is not enough that he encouraged or committed unlawful-but-nonviolent actions that preceded violence," Circuit Judge Don R. Willett said in dissent.

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June 16, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"After 20-plus years of trusting you to manage my retirement, my inheritance, my investments, my car, my home in El Paso and most recently my Social Security and Scripps pension; to ultimately be at your mercy with no home of my own," Frank Ahlgren Jr. said.

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June 15, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"We think you will find what is going on here is more like Tesla coming into this courtroom and telling you they own the trade secret of mirrors and headlights because they were putting it in electric cars," defense attorney Weining Bai said.

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