September 2020

September 26, 2020 Dear All: It seems that Fall is upon us, or at least we seem to have started moving firmly in that direction (at least in the northern half of the state).  I’ll know it for sure when my red oaks start changing colors. In the meantime, here is this week’s offering. Table […]

September 19, 2020 Dear All: While we had the typical collection of error preservation decisions holding that parties had not raised their complaints in the trial court, we had a couple of cases which held that complaints were not preserved because they were not sufficiently specific. I always find those cases interesting. I initially started

September 12, 2020 Dear All: I hope all of you took the opportunity to watch the State Bar’s Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar this last week, and the Appellate Law 101 Course which preceded it.  Really, really good speakers, papers, and topics.  If you did not have a chance to catch it this last week, watch

September 5, 2020 Dear All: Welcome to a new (fiscal) year for the Texas appellate courts!  Typically, the first couple of weeks of the new fiscal year do not see a lot of error preservation decisions, but not so this year.  I suspect that’s related to a smaller number of appellate filings for last year