September 4, 2026
This Week at the Supreme Court of Texas
0 opinions · 12 cases taken up · 0 notable orders · 13 routine orders
Opinions Issued
No full opinions were issued this week.
Cases Taken Up
Granted for review, set for oral argument, or rehearing granted—not yet decided.
24-0958·Petition For Review
- Does the Water Code or the Administrative Procedure Act set the deadline for suing over a groundwater district's permitting decision?
- Did the court of appeals even have jurisdiction over this interlocutory appeal in the first place?
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25-0274·Petition For Review
- Does an LLC's buy-sell provision let a member condition a buyout offer on return of the other member's unreturned capital contribution, or does Section 12.2 allow only the purchase and sale of "Membership Interest"?
- Can a party recover Chapter 38 attorney's fees when the only relief obtained on a breach-of-contract claim is a specific-performance injunction rather than damages?
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25-0338·Petition For Review
- Must a defendant seeking summary judgment on limitations in a latent-injury case show that a doctor told the plaintiffs of a "likely" causal link, or can a family's knowledge, medical notes and a class-action opt-out show the claim accrued more than two years before suit?
- Did the summary-judgment record as a whole establish that, more than two years before the family sued the NCAA over their father's CTE, a reasonable person would have linked his decline to college football?
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25-0759·Petition For Review
- Should the Court overrule In re City of Georgetown and hold attorney-client privilege isn't "other law" that overrides Public Information Act disclosure, or, if privilege still applies, narrow it so it doesn't shield a purely factual investigation with no legal advice?
- Did the district waive privilege when a senior official publicly disclosed the withheld report's conclusions?
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25-1045·Petition For Review
- Under Government Code section 2253.078(a), does a public work contract terminate, and the one-year limitations period on a performance-bond claim begin, when the owner terminates the contractor's right to proceed and demands performance from the surety?
- Or does the contract, which the court of appeals held includes the bond, survive until the surety's own conduct under the bond ends, so that a suit filed 14 months after the county's termination notice is timely?
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25-1077·Petition For Review
- Whether a contract that restricts an at-will employee's ability to change employers is a "restraint of trade" subject to reasonableness review, even if it is not a formal noncompete.
- Whether an at-will employee's resignation can be a "breach" supporting damages, and whether a $20,000 reimbursement provision is enforceable without proof that it was a reasonable forecast of loss.
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25-1108·Petition For Review
- Does civil barratry under Government Code section 82.0651 turn on what the soliciting lawyer or advertiser knew or should have known about the audience's need for legal services, or on whether the people addressed actually had an existing or imminent legal need?
- Does a safety training that precedes a legal-services sales pitch count as a "particular occurrence or event" under Penal Code section 38.01, and do attendees with no shown need for the services have standing to recover statutory damages?
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25-1116·Mandamus
- Is a brother whose only stake in his sister's separate trusts is a default remainder that arises if she dies without descendants and without an effective appointment a "beneficiary" or "interested person" with a right to a court-ordered accounting under Texas Property Code section 113.151?
- Can a trustee obtain mandamus against an accounting order on the ground that the compelled preparation and disclosure of trust information cannot be undone on appeal, or is an ordinary appeal after final judgment an adequate remedy?
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26-0152·Mandamus
- Does attorney immunity bar claims by a co-subject of a criminal investigation against the lawyers of another subject who allegedly misused information shared under an oral joint defense agreement, or were the two sides not sufficiently adverse for immunity to apply?
- Does entering a joint defense agreement create a fiduciary duty to the other parties that attorney immunity cannot defeat, and can the lawyers get mandamus from the denial of a Rule 91a motion to dismiss?
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26-0242·Mandamus
- May a trial court enforce an arbitrator's subpoena to a settled non-party for more than 40 years of financial, entity and tax records without a proportionality, relevance and undue-burden analysis and without protecting the non-party from undue expense?
- Does the parties' earlier settlement and release of accounting and records claims bar the discovery, or is it ordinary trust-related discovery that a beneficiary and current trustee is entitled to for her malpractice claim?
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26-0373·Mandamus
- Can a district court nullify a court of appeals' final mandate ordering disclosure of grand-juror names under the Public Information Act by ordering the district attorney to return the records to the court and sealing them as judicial "personnel information"?
- Does this Court's mandamus jurisdiction reach a district attorney directly, or only the district judge, and is mandamus appropriate given the competing interest in grand-juror privacy?
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26-0467·Mandamus
- May a qui tam relator sue under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act when it is undisputed that the relator itself suffered no injury, or does it lack constitutional standing, and can it rely on the State's injury as an assignee?
- Does the Act's qui tam provision, which lets a private party proceed for the State without the State's participation, violate the separation of powers, and is mandamus an available remedy or is an appeal after final judgment adequate?
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Notable Orders
Otherwise routine—a denial, dismissal, etc.—but a Justice filed a separate statement.
No notable orders this week.
Routine Orders
Denials, dismissals, rehearing denied, argument scheduling, abatements, and similar rulings.
Denied Motions for Rehearing (8)
- 25-0863—S. Cornerstone Inc. v. Crown Colony Improvement Ass'n
- 26-0126—In re S.P.A.T.
- 26-0155—Jones Lang Lasalle Brokerage, Inc. v. Ekss Realty, L.L.C.
- 26-0580—Lovings v. Am. Zurich Ins. Co.
- 26-0582—In re O.E.S.
- 26-0618—Ruiz v. Amdre
- 26-0029—In re Garcia
- 26-0590—In re Bolton
Denied Petitions for Review (1)
Dismissed Petitions for Writ of Mandamus (1)
Abated Causes (1)
- 24-0953—Lattimore Materials Corp. v. Trinity Indus. Leasing Co.
Reset for Oral Argument (2)
- 25-0564—San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper v. Tex. Comm'n on Env't Quality & Max Midstream, LLC
- 26-0085—Tex. Tech Univ. Health Sci. Ctr. v. Mohrman
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