August 2021

August 26, 2021 Dear Friends: Well, I got behind again, but I’m caught up–until Saturday.  🙂 Table of Contents I missed a big one in an earlier SCOTX opinion, which our friends with the State Bar’s Supreme Court Update webinar pointed out–to preserve a complaint about conflicting jury answers, you have to raised the complaint […]

August 17, 2021 Dear Friends: Caught up again, with a couple of interesting opinions about objecting to an expert post-trial (through a legal-sufficiency complaint) and preserving Casteel objections in a bench trial. Table of Contents How specific does the legal insufficiency challenge in the motion for new trial need to be to preserve a challenge

August 14, 2021 Dear Friends: Well, I’m back to a week behind, but I’ll try to catch up this next week.  This is for the week ending August 7, 2021. Table of Contents A party may first raise a governmental immunity argument on appeal-and such complaints come in many different forms You must get a

August 4, 2021 Dearly Beloved: Blame Randy Roach for whatever pain this causes you.  Just like he put me off into the error preservation morass about 15 years ago through a CLE paper assignment, he suggested a week or two ago that I put together a list of error preservation decisions by the Texas Supreme

August 2, 2021 Dear Friends: Table of Contents Here is a rare event-on rehearing, a court decided that it was previously wrong in holding that a party failed to preserve a complaint (in this instance, as to the failure of the trial court to hold an evidentiary trial on a claim for attorney’s fees) Evidentiary