March 2023

March 27, 2023 Dear Friends: Table of Contents If a trial court sustains your opponents’ objections to your summary judgment evidence, do you have to object to that ruling in order to preserve a complaint about the ruling for appeal? Some courts say yes, some no–here the Fort Worth Court reaffirms its presence in the […]

March 18, 2023 Dear Folks: This week catches a couple of older Supreme Court error preservation rulings. Table of Contents Without expressly saying so, the Supreme Court held that a party may raise a complete lack of notice of a summary judgment hearing in a motion for new trial–and here, that included the lack of

March 11, 2023 Dear Folks: Table of Contents Lack of subject matter jurisdiction can first be raised on appeal A complaint that an affidavit is conclusory can first be raised on appeal You have to get a ruling, which can be express or implicit, and can take many forms Continuance Your complaint must be timely

March 7, 2023 Sorry, folks.  I got way behind, trying to keep up with speaking, the ice storm, and the pesky day job. Table of Contents Some complaints can first be raised on appeal–and new arguments in support of a complaint at trial can, as well Government Immunity Expert (Assumptions) Legal and Factual Sufficiency (Bench