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? Read full breakdown
25-0338· Petition For Review
Must a doctor have told a plaintiff of a "likely" causal link before a latent-injury discovery-rule defense can be resolved on summary judgment? Did the summary-judgment record show the family knew enough, more than two years before suing, to start the limitations clock regardless? Read full breakdown
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? If privilege still applies, should it be narrowed so it doesn't shield a purely factual investigation that contains no legal advice? Did the district waive privilege when a senior official publicly disclosed the withheld report's conclusions? Read full breakdown
25-1045· Petition For Review
What counts as "termination of the public work contract" for starting the one-year limitations period on a performance-bond claim against a surety? Did the county's termination notice trigger that one-year clock, barring a suit filed 14 months later? Read full breakdown
25-1108· Petition For Review
Is civil-barratry liability judged by what the solicitor knew or should have known, or by what the recipient actually needed? Does "solicit employment" require an existing legal problem, or does a "particular occurrence" (like a safety training) suffice? Do plaintiffs with no shown legal need for the services have standing to sue for barratry at all? Read full breakdown
25-1116· Mandamus
Can a family member with only a remote, contingent interest in one sub-trust compel the trustee to produce an accounting for it? Read full breakdown
26-0152· Mandamus
Does attorney immunity shield lawyers who coordinated a joint defense with a co-investigation-target's separate counsel, from suit by that co-target? Does entering a joint defense agreement create a fiduciary duty running to the other side's clients regardless of immunity? Read full breakdown
26-0242· Mandamus
Is a third-party subpoena for 40-plus years of a non-party's financial and tax records enforceable without a proportionality/undue-burden analysis? Does the parties' prior settlement release bar this later discovery? Read full breakdown
26-0373· Mandamus
Can a trial court nullify a binding appellate mandate ordering disclosure of public records by re-sealing them as "judicial records" instead? Does mandamus reach a district attorney directly, or only the presiding judge? Read full breakdown
26-0467· Mandamus
Do courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over a qui tam claim when it's undisputed the plaintiff itself suffered no injury? Does the Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act's qui tam provision violate separation of powers by letting a private party control litigation brought in the State's name? Read full breakdown
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