August 2020

August 29, 2020 Hidey Ho, Fellow Campers!  Only about 2 days left in this fiscal year for the Texas appellate courts, and they have kicked out the error preservation stops, so to speak.  It is interesting–while I did not specifically check the numbers from the last few years, it seems like this year followed a […]

August 22, 2020 Dear All: Well, the courts continue churning out opinions to move as many cases as they can prior to the end of the fiscal year, and as usual this time of year the opinions contain their fair share of error preservation decisions: Table of Contents The Dallas Court has reminded us of

August 15, 2020 Dear All: We continue our steady march toward the end of the courts’ fiscal year, and they continue to churn out opinions.  Most of this week’s error preservation decisions involved parties failing to raise their complaints in the trial court, but a few decisions did have interesting aspects to them: Table of

August 8, 2020 Dear All: The courts of appeals continue their steady march to the end of their fiscal year, and we see the normal slight uptick in the number of error preservation opinions. Table of Contents When you argue a basis to support your TCPA motion at the hearing on the motion, you have

August 1, 2020 Hi, Buckaroos!  We are within sight of the end of the courts’ fiscal year, and we can expect their opinion production to ramp up over the next month.  And I’ve found that sometimes that ramped up production coincides with interesting error preservation decisions. Table of Contents Rarely, an issue arises about whether