/texas?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Texas Copyright 2025 sa¹ś¼Ź“«Ć½. en-US Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:26:29 +0000 /texas/articles/2411576?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2411576 A Virginia state judge spent two hours Wednesday working through whether VLSI Technology LLC should be able to proceed with its claims that Patent Quality Assurance LLC violated state law during its successful challenge to a VLSI chip patent. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:10:12 +0000 /texas/articles/2420218?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420218 A Texas state jury has awarded more than $10 million to a woman who was shot in the hand at a company-sponsored event that allowed employees and clients to shoot firearms as part of the festivities, with the jury finding the company negligently exposed the woman to a dangerous condition. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:52:13 +0000 /texas/articles/2420440?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420440 Two AIG units have no duty to defend or indemnify a Texas-based firearm retailer accused of contributing to gun violence by selling unfinished components used to assemble what are known as ghost guns, the Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday, saying the underlying claims do not allege harm caused by an accident. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:39:51 +0000 /texas/articles/2420394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420394 The states of Florida and Texas again took aim at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of abortion medication mifepristone, saying in a Tuesday suit that the agency flouted federal law in greenlighting the drug and signing off on several generic versions. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:05:14 +0000 /texas/articles/2420656?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420656 Several Ukrainian civilians told a Texas state court that semiconductor components manufactured by Intel Corp., Texas Instruments Inc. and others ended up in Russian missiles, saying Wednesday the companies negligently allowed their products to flow to the Russian military. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:10:54 +0000 /texas/articles/2420608?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420608 A Texas bankruptcy judge has found that a directors and officers liability insurer was wrong to refuse a reasonable $4.65 million settlement demand from the trustee overseeing the wind-down of former cryptocurrency data miner Compute North Holdings, but that the court can't force the carrier to accept it. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:00:44 +0000 /texas/articles/2420430?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420430 A group of 16 distributors have challenged the sole ownership of two of the largest manufacturers of indoor and outdoor sports courts, saying that placing them under the same parent company created a monopoly ultimately resulting in lower sales and revenues. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:37:07 +0000 /texas/articles/2420106?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420106 A transgender woman is suing Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. and its affiliates in Texas state court, alleging she was sexually assaulted by a security guard who later used hotel records to find her phone number and send unwanted, sexually explicit videos. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:47:27 +0000 /texas/articles/2420138?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420138 Wells Fargo is seeking to shed claims in Texas federal court alleging it turned a blind eye to a convicted former attorney's misuse of client funds held in accounts at the bank, arguing that the victims of the lawyer's fraud failed to show it knew of the misconduct. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:34:06 +0000 /texas/articles/2420631?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420631 A Texas appellateĀ court pressed a company to explain how it seeks to hold Morgan Stanley accountable for an executive's alleged kickback scheme involving $250 million in mineral interests, asking Wednesday how the bank bears responsibility if it didn't take part in the underlying contract. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:41:10 +0000 /texas/articles/2418455?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2418455 After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:07:04 +0000 /texas/articles/2418163?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2418163 Emma Hackney, a Dallas-based finance and banking associate with Jackson Walker LLP, is being remembered for being a hard worker with a positive nature and kindhearted disposition following her death in a car crash last month at the age of 29. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:56:07 +0000 /texas/articles/2420374?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420374 A split Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court's decision undoing a jury verdict that put a home insurer on the hook for a $1 million injury settlement between a man who became a quadriplegic after taking LSD and the owners of the home where he ingested the drugs. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:40:57 +0000 /texas/articles/2420616?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420616 Stone Hilton PLLC attorneys facing a sexual harassment suit from a former employee defended their move to subpoena two high-ranking members of the Texas Office of the Attorney General this week, saying their "hands are tied" by the ex-staffer's use of an email related to the purported misconduct. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:07:48 +0000 /texas/articles/2420059?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420059 As the Fifth Circuit's recent decision in Nova Scotia Health Employees' Pension Plan v. McDermott International illustrates, intraclass conflicts can determine the fate of a class action ā€” and such conflicts can be surprisingly difficult to identify, says Andrew Faisman, a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:18:53 +0000 /texas/articles/2420092?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420092 Ohio and 28 other states have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that a federal trucking industry law can't shield freight brokers from certain state-based injury claims, arguing Congress did not intend to undermine states' authority over regulating road safety. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:08:04 +0000 /texas/articles/2419987?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2419987 The U.S. has arrested two businessmen for their alleged roles in a scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China, while another businessman pled guilty to smuggling the AI tech company's chips, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:00:26 +0000 /texas/articles/2419821?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2419821 A Seventh Circuit judge on Tuesday suggested Penske's push for theĀ judicial review of trustees' internal decision-makingĀ was a "long and new stretch" in a disputeĀ over whether a Teamsters pensionĀ plan had the power to expel a Penske bargaining unit in Dallas,Ā questioning what law authorizes such scrutiny. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:02:23 +0000 /texas/articles/2420125?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2420125 German software company SAP SE has inked a deal to end a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing it of infringing various patents owned by Valtrus Innovations Ltd. covering computer data and communication. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:48:09 +0000 /texas/articles/2419878?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /texas/articles/2419878 A Texas bankruptcy judge agreed Tuesday to approve the Chapter 11 plan of nylon manufacturer Ascend Performance Materials, commending the debtor on reaching a largely consensual restructuring proposal eight months after its free-fall bankruptcy filing.