The Dallas Court of Appeals has held that the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) and its prohibition against unlawful employment practices because of sex, encompasses claims for unlawful employment practices because of sexual orientation. This interpretation is the first for an appellate court in Texas and the court’s analysis follows the United States
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The Texas Supreme Court’s Docket, Part 2
By Mike Northrup on
Each calendar year, the Supreme Court of Texas agrees to hear and decide somewhere around 80 petitions for review. This is only a fraction of the petitions for review that come knocking on the court’s door. When the court grants a petition for review the odds are very strong that the court is going to reverse the court of appeals judgment. Overall reversal rates range between 75% to 85% for the years 2014 through 2017, with the average reversal rate for all four years being 82.2%.
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Whistleblowers: Who Ya Gonna Call?
By Mike Northrup on
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The Texas Whistleblower Act protects a public employee who makes a good faith report of a legal violation by his or her employer “to an appropriate law enforcement authority.” Tex. Gov’t Code § 554.002(a). Texas law has generally held that the “appropriate law enforcement authority” must be an authority that has outward-looking powers to investigate,…
Dallas Court of Appeals reinstates $7.25 million verdict on quantum meruit claim
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I generally think of quantum meruit claims as merely disposable, add-on claims used in a belt-and-suspenders approach to a contract action. But after reading the opinion in Shamoun & Norman, LLC v. Albert G. Hill, Jr., I am not going to underestimate the power of a quantum meruit claim. A $7.25 million bonus for…
What’s in a name?
By David Oliveros on
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Under Rule 28, is pleading the name of a popular location where a business is located sufficient to name an entity?
This was the issue in Seidler v. Morgan, a recent Texarkana Court of Appeals case.
While vacationing at Fish Creek Ranch located in Dolores, CO, the plaintiff fell from a horse and dislocated her…