Adolfo Pesquera

March 24, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The appellate court found the FDA unlawfully changed its rules without providing notice or opportunity for public comment on standards for fulfilling the requirements of applications by creating a substantive rule in the guise of an internal memorandum.

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March 23, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Every other time, for every reason under the sun—it won't be helpful, there's other information out there, it'll be too stressful—the courts have found ways to evade these (interviews)," Samuel Cooper argued for the petitioner.

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March 23, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The judge is known for his defenses of abortion rights. In 2013 he ruled that abortion restrictions enacted by the state were unconstitutional in the case of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.

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March 22, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"If we agree the parties can call something escrow when they place it in the hands of one side's lawyer ... and that isn't traditional escrow, why should we imply other traditional concepts of escrow?" Justice Jane Bland asked.

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March 21, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"To say the attorney who was acting as an agent for a client gets to turn around and use that shield as a sword against the client doesn't seem to be required by Youngkin v. Hines, or does it?" Justice Evan Young asked.

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March 20, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"The trial court below upended that settled decisional law by refusing to abate the litigation until (plaintiff) submits to an (examination under oath)," said the insurance carriers as relators.

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March 17, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Shame on the lot of them," plaintiffs counsel Robert Hilliard said.

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March 16, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"Here, the agency has barely articulated any basis at all. The paucity of reasoning is especially glaring in the face of the agency's statutory mandate to prioritize safety," the opinion states.

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March 15, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

The $346,612 paid to Weaver was an unlawful taking by Weaver to the deprivation of Ryan and, thus, there is coverage under the Employee Theft provision of the policy, the Fifth District Court of Appeals found.

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March 14, 2023 | Texas Lawyer

"No compelling governmental interest justifies the court's actions, the news media coalition objects, and urges the court to immediately docket notice of the hearing," according to SMU Dedman School of Law First Amendment Clinic.

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