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Texas - September, 2015

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• Exxon Asks 5th Circ. To Rehear $3.3M Injury Coverage Suit
• Southwest Says Delta Can't Elbow In At Dallas Airport
• Volkswagen Hit With First Gov't Suit Over Diesel Emissions
• Stanford's Latin America Exec Hit With New Ponzi Claims
• Homeowners' Ike Damage Claim Limited, Texas Court Says
• Thompson & Knight Picks Up Dallas City Atty For Gov't Group
• Allcare Can't Appeal $4.7M Fee Award In Highmark IP Row
• NASA, Boeing Pen $1.18B Extension Of Space Station Contract
• OPINION: Paul Harvey, RIP
• Delta Says Customers Lose If It's Booted From Dallas Airport
• STB Backs Union Pacific Decision To Avoid Sherwin Lockout
• NCAA Bans SMU Basketball From 2016 Postseason
• Hunt Seeks Texas Regulator's Blessing On EFH, Oncor Deal
• Oil Driller Settles SEC Probe Over African Payments
• 5th Circ. Asked To Rehear Transocean Pirate Attack Suit
• Jackson Walker DQ Bid Hits Texas Mixed-Use Project Row
• Google Can't Nix Data Patent As Abstract Ahead Of Trial
• Skanska Contractor's Shoddy Work Not Covered, Insurer Says
• Fight For Conoco-Aetna Docs Erupts In $120M Kickbacks Suit
• Texas Rocket Docket Faces New Surge Of Patent Suits
• Delta Slams Southwest In Dallas Airport Gate Fight
• Texas AG Sues Ex-Atty Over Asylum Cases
• Armstrong Settles With Insurer After $10M Perjury Sanction
• JC Penney Says Allowing Investor Suit Is Mistake
• Halliburton, Baker Hughes Eye More Sales For $34.6B Tie-Up
• Sanchez Energy Sells Texas Assets For $345M To MLP
• Raytheon Accuses Cray Of Infringing Supercomputer Patents
• Greenberg Traurig Adds Austin-Based Trio From Winstead
• 5th Circ. Affirms Removal Of Ch. 7 Trustee For Overbilling
• Baker Botts, Cleary Rep Kraton Polymers In $1.4B Purchase
• Energy Transfer To Buy Williams Cos. For $38B
• Law360 Names Most Feared Plaintiffs Firms Of 2015
• EDekka's Loss In Texas Won't Slow Plaintiffs' IP Campaigns
• Nepali Families Ask 5th Circ. To Revive Suit Against KBR
• VW Can't Sell Cars Linked To Emission Scandal In Texas
• Land Rover Targeted In Inventor's Camera Alert Patent Suit
• Texas Agency Wants Clarity On E-Verify Requirements
• Texas High Court Won't Review Water Well Damage Dispute
• EEOC Slams EmCare's Bid To Undo Sex Harassment Verdict
• Apt. Manager Wanted 'Ken And Barbie' Workers, EEOC Says
• Quebec Derailment Suit Misplaced In Texas, Railroad Co. Says
• Arnold & Itkin Loses 5th Circ. Fee Bid In Explosion Suit
• American Airlines Sues Seat Maker Zodiac Over Delays
• OPINION: Have Big Law Firms Lost Their Way?
• Texas Justices Won't Hear Retail Tax Audit Rule Challenge
• 6 IP Boutiques Punching Above Their Weight
• Johnston Tobey Nabs Appellate Pro In Dallas
• Lessor-Lessee Relations After Shale's Honeymoon Period
• Texas Court Drops Prof From Securities Suit Over Invention
• Apple Can't Appeal Mirror Worlds Order Mid-Case, Judge Says
• Volkswagen Faces Multistate Probe Over Emissions Fraud
• Experts Say Ethicon Didn't Disclose Pelvic Mesh Dangers
• The Ethics Of Using Public Adjusters As Expert Witnesses
• Texas AG Beefs Up Defense Team, Appoints Lead Counsel
• BP Asks 5th Circ. To OK Deepwater Settlement Calculations
• Full DC Circ. Review Sought Over IRS Foreigner Account Rule
• Texas Court Says Gas Equipment Tax Formulas Are Fair
• Sierra Club Gets OK To Intervene In Luminant Clean Air Suit
• Dallas Atty, 4 Others Indicted In $22M Workers' Comp Scam
• Texas Officials OK $89M In State Road Upgrades
• Deals Rumor Mill: Williams Cos., Repsol, Towers Watson
• Online Phone Call Patent Axed Under Alice In Texas
• Occidental Says Texas Law Doesn't Apply To Sinkhole Suit
• Malpractice Insurer To Appeal $37M Loss In Texas Firm's Suit
• Texas Jury Clears Google, Samsung Of Infringement Claims
• DOT Again Asks Court To Nix Dallas Airport Row
• Amazon Shuts Down Patent Suit Over Music Store, App
• Texas Court Clerk Allegedly Threw Out Court Docs
• BP Deepwater Plaintiffs Ask 5th Circ. To Rethink Denied Cert.
• Chartis, Cooper To Mediate $17M Ponzi Loss Coverage Row
• Wal-Mart Tells Texas Justices Optometry Penalty Can't Stand
• Judge Denies Cert. In RICO Class Action Over LG Air Units
• EDekka Shopping Cart Patent Knocked Out Under Alice
• Texas Ethics Agency Says Lobbyist's Fine Wrongly Axed
• Railroads Join Chorus Against EPA's Waters Of The US Rule
• Crestwood, Unit Holders Ink Proposed Settlement Over Merger
• 5th Circ. Rebuke Could Give Employers An Edge In DOL Fights
• Baker Hughes Sued For Ruptured Valve At $2.5B Gas Reserve
• SEC Sues Ex-Wells Fargo Adviser For Ripping Off Clients
• 5th Circ. Takes Risk Out Of 'Materialization Of The Risk'
• Campus Apartments Drops $116M For 3 Housing Complexes
• T-Mobile, Samsung Escape Texas Suit Over 911 Death
• Eastern Texas Is Not Jumping On The Alice Bandwagon
• 13 Stanford Investors Must Return $2M Reaped From Scheme
• DOJ Reviewing Last Few Errant Exec. Action Work Permits
• J&J's Ethicon Unit Defends Pelvic Mesh In Dallas Trial
• Raylon Atty Can't Ax Sanctions In Frivolous Patent Row
• 5th Circ. Won't Rethink Making Pharmacies Arbitrate With CVS
• FERC Says Total Unit Manipulated Natural Gas Prices
• Texas Towing Co. Says State's Lost Profits Law Is 'Arbitrary'
• Halliburton To Pay $18M In OT To Misclassified Workers
• 5th Circ. Says Taxpayer Assistance Request Tolls Statute
• EA Slams 'Baseless' Sanctions Bid In Fight Over $5M IP Verdict
• Texas Not Liable For Plugging Wrong Well, State Justices Told
• Jaffe Raitt Says It's Immune From $24M Oilfield Assets Suit
• Dow Chemical Fights BASF Bid To Gut Texas Superfund Suit
• Delta, Southwest Want Dallas Airport Row Kept In Fed. Court
• States Come Out Swinging Against New Joint-Employer Test
• The 4 Firms In-House Counsel Fear The Most
• Texas Atty Arrested For Soliciting Murder During Drug Deal
• Enterprise Says Contracts Bar $535M Award In Pipeline Suit
• United Energy Wants En Banc Rehearing Over BP Asset Sale
• Texas Judge Cuts Off Union Pacific Superfund Suit
• Virtual Bitcoin Bank Founder Admits To Ponzi Fraud
• Trinity Drops Appeal Over Guardrail Docs In $663M FCA Case
• Dune Energy Gets Go-Ahead To Wind Down Business
• Texas Enviro Agency Calls Landfill Permit Fight Premature
• Low Oil Prices Threaten $1.5T In New Projects, Report Says
• Bracewell Adds 4 Ex-Katten Enviro Partners In Texas
• General Dynamics Wants Metal Co. Fraud Suits Merged
• Ashley Madison User Asks For MDL Transfer To Illinois
• Transgender Man In Title VII Row Withdraws 5th Circ. Appeal
• Judge Keeps $8M Contract Suit Against Texas Lawyers Alive
• Texas Fires Off $1.4M In Fines Against Pipelines, Utilities
• Texas High Court Axes Whistleblower Suit Against State AG
• J&J Pelvic Device Gets 1st Court Test In Dallas Trial
• Texas Justices Rule Sport Spectator Injury Suit Can Proceed
• Exxon Pollution Suit Sidesteps Regulators, 5th Circ. Told
• NXP's $12B Freescale Deal Gets EU Nod With Divestiture
• 5th Circ. Upholds VA Med Malpractice Judgment For Widow
• Electronics Exporter Says Iran Sanctions Don't Apply To Him
• Texas Landowners Refused Class Cert. In Border Fence Row
• NRG Spins Off Clean Energy Biz, Nets $210M For Wind Farms
• Are Disparate Impact Claims Legally Cognizable Under ECOA?
• EPA, Army Corps Slam States' Bid For Water Rule Injunction
• DOL Pays $1.5M In Oil Field Service Co.'s Bad Faith Case
• 5th Circ. Upholds $6M Win For Allstate In RICO Case
• Apple Retrial In $533M Smartflash Case On Hold For Appeal
• Evidence Of Texas AG's Ties To Tech Investments Disclosed
• 5th Circ. Says Guards' Break Travel Time May Require Pay
• 5th Circ. Leaves Oil Refinery's Ch. 11 Plan Untouched
• 5th Circ. Affirms St. Paul Owes $2.3M For Oil Well Blowout
• Ways To Treat Texas Progressive Claim Syndrome
• GAO Urges Air Force To Reimburse Cos. For Contract Protest
• 5th Circ. Won't Rehear Verizon Retirees' ERISA Appeal
• NobelBiz Wins $1.47M In Web-Based Messaging IP Row
• 5th Circ. Rules Trinity Can't Keep Guardrail Docs Sealed
• Thompson & Knight Loses Appellate Vet To Dallas Boutique
• 5th Circ. Won't Rehear Oil Rig Worker's Jones Act Suit
• 5th Circ. Won't Let Stanford Investors Pursue $80M Suit
• Reed Smith Snags Ex-ConocoPhillips Deputy GC In Houston
• J&J Unit Wants $1.2M Pelvic Mesh Judgment Wiped Out
• Dune Energy Defends Its Chapter 11 Plan, Settlement
• Mexico's Oil Auction Changes Bode Well For Future Bidding
• Oil Rig Co. Moblize Gets Rival's $71M Patent Suit Shut Down
• US 'Dumping Ground' For Immigrants, Trump Tells Crowd
• Coach Immune In Row Over Student's Facebook, 5th Circ. Says
• Judge Gilstrap Refuses To Correct 'Typo' In Patent Claims
• Hartford Tells 5th Circ. Ark. Crane Injury Claims Excluded
• Bass Pro Says High Court Ruling Doesn't Apply In EEOC's Suit
• Two More Sports Apps Give Up The Fight Over Data Patent
• 5th Circ. Says 2-Year Delay Frees Insurer From Hail Coverage
• Baker Hughes Sues US For $17.6M 'Bad Debt' Tax Refund
• Texas Grocer Pays Immigrant Workers $416K In Back Wages
• Ex-Superior Offshore CFO Gets Insurance Suit Revived
• DOT Looks To Ground Competition Row Over Dallas Airport
• Florida's Take On Telling Clients To Scrub Social Media Pages
• EFH Defends Pact With Creditors
• Orthotic Co. Says No Connection Between Audits, Stock Drop
• BP Urges FERC To Dump Market Manipulation Charge
• 4 Ex-Burleson Attys Open Energy Boutique In Texas
• 5th Circ. Won't Rehear ERISA Dispute With Texas Clinic
• Deutsche, RBS Denied Full 5th Circ. Review In $2B RMBS Row
• Activist Groups Tell Justices To Curb Lengthy Border Stops
• Chevron, EnerVest Slam Dune's Ch. 11 Plan Liability Releases
• Texas AG Asked To Weigh Tax Status Of A&M Student Housing
• Taiwan Residents Bring South China Sea Oil Row To Justices
• Baker Botts Adds Trio Of IP Partners From Vinson & Elkins
• Class Cert. Denied In Samsung Defective Phone Suit
• 3 Years Of Coordinating Litigation With PTAB Proceedings
• Texas Water Access Fight Opens Door For Major Policy Shift
• Enforcement Hole Created By 5th Circ. Migratory Bird Ruling
• Dallas Says FAA Probe Over Delta Airport Row Is Intimidation
• Kinder Morgan, Cheniere Unit Reach Natural Gas Deal
• General Dynamics Says Metal Co. Rewriting $3.7M Fraud Suit
• Houston Psychiatrist Convicted In $158M Medicare Scheme
• Life Partners Trustee Hits Back At CEO With $41M Fraud Suit
• Texas Panel Revives Union Pacific Private Crossing Spat
• Uranium Energy Board Accused Of Unlawful Stock-Touting
• Safety National Says 5th Circ. Revived Unripe Indemnity Row
• Texas Oil And Gas Group Settles Suit Over City's Frack Ban
• EPA Clean Power Plan Draws Fire From States In Hearing
• Exxon Urges 5th Circ. Not To Revive $641M Emissions Row
• Barnes & Thornburg Adds Trial Atty From Greenberg Traurig
• College Athletics Puts Title IX In The Spotlight
• Houston Court Revives IDev Shareholder Suit Over Dilution
• PDVSA Appeals Conoco's Right To Buy Stake In Refinery Unit
• Texas Regulator Clears EnerVest Well In Quake Investigation
• GCs Name States With The Worst Legal Climates
• Dallas DA's Office Defends Fraud Case Against Oil Heir
• 5th Circ. Affirms Pair's Sentences In $11M Medicare Fraud
• Swiss Army Knife Maker Wins $8M In Copycat Cuttery Row
• Texas AG Names New Legal Team For Securities Defense
• Texas Court Dumps Malpractice Suit Over Stolen Semen Case
• Tesoro To Appeal Chartis' Win In $30M Cleanup Row
• Texas Broadcasters Push FCC To Keep TV Exclusivity Rules
• ArcLight, Texas Oil Driller Sink $200M Into Startup
• IRS Gives Up Bid For $43.5M In Taxes From Tycoon's Estate
• Samsung Beats Retrial Bid In Messaging Patent Dispute
• Atty In SEC Row Cedes License For Keeping Unearned Fees
• CVS Can't Force Drugstores To Arbitrate, 5th Circ. Hears
• Can The Lesser Prairie Chicken Cross The Regulatory Road?
• IRS Double Charging Tax On Art Rent And Transfer, Co. Says
• OSHA Fines Texas Oil Co. After Fatal Well Explosion
• Cows To Come Home To Texas In Bill Koch Cattle Fight
• Deals Rumor Mill: Solera, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Manulife
• Jailed Health Co. Heads Hit With $2M Judgment In FCA Suit
• Cantey Hanger Absorbs Texas Employment Boutique
• TiVo Hits Samsung With DVR Recording Patent Suit
• Hunt Oil Heir Says Judge's Bias 'Infected' Rulings
• Wal-Mart, GameStop Say Patents Invalid In Infringement Suit
• CVS, Walgreen Want Coupon Patents Snipped Under Alice
• Texas Firm Says Oil Heir Owes It $7.25M For Settlement
• Uniloc Wants EA, Attys Sanctioned After $5M Patent Verdict
• Shell Scraps Its Westward Ho Pipeline Project
• Parsing The Precedent Before High Court's Gomez Ruling
• Real Estate Rumors: Microsoft, Nissan, NBPA
• Aetna Owes Nearly $34M in Surgery Payments, Texas Suit Says
• Texas High Court To Hear Contractor-Supplier Indemnity Fight
• Texas Seeks Injunction Over EPA's 'Waters Of The US' Rule
• Texas Justices Take Union Pacific West Nile Virus Worker Row
• Energy Co. Expands Project Along Columbia River To $1.5B
• 5th Circ. OKs BP Deepwater Class Cert. Split Decision
• Texas High Court Takes Apache Appeal Over Oil Payment
• No Sanctions Needed In Immigration Action Case, US Says
• McGuireWoods Grabs Ex-Tenet M&A Counsel For Texas Office
• Luminant Branches Into Solar Energy With SunEdison Deal
• Apple Wants Retrial On Smartflash Patent Damages Paused
• Holland & Knight Opens Houston Office With Greenberg Attys
• 5th Circ. Reverses Citgo Migratory Bird Convictions
• When Past Exposure Evidence Is Allowed In Asbestos Defense
• 5th Circ. Kicks Stryker Foot Implant Suit To State Court
• Chesapeake Deal Staves Off Bass Family Royalty Trial
• Schiff Hardin Bolsters Dallas Labor And Employment Group
• SIFMA Urges 5th Circ. To Vacate FDIC Extender Decision
• Highland Gets $288M From Credit Suisse For Land Deal Fraud
• Texas Justices Take Up Ranch's Groundwater Fight With City
• Suitors Lose Bid To End Life Partners' Ch. 11 Exclusivity
• Skanska Says Air Force Project Bond Can't Be Revoked
• Texas Justices Again Stay Out Of Fen-Phen Referral Fee Fight
• Texas High Court Rejects Anadarko Drilling Rights Case
• Texas Justices To Hear $11.4M Spat Over Drilling Study
• Texas Atty, Woman Charged In Alleged $8.8M Law Firm Scam
• Bracewell Giuliani Partner Joins Pillsbury In Austin
• 11th Circ. Rips Jurisdiction Call In Ameritox Kickback Row
• Baylor Taps Pepper Hamilton To Probe Sex Assault Responses
• Fraud Suit Tied To KBR Energy Contracts Beats Dismissal Bid
• EmCare Tries To Undo Sex Harassment Jury Verdict
• Tesoro Tells 5th Circ. Employee Forgery Counts As Theft
• Omnicare Beats $630M FCA Suit After 7-Year Saga
• 5th Circ. Won't Rethink Katrina Insurance Penalty Ruling
• Insurers Should Pay $72M In Rig Death, Texas Justices Told
• Conservative Group Rejects IRS' Bid To Toss Targeting Suit
• Fish & Richardson Gets A Week To Find Counsel For Texas AG
• Texas Abortion Law Challenged At Supreme Court
• Latham, Sheppard Mullin Steer $400M Semiconductor Deal
• FCC OKs Frontier Purchase Of Verizon Operations In 3 States
• Texas Justices Probe Retaliation Claims In Kingsaire Suit
• 5th Circ. Nixes Win For Wow Cafe In Franchise 'Typo' Row
• Machine's Ex-Owner Not Liable For Injury, Texas Justices Told
• 5th Circ. Says Prison Not Covered In Suit Over Inmate Death
• Metal Co. Fights General Dynamics Bid To Dismiss $3.7M Suit
• Legal Precedent May Come From Ashley Madison Breach
• Trinity Can't Keep Guardrail Docs Sealed, Whistleblower Says
• Apple Loses Bid For New Infringement Trial In $533M IP Case
• Zurich Says Gemini On The Hook For Oil-Drilling Fire Damage
• Narrowed Indictment Doesn't Kill Conviction, 5th Circ. Rules
• FWS Gets Foul Call For Prairie Chicken Threatened Listing
• O'Quinn Suffers Defeat In Silica Malpractice Coverage Suit
• Ex-Client Says Texas Atty Stole Money, Faked Investments
• Industry Group Tells Texas Justices To Nix Houston Air Law
• Addition Of Defective Parts Is Injury, Texas Justices Hear
• Texas Supreme Court Questions Firm's DQ From Mining Suit
• Ex-John Kerry Counsel, Susman Partner Joins Gibson Dunn
• Flip Side Of Texas High Court's Austin V. Kroger Decision
• Update On Bargaining Theory In Hypothetical Negotiations
• St. Paul Must Cover Well Blowout Damages, Texas Court Says
• Texas Man Gets 17 Years For Fake Disney Resort Scheme
• Amnesty Int'l, Others Back Cert. Bid Over Border Killing
• Texas Racing Agency Gets Reprieve Amid Power Struggle
• Grocer Urges Gilstrap To Flip 'Unfair' Ruling By Magistrate
• Spokeo Will Impact Verizon ERISA Suit, 5th Circ. Told
• Texas Regulator Says XTO Well Didn't Cause Quakes
• Deals Rumor Mill: BG Group, GE Capital, Ajinomoto
• Investors Slam Bid To Toss Cobalt Bribery Class Action
• McDermott Takes 2 More Ex-K&L Gates Partners In Dallas
• Immigrant Women Fight Feds' Bid to Dismiss 1st Amend. Suit
• EPA Sanctioned For 'Bad Faith' In CWA Suit
• Wal-Mart Sex Bias Claims Should Proceed, 5th Circ. Hears