Is the Texas Business Court Constitutional?
"Questions still linger about whether the new court is consistent with the Texas Constitution," write Thomas R. Phillips and Matthew M. Hilderbrand.
October 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
7 minute read
Constitutional LawEven though the Texas Business Court is now open and beginning to receive the complex commercial cases it was designed to resolve, questions still linger about whether the new court is consistent with the Texas Constitution. Such doubts, still raised by opponents of the business court even after the Supreme Court's unanimous decision affirming the new Fifteenth Court of Appeals in In re Dallas County, No. 24-0426 (Tex. Aug. 23, 2024), may discourage parties' resort to, and impair public confidence in, the new court.
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