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June 29, 2020 Dear All: There is some indication that most courts of appeals seem to have figured out a way to get their opinions picked up by the various online reporters, so we have some error preservation decisions to examine this week–including one or two from the Texas Supreme Court. Table of Contents Very […]

June 24, 2020 Dear All: The good news is that–per Blake Hawthorne–the Supreme Court’s case management system is reconnected to the efiling system; now SCOTX will have to procees about 2,000 post-May 6 filings into its case management system.  But at least it can start moving forward. On to error preservation. This last week, I

June 6, 2020 Dear All: Gradually, the various courts’ electronic systems are coming back after the ransomware attack on the OCA system.  In the last couple weeks, only a few of the courts of appeals (San Antonio, Eastland, Corpus Christi-Edinburg), have had their opinions uploaded to the alternate OCA website (www.txcourts.net); however, the opinions of

May 23, 2020 Dear Gang ‘O Mine: I know all of you are aware of the ransomware attack on the efacilities of the Office of Court Administration.  OCA and the courts are working diligently to bring all the courts fully back online, but in the meantime the ransomware attack continues to affect the abilities of

May 16, 2020 Dear All: I know all of you are aware of the ransomware attack on the e-facilities of the Office of Court Administration.  From all reports, OCA and the courts are working diligently to bring all the courts fully back online, but in the meantime the ransomware attack has definitely affected the abilities

May 11, 2020 Dear All: I hope you all remain safe and well.  I failed to post anything last week–I had good intentions, but wisdom teeth extractions got in the way.  Those were truly a definition of fun I’d either not previously heard, or at least not fully appreciated. So here is what we have

April 25, 2020 Dear All: I hope all of you remain safe and well.  We have quite a few cases dealing with error preservation this week. Table of Contents The Supreme Court weighed in on error preservation this week, in a kind of pedestrian way Appraisal Clauses Lack of subject matter jurisdiction-one category of which

April 19, 2020 Hey Buckaroos.  I hope all goes well, and this finds you and yours safe and healthy. I don’t have much to report this week–the courts seem to still remain busy churning out opinions, but not many involved error preservation issues (save for those in which the complaint was not raised at all

April 5, 2020 Dear All: I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  The courts have certainly stayed busy over the last week or so, as this Table of Contents reveals: Table of Contents The Supreme Court weighed in on when a legal sufficiency complaint would preserve a complaint that a hearing commissioner relied

April 3, 2020 Dear All: Sorry folks.  Did not get last week’s stuff posted until now. Table of Contents The Dallas Court reaffirmed that one does not have to raise a complaint in the trial court in order to complain on appeal about the failure of a temporary injunction order to comply with Rule 683