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Bus. 5", "cause_number": "24-BC04A-0002", "division": "4th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": null, "date_iso": "2024-11-07", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2024-10-23", "days_motion_to_ruling": 15, "holding_one_line": "Following the same reasoning, the court granted the plea to jurisdiction and remand, finding the pre-September 2024 filing date barred Business Court jurisdiction.", "source_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/bus-crt-tex/116931328.html", "coded_from": "secondary", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "official PDF not locatable; coded from FindLaw reproduction", "conflicting citation numbers in weak sources; 2024/5 corroborated by roundup citing the opinion's own footnote" ] }, { "citation": "2024 Tex. Bus. 6", "cause_number": "24-BC11B-0008", "division": "11th", "judge": "Dorfman", "judge_signature_typed": true, "date_iso": "2024-11-26", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2024-10-10", "days_motion_to_ruling": 47, "holding_one_line": "Business Court lacks jurisdiction over pre-September 1, 2024 filings; HB 19's jurisdictional grant applies only prospectively, so remand is required.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459724/24-bc11b-0008-xto-energy-v-houston-pipeline-company-opinion-and-order.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "judge name and motion date confirmed via secondary cross-check; verify against PDF signature block" ] }, { "citation": "2024 Tex. Bus. 7", "cause_number": "24-BC01A-0006", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "date_iso": "2024-12-16", "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Court lacked jurisdiction because the action commenced before the Business Court's September 1, 2024 effective date, so it remanded to Dallas County.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459792/24-bc01a-0006-christopher-seter-v-wesdale-asset-management-ltd-jgb-ventures-i-ltd-joseph.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "Westdale/Wesdale spelling varies between URL slug and PDF text; same cause as In re Westdale mandamus 15-24-00135-CV" ] }, { "citation": "2024 Tex. Bus. 8", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0004", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": false, "date_iso": "2024-12-20", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Despite the parties' post-effective-date agreement to Business Court jurisdiction, the court held HB 19 bars jurisdiction over pre-September 2024 suits, staying the remand pending appeal.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459814/24-bc11a-0004-lone-star-ngl-product-services-llc-vs-cr-pe-opinion-and-order.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "court raised jurisdiction sua sponte via its own briefing order - no motion date by rule", "judge name from secondary corroboration; signature illegible in OCR", "remand stayed pending permissive interlocutory appeal" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 1", "cause_number": "24-BC03A-0004", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": null, "date_iso": "2025-01-03", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "other", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "other", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Court ruled the $5 million amount-in-controversy threshold applies and deferred the remand ruling pending discovery and a valuation hearing.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459894/24-bc03a-0004.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "caption C Ten 31 LLC deriv. SummerMoon Holdings v. Tarbox" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 2", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0016", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": null, "date_iso": "2025-01-17", "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Court found no jurisdiction over a pre-September-2024 suit and ordered remand, staying that order pending related appellate proceedings.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459932/24-bc11a-0016.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "judge from secondary corroboration" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 3", "cause_number": "24-BC01A-0011", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": null, "date_iso": "2025-01-31", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Court held Chapter 25A allows removal of entire suits only, and the 2022 commencement date barred jurisdiction, requiring remand.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1459992/24-bc01a-0011.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "Osmose Utilities v. Navarro County Electric Coop; double-verified this session" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 4", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0001", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": null, "date_iso": "2025-02-04", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Court held actions commence at the original petition's filing and Chapter 25A bars removing individual claims, ordering remand for lack of jurisdiction.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460011/25-bc11a-0001.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "date and judge from secondary corroboration; Sebastian v. Durant" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 5", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0010", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": null, "date_iso": "2025-02-10", "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Court denied special appearances, finding defendants waived personal-jurisdiction objections through an earlier general appearance in a related action.", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460026/24-bc01b-0010.pdf", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "Primexx matter" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 6", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0001", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "date_iso": "2025-02-10", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed in district court Dec 30, 2024; amended TI denied Jan 21, 2025; amended petition Jan 28, 2025; notice of removal filed Jan 29, 2025; TRO denied Jan 30, 2025; TI hearing scheduled Feb 11, 2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460027/25-bc03a-0001.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied remand, holding removal was timely and the amount in controversy met the Business Court's jurisdictional threshold.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 7", "cause_number": "24-BC03B-0003", "division": "3d", "judge": "Sweeten", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "date_iso": "2025-02-11", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2024-10-30", "days_motion_to_ruling": 104, "other_dates_recited": "Original suit filed May 1, 2024 (419th Dist. Ct., Travis County); removal notice filed Sept 30, 2024; response brief filed Oct 31, 2024; hearing Dec 5, 2024.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460071/24-bc03b-0003.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted remand; the underlying suit commenced before H.B. 19's September 1, 2024 effective date, so the court lacked jurisdiction.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 8", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0013", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "date_iso": "2025-02-25", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2024-11-12", "days_motion_to_ruling": 105, "other_dates_recited": "Original Petition filed June 16, 2022; Third Amended Petition filed Sept 20, 2024; Notice of Removal filed Oct 14, 2024.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "secondary", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/bus-crt-tex/117002139.html", "holding_one_line": "Granted remand of a partnership accounting and fiduciary-duty dispute, finding the Business Court lacked jurisdiction over the claims.", "flags": [ "official_txcourts_pdf_(https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460072/24-bc11a-0013.pdf)_unreadable_after_2_webfetch_attempts_returned_header_only_content", "description_gist_mismatch: batch gist describes arbitration-award confirmation and vacatur; the actual case is a partnership dispute where the court GRANTED remand for lack of jurisdiction, not an arbitration ruling at all", "judge_signature_typed field omitted: not directly confirmed from the official PDF; judge name (Adrogué) taken from secondary source and division assignment" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 9", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0010", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": false, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-03-10", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "TAPA/partnership terms negotiated 2016; two-year hold triggering drag-along eligibility July 12, 2018; Callon initial offer early May 2021; sale announced July 30, 2021; board approved Aug 2, 2021; sale closed Oct 1, 2021; MSJ filed May 2024 (day not recited); case removed to Business Court Sept 2024.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460139/24-bc01b-0010.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted partial summary judgment, holding the general partner met modified fiduciary duties except on proceeds-allocation and waterfall-distribution claims.", "flags": [ "judge_signature_typed=false: opinion ends 'It is, So Ordered' with no typed judge name over the title, per direct reading of the final order text and corroborated by a secondary source (Dowd Bennett case note) because the ~190-paragraph opinion exceeded the WebFetch retrieval window near the signature block", "motion_filed_date_iso left null because the opinion recites only 'May 2024' for the MSJ filing, without a specific day" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 10", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0001", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "reconsideration", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-03-11", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-02-21", "days_motion_to_ruling": 18, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed in district court Dec 30, 2024; TI hearing Feb 11/13/14, 2025; closing arguments Feb 18, 2025; TI order issued Feb 19, 2025.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460143/25-bc-bc03a-0001.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted in part and denied in part reconsideration of the temporary-injunction order and objections to excluding an expert's opinions.", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: batch gist describes a remand ruling on the qualified-transaction/$5M threshold; the actual opinion is titled 'Objections to Temporary Injunction Order, Motion to Rule on Exclusion of Opinions of Dr. Williams, and Motion to Reconsider' and does not address remand" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 11", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0028", "division": "11th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-03-11", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Plaintiff's response filed Feb 27, 2025; defendant's reply filed March 4, 2025; hearing held March 6, 2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460153/24-bc11a-0028.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied the plea to the jurisdiction, holding the gas-gathering contract dispute met the court's amount-in-controversy threshold.", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: batch gist describes a remand ruling in an IP-misappropriation case; the actual opinion denies a plea to the jurisdiction (case stays, no remand) in a natural-gas gathering-agreement breach dispute, unrelated to IP" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 12", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0001", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-03-28", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Original Petition filed Sept 3, 2024; original plea to jurisdiction filed ~Oct 2024; First Amended Petition Jan 24, 2025; Second Amended Petition Feb 11, 2025; Second Amended Plea refiled without redactions Feb 26, 2025; agreement effective date June 1, 2021.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460219/24-bc01b-0001.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied the second amended plea to the jurisdiction in a cross-border natural-gas delivery dispute after defendants withdrew their venue motion.", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: batch gist frames this as a venue-transfer ruling; the opinion states defendants withdrew their motion to transfer venue, and the actual ruling denies a plea to the jurisdiction" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 13", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0010", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "reconsideration", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-04-15", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Prior MSJ opinion (2025 Tex. Bus. 9) granted in part March 10, 2025; hearing referenced Nov 21, 2024; reconsideration order dated April 10, 2025, with written opinion issued April 15, 2025.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460344/24-bc01b-0010-primexx-energy-opportunity-fund-lp-et-al-v-primexx-energy-corporation-et-al-reconsideration.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied reconsideration of the March 2025 partial summary-judgment ruling, rejecting both previously raised and newly raised arguments.", "flags": [ "opinion recites two dates for the reconsideration ruling: order signed/denied April 10, 2025, and written opinion issued April 15, 2025; date_iso uses April 15 consistent with the citation date" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 14", "cause_number": "25-BC04A-0003", "division": "4th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "sustained", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "date_iso": "2025-04-17", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Original probate action filed Feb 20, 2024; defendant's answer filed March 27, 2024; amended petition filed Feb 3, 2025; case removed to Business Court March 5, 2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460350/25-bc04a-0003-in-re-jwb-trust-of-2007-et-al.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Remanded for lack of jurisdiction; the probate action commenced before September 1, 2024, and later amendments did not restart that date.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 15", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0002", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "arbitration", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "mixed", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-04-21", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-02-17", "days_motion_to_ruling": 44, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed December 2024; hearing March 14, 2025; order signed April 2, 2025. | order disposing of motions issued 2025-04-02; memorandum opinion signed 2025-04-21", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460352/25-bc08a-0002-hall-v-vanderhoef-memorandum-opinion.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted a stay pending arbitration of an LLC-expulsion dispute and dismissed only the individual breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim under Rule 91a.", "flags": [ "court's own PDF filename spells the party 'Hall' but the opinion's caption itself reads 'Jaime Tall' throughout; followed the opinion text per instructions, matching the batch's 'Tall v. Vanderhoef'", "days measured to the recited disposing order (2025-04-02), not the later memorandum opinion, per dataset method note" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 16", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0004", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "rendered", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-05-13", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "PSA effective date Oct 12, 2016; HCRE notes executed May 7 and May 27, 2014; Atlas's Original Petition filed Feb 13, 2025; balance calculation date Jan 31, 2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460515/25-bc01b-0004-atlas-idf-v-nexpoint-real-estate-partners-et-al-opinion-on-meaning-of-qualified-transaction.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Held it has jurisdiction because the dispute arises from a qualified transaction and the amount in controversy exceeds $10 million.", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: batch gist describes contract interpretation of property interests, vested fee-simple rights, and back-in calculation timing; the opinion actually read addresses subject-matter jurisdiction under the qualified-transaction/amount-in-controversy standard, on the court's sua sponte request for briefing, not fee-simple property rights" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 17", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0007", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-05-13", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Original Petition filed Oct 1, 2024; TI denied Dec 28, 2024; counterclaims filed Dec 30, 2024; ruling signed March 17, 2025; written opinion requested April 14, 2025; opinion signed May 13, 2025.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460514/24-bc11a-0007-createai-holdings-v-bot-auto-rule-91a-mem-op.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Dismissed two declaratory-judgment counterclaims under the mirror-image rule as merely restating denials of the plaintiff's injunction claims.", "flags": [ "signature-block text was OCR-garbled in retrieval ('Hon. rogué Texasominess Cour leventh Division') but is legible enough to confirm a typed name is present, consistent with Judge Adrogué, Eleventh Division" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 18", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0003", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "date_iso": "2025-05-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-02-26", "days_motion_to_ruling": 77, "other_dates_recited": "Original action filed Dec 19, 2024; Notice of Removal filed Feb 10, 2025; motion hearing April 16, 2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460519/25-bc08a-0003-g-force-associates-v-bloecher-et-al-remand-no-qualified-transaction.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted remand, holding unconsummated construction-bid negotiations never became a binding $10 million qualified transaction conferring jurisdiction.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 19", "cause_number": "24-BC11B-0023", "division": "11th", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "discovery_protective", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2025-05-16", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Opinion references that a hearing was held but recites no specific hearing date; case-filed date not recited.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460561/24-bc11b-0023-westlake-longview-corporation-v-eastman-chemical-co-opinion-on-motion-for-protective-order-revised.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted in part a protective order allowing an Attorneys'-Eyes-Only designation but found the record insufficient to define its scope.", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: batch gist describes a limitations-accrual/discovery-rule ruling on allegedly fraudulent securities-purchase statements; the opinion at this citation/date is instead an Attorneys'-Eyes-Only discovery protective-order ruling, an unrelated topic and matter_type" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 20", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0005", "division": "11th", "judge": "Dorfman", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "venue_transfer", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-05-20", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Hearing held April 28, 2025; Shut In Agreement term recited as May 10, 2023 to December 31, 2023; demand letter recited as sent October 2024. Opinion signed May 20, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460557/25-bc11b-0005-ngl-water-solutions-permian-v-lime-rock-resources-v-a-et-al-mem-op-transfer-venue.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted transfer to Loving County under mandatory real-property venue rules and dismissed the case without prejudice for failure to elect transfer.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist described a discovery/trade-secret reconsideration ruling; the opinion actually decides a real-property mandatory-venue transfer motion" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 21", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0010", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "dismissed", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-05-22", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Opinion titled Memorandum Opinion and Order Nunc Pro Tunc, referencing a prior May 9, 2025 dismissal order and earlier summary-judgment rulings. Signed May 22, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460590/24-bc01b-0010-primexx-energy-opportunity-fund-lp-et-al-v-primexx-energy-corporation-et-al-some-defendants-dismissed.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court held the partnership agreement's Section 13.9 waives conspiracy and aiding-liability exposure, dismissing claims against Doyle and Blackstone defendants with prejudice.", "flags": [ "The opinion does not name a specific motion type (91a, MSJ, etc.); it resolves a party request tied to a prior dismissal/summary-judgment order. matter_type coded as summary_judgment as closest fit; confidence reduced accordingly." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 22", "cause_number": "24-BC08A-0002", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-05-23", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Original petition filed October 1, 2024; amended petition recited as filed January 31 (year not explicit); plea to the jurisdiction recited as filed April 4 (year not explicit, presumed 2025); hearings January 7, 2025 and May 7, 2025; preliminary determination January 17, 2025. Opinion signed May 23, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460607/24-bc08a-0002-slant-operating-v-octane-energy-operating-ptj-denied.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied defendant's plea to the jurisdiction, finding the pleadings sufficiently alleged a qualified transaction exceeding the $10 million jurisdictional threshold.", "flags": [ "Exact year for the April 4 plea-filing date and the January 31 amended-petition date not explicit in the extracted text; motion_filed_date_iso left null rather than assuming 2025." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 23", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0007", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-06-18", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Plaintiff's lottery win alleged May 2023; competing lottery drawing alleged April 2023. Opinion signed June 18, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460789/25-bc03a-0007-reed-v-rook-tx-opinion-and-order-denying-motion-to-remand-with-syllabus.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied the motion to remand, holding the lottery-fraud dispute falls within Business Court jurisdiction rather than requiring remand.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist stated the case was remanded under a mandatory real-property venue provision; the opinion actually DENIES a motion to remand in a lottery-fraud dispute with no real-property venue issue" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 24", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0004", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-06-30", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-04-10", "days_motion_to_ruling": 81, "other_dates_recited": "Original case filed February 10, 2025; first amended petition filed March 10, 2025; notice of removal filed March 11, 2025; hearing held May 28, 2025; remanded to the 342nd Judicial District Court of Tarrant County. Opinion signed June 30, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460813/25-bc08a-0004-black-mountain-swd-v-ngl-water-solutions-permian-opinion-and-order-on-motion-to-remand.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted plaintiff's motion to remand, holding the pleaded amount in controversy did not exceed the $10 million jurisdictional threshold.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist stated remand was denied on limited-partnership-governance grounds; the opinion actually GRANTS remand on amount-in-controversy grounds, opposite disposition and different rationale", "judge field was blank in the supplied batch; filled here from the signature block (Bullard)" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 25", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0021", "division": "11th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-06-30", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-01-29", "days_motion_to_ruling": 152, "other_dates_recited": "First Amended Petition filed June 13, 2025; motion submitted for decision June 20, 2025. Opinion signed June 30, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463179/24-bc11a-0021-kassam-v-dosani-2025-tex-bus-25.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied defendants' motion to sever and plea to the jurisdiction, finding claims adequately alleged an amount in controversy exceeding $5 million.", "flags": [ "judge field was blank in the supplied batch; filled here from the signature block (Bullard)", "is_memorandum was listed false in the supplied batch; the opinion is captioned Memorandum Opinion and Order, corrected to true here" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 26", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0010", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-07-16", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Acconcia's special appearance recited as filed October 30, 2024; Blackstone Inc.'s special appearance recited as filed February 14, 2025; original petition filed October 25, 2024; order granting special appearances April 28, 2025; final judgment June 16, 2025. Opinion signed July 16, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460901/24-bc01b-0010-primexx-energy-opportunity-fund-v-primexx-energy-corporation-2025-tex-bus-26.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted special appearances of Acconcia and Blackstone Inc., dismissing claims against them for lack of personal jurisdiction in the Callon-sale dispute.", "flags": [ "This citation was pre-flagged in the supplied batch as having conflicting prior extraction results and low confidence. This row is coded from a full, successful direct PDF read that was internally consistent (cause 24-BC01B-0010, signed July 16, 2025, special appearances of Acconcia and Blackstone Inc. granted). Confidence set to medium and cross-check against the docket recommended given the prior flagged conflict.", "Two special appearances with different filing dates were resolved in one opinion; no single motion_filed_date applies, left null." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 27", "cause_number": "24-BC01A-0002", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "venue_transfer", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-07-16", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Parties notified court of agreement June 26; original deadline July 9; extended deadline July 10 with defendant's counsel indicating a motion forthcoming. Order signed and filed July 16, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460902/24-bc01a-0002-bp-energy-company-v-cox-2025-tex-bus-27.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted the parties' unopposed motion and transferred the action to a Potter County district court based on defendant's jurisdictional plea.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist described a remand for an untimely removal notice filed more than 30 days after service; the opinion is actually an unopposed TRANSFER to district court on a jurisdictional plea, with no removal-timeliness issue discussed and no notice-of-removal dates recited", "judge field was blank in the supplied batch; filled here from the signature block (Bouressa)" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 28", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0001", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "discovery_protective", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "na", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-07-18", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Underlying discovery order dated May 28, 2025; court order denying reconsideration June 23, 2025; case recited as initially filed December 2024. Opinion filed July 18, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1460911/25-bc03a-0001-safelease-insurance-services-llc-v-storable-inc-et-al-2025-tex-bus-28.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied Storable's motion for partial reconsideration of a discovery order compelling production of a customer list claimed as trade secret.", "flags": [ "judge field was blank in the supplied batch; filled here from the signature block (Andrews)" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 29", "cause_number": "24-BC08B-0003", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-08-04", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-05-23", "days_motion_to_ruling": 73, "other_dates_recited": "Original petition filed October 2024; amended petition filed July 15, 2025; deadline for supplemental jurisdiction agreement recited as August 15, 2025. Opinion signed August 4, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461043/24-bc08b-0003-mm-livestock-v-robinson-2025-tex-bus-29.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied defendants' plea to the jurisdiction, finding plaintiffs adequately pleaded an amount in controversy exceeding the $5 million threshold.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 30", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0027", "division": "11th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-08-11", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-06-09", "days_motion_to_ruling": 63, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed in district court April 9, 2025; EOG's answer/counterclaim filed May 12, 2025; motion submitted for consideration July 17, 2025; order signed July 25, 2025 (opinion citation/filing date is August 11, 2025); House Bill 40 effective date September 1, 2025, held not retroactive.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461062/25-bc11b-0027-owl-assetco1-v-eog-resources-2025-tex-bus-30.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted remand, holding the amount in controversy did not reach $10 million and House Bill 40 did not apply retroactively.", "flags": [ "The order signature date recited in the opinion (July 25, 2025) differs from the August 11, 2025 citation/filing date used for date_iso and for the days_motion_to_ruling computation; flagged for reconciliation." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 31", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0017", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-08-12", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed April 23, 2025; order denying the remand/abate motion recited as June 30, 2025. Opinion signed August 12, 2025. Note: the PDF filename bears a 'corrected 10-17-25' notation, but no in-text corrected-opinion notice or revision date was surfaced in the fetched text.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461411/25-bc01b-0017-chaudhry-v-stillwater-capital-investments-2025-tex-bus-31-corrected-10-17-25.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied motions to remand or abate, and to transfer or dismiss a counterclaim, rejecting jurisdictional challenges on both matters.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist described a single plea to the jurisdiction decided on attorney argument alone; the opinion actually resolves two separate motions (remand-or-abate; transfer-or-dismiss a counterclaim), both denied", "PDF filename indicates a version corrected 10/17/25; the fetched text did not confirm whether the read copy reflects that correction — flag for confirmation the final corrected text was used" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 32", "cause_number": "25-BC08B-0009", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-08-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-07-07", "days_motion_to_ruling": 38, "other_dates_recited": "Parker County case filed September 2022; Parker County pleading deadline December 6, 2024; Business Court case filed June 3, 2025; hearing held August 6, 2025. Opinion signed August 14, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461070/25-bc08b-0009-martens-v-lamkin-land-cattle-company-2025-tex-bus-32.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied defendants' motion to dismiss, plea to the jurisdiction, and plea in abatement over an LLC involuntary winding-up application.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist described a remand based on decades of historical purchase orders failing to establish a qualified transaction; the opinion actually denies dismissal/jurisdiction/abatement motions concerning an LLC winding-up petition versus a competing Parker County case — no remand, qualified-transaction, or purchase-order issue found in this opinion" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 33", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0006", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-08-19", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Special appearance order referenced as granted July 17, 2025; Securities Purchase Agreement recited as signed in 2017. Opinion entered August 19, 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461097/25-bc01b-0006-riverside-strategic-capital-fund-i-v-clg-investments-2025-tex-bus-33.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted out-of-state defendants' special appearances and dismissed claims against them without prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction.", "flags": [ "gist_mismatch: supplied description_gist described a contract-interpretation ruling on exclusive tank allocation and ship-or-pay credits; the opinion is actually a special-appearance/personal-jurisdiction ruling in a securities-investment dispute — no tank-allocation or ship-or-pay issue appears in this opinion" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 34", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0007", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-08-25", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Lottery drawing 2023-04-22; winning drawing 2023-05-17; Third Amended Petition filed roughly five days before a Rule 91a hearing (exact date not given); nonsuit filed 2025-07-09; further filings 2025-07-11, 2025-07-14, 2025-07-24, 2025-08-15.", "holding_one_line": "Granted renewed remand motion after amended petition removed governance allegations, finding no subject-matter jurisdiction over remaining claims.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461116/25-bc03a-0007-reed-v-rook-tx-2025-tex-bus-34.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 35", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0006", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-09-17", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Investment made 2017-01-26; CMS suspension notice June 2017; second CMS suspension 2019-06-12; bankruptcy filed 2019-07-29; trustee claim notice letter 2020-04-06; trustee lawsuit filed 2021-01-25; criminal guilty plea 2024-10-07; case filed 2025-01-23.", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment for defendants, holding fraud, money-had-and-received, and conspiracy claims time-barred under the discovery rule.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: the batch-provided gist describes an employment-discrimination claim remanded for lack of jurisdiction under internal-affairs/qualified-transaction provisions; the actual opinion is a limitations-based summary judgment on fraud, money-had-and-received, and conspiracy claims, with no remand and no employment-discrimination content" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461287/25-bc01b-0006-riverside-strategic-capital-fund-i-v-clg-investments-2025-tex-bus-35.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 36", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0013", "division": "11th", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "other", "disposition": "rendered", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-09-18", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Transaction confirmations exchanged January 2021; Mercuria's signed confirmation returned 2021-01-25; Winter Storm Uri delivery-month event mid-February 2021.", "holding_one_line": "Ruled at a pretrial conference that both parties' transaction confirmations were binding contract terms, with neither confirmation controlling over the other.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "division_mismatch: batch listed division as '3d Div.' (likely Judge Andrews's home division); the opinion's own caption states Eleventh Division, where Andrews sat by assignment — division coded from the opinion itself", "non-motion ruling: this was not a granted/denied motion but a Rule 166(g) pretrial resolution of a legal issue (Issue #3) identified in the parties' Joint Advisory; matter_type and disposition are best-fit approximations of that procedural posture" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461293/25-bc11a-0013-marathon-oil-v-mercuria-energy-america-2025-tex-bus-36.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 37", "cause_number": "25-BC04A-0013", "division": "4th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "sustained", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-09-23", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Original petition filed in Bexar County Probate Court No. 1 on 2025-07-01; notice of removal to the business court filed 2025-08-14.", "holding_one_line": "Sustained plaintiff's objection and remanded the case to probate court, finding the business court lacked jurisdiction over Title 9 trust claims.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: the batch-provided gist describes denial of a motion for judgment on the pleadings and Texas's differing pleading standard; the actual opinion (confirmed on two independent reads) is a jurisdictional remand to probate court under Property Code Title 9, with no discussion of judgment on the pleadings or pleading standards" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461336/25-bc04a-0013-barrett-v-barrett-2025-tex-bus-37.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 38", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0024", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sharp", "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-10-07", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "None confirmed — the official PDF returned no machine-readable text across three separate WebFetch attempts, so no dates were independently verified.", "holding_one_line": "Denied summary judgment on royalty gate-revenue payments, holding waste disposed on an adjacent tract under the same landfill permit remained payable.", "coded_from": "description_only", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "pdf_unreadable: the official txcourts.gov PDF returned empty/no machine-readable text on three separate WebFetch attempts (exceeding the one-retry allowance); all fields coded from the provided description_gist only and are not independently verified against the opinion text", "cause_number sourced from the court's own PDF filename (24-bc11a-0024), not confirmed from readable document body text", "judge_signature_typed omitted — could not be verified since the PDF text was unreadable", "holding corrected 2026-08-24 adversarial review: prior text cross-contaminated from another row; corrected per Velaw Q4-2025 and Sullivan & Cromwell Nov 2025 summaries" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461389/24-bc11a-0024-arnold-v-blue-ridge-landfill-2025-tex-bus-38.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 39", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0013", "division": "11th", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-10-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Gas sales agreement reached January 2021; Winter Storm Uri delivery period February 2021; expert deposition 2025-07-24; prior related order in the same case dated 2025-09-19.", "holding_one_line": "Ruled the force-majeure and reasonable-efforts provisions did not obligate Marathon to buy spot-market replacement gas or execute a contract buyback during Winter Storm Uri.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: the batch-provided gist describes a denied remand and an unenforceable venue-selection clause with venue lying in Galveston County; the opinion (confirmed on two independent reads, including a targeted check) contains no remand or venue content at all and instead resolves four cross-motions for partial summary judgment on force-majeure/reasonable-efforts contract interpretation", "disposition approximated: the opinion resolves four distinct partial-summary-judgment issues; a single top-line disposition code necessarily compresses a multi-issue ruling — see holding_one_line and other_dates_recited for the specific issues resolved" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461396/25-bc11a-0013-marathon-oil-v-mercuria-energy-america-2025-tex-bus-39.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 40", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0013", "division": "11th", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-10-28", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Force-majeure declared February 2021; joint advisory 2025-07-25; briefing 2025-08-13; prior opinion in the same case (2025 Tex. Bus. 36) dated 2025-09-18; stipulation 2025-10-08; pretrial report 2025-10-13; prior opinion in the same case (2025 Tex. Bus. 39) dated 2025-10-14.", "holding_one_line": "Left the liquidated-damages penalty question for trial but rejected the cost-basis measure of actual damages as legally incorrect under Texas contract law.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: the batch-provided gist describes dismissal of defamation and tortious-interference counterclaims tied to judicial-proceeding communications for lack of damages; the opinion (confirmed on two independent reads, including a targeted check) contains no defamation or tortious-interference content and instead addresses liquidated-damages enforceability and the proper measure of contract damages", "disposition approximated: the opinion resolves several distinct damages-related rulings (penalty question preserved for trial; cost-basis theory rejected as a matter of law; spot-price amount not conclusively proven; market-value damages not equivalent to lost profits) — a single disposition code compresses this multi-issue ruling" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461456/25-bc11a-0013-marathon-oil-v-mercuria-energy-america-2025-tex-bus-40.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 41", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0019", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-10-29", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Amended special-appearance filings 2025-07-14, 2025-08-15, and 2025-08-18; responsive briefs 2025-08-29 and 2025-09-03; joint-venture discussions began December 2024; foreclosure deadline January 2025.", "holding_one_line": "Granted third-party defendant Talati's special appearance, dismissing all claims against him for lack of personal jurisdiction over the Texas-property joint-venture dispute.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: the batch-provided gist describes denial of dismissal on fiduciary-duty claims treated as independent of trade-secret claims with imputed agent knowledge; the actual opinion is a personal-jurisdiction special-appearance ruling for third-party defendant Sapan Talati, unrelated to fiduciary duty or trade-secret preemption", "motion_filed_date_iso left null: the opinion recites three separate special-appearance filing dates (2025-07-14, 2025-08-15, 2025-08-18, apparently successive/amended filings) without clearly identifying a single filing date for the specific special appearance ultimately ruled on" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461457/25-bc01b-0019-jt-capital-v-blom-capital-2025-tex-bus-41.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 42", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0013", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-10-29", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Parties entered the 2022 Alliance Program Agreement (only the year is stated in the opinion).", "holding_one_line": "Granted partial summary judgment barring the business-disparagement claim under the contract's damages limitation, but let defamation and tortious-interference claims proceed for general damages.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "description_gist_mismatch: the batch-provided gist describes subject-matter and dominant-jurisdiction doctrine and discretion to transfer a case among counties; the opinion, confirmed by a targeted check, explicitly does not concern subject-matter jurisdiction, dominant jurisdiction, or venue transfer, and is instead a partial summary judgment on tort claims under a contractual limitation-of-liability clause" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461480/25-bc01a-0013-fiberwave-v-att-enterprises-2025-tex-bus-42.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 43", "cause_number": "25-BC03B-0002", "division": "3d", "judge": "Sweeten", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-11-03", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-07-23", "days_motion_to_ruling": 103, "other_dates_recited": "Original lawsuit filed 2025-02-06; counterclaims filed 2025-03-26; third-party petition filed 2025-06-23; alleged contract termination 2024-11-07; construction commenced 2022.", "holding_one_line": "Denied the plea to the jurisdiction, holding third-party claims against subcontractors arose from a qualified transaction meeting the $5 million threshold.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461524/25-bc03b-0002-cadence-mcshane-construction-co-v-ryan-bb-blockhouse-creek-2025-tex-bus-43.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 44", "cause_number": "25-BC08B-0013", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-11-05", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-09-22", "days_motion_to_ruling": 44, "other_dates_recited": "Response to the motion filed 2025-10-16; oral argument held 2025-10-23; acquisition talks began in 2023; initial closing scheduled 2023-09-22; extended closing deadline 2024-02-15; suit filed 2025-07-07.", "holding_one_line": "Granted partial dismissal of the veil-piercing and breach-of-contract claims against an individual defendant under Rule 91a, but allowed the fraud claim to proceed.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461511/25-bc08b-0013-lensabl-v-rbh-spe-one-2025-tex-bus-44.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 45", "cause_number": "24-BC11A-0002", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-11-08", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-01-28", "days_motion_to_ruling": 284, "other_dates_recited": "Purchase and Sale Agreement dated 2024-05-01; inspection period expired 2024-07-01 (midnight); key emails exchanged 2024-06-26, 2024-06-28, and 2024-07-01; City Choice filed original petition 2024-09-04; TMC filed third-party petition 2024-10-08; court's order on the First Motion 2025-06-06; post-hearing briefs 2025-03-20 and 2025-03-28; second-motion responses 2025-07-16, 2025-08-04, and 2025-08-11; second motion filed 2025-07-14.", "holding_one_line": "Granted partial summary judgment holding City Choice terminated the purchase agreement and is estopped from seeking specific performance; denied release of escrowed funds.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "opinion resolves two separate motions: a termination/estoppel motion filed 2025-01-28 (granted, and reflected in motion_filed_date_iso/days_motion_to_ruling above) and a separate escrow-release motion filed 2025-07-14 (denied) — the two motions are not reducible to one filing date" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461580/24-bc11a-0002-city-choice-group-v-tmc-grand-blvd-land-co-2025-tex-bus-45.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 46", "cause_number": "25-BC08B-0001", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "fees", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2025-11-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-09-12", "days_motion_to_ruling": 63, "other_dates_recited": "Second Amended Answer filed 2025-07-07; Third Amended Answer filed 2025-10-30.", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment barring recovery of attorney's fees on declaratory-judgment counterclaims found duplicative of other claims or outside the court's jurisdiction.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "minor framing difference from the batch gist: the opinion specifically bars attorney's-fee recovery tied to the declaratory-relief counterclaims as duplicative/outside jurisdiction, rather than formally dismissing the counterclaims themselves outright; substance is otherwise consistent with the provided gist" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461582/25-bc08b-0001-crs-mechanical-v-norfolk-cold-storage-2025-tex-bus-46.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 47", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0052", "division": "11th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2025-12-05", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-10-03", "days_motion_to_ruling": 63, "other_dates_recited": "Original contract between the parties dated December 2019; initial lawsuit filed 2025-04-09; first removal notice filed 2025-05-12; first remand motion filed 2025-06-09; first remand granted 2025-07-25; H.B. 40 effective 2025-09-01; second removal notice filed 2025-09-03; hearing held 2025-11-19.", "holding_one_line": "Denied plaintiff's second remand motion, holding the post-H.B.-40 removal was timely and proper under the reduced five-million-dollar jurisdictional threshold.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "flags": [ "division_cause_number_mismatch: the batch-provided division ('8th Div.') and cause number ('25-BC08A-0052') — and the court's own PDF filename, which also reads 'bc08a' — do not match the text printed in the opinion's own caption block, which states Eleventh Division and cause number 25-BC11A-0052 (confirmed on a targeted, character-level re-read); division and cause_number above are coded from the opinion body itself; the opinion notes Judge Bullard was sitting by assignment" ], "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461720/25-bc08a-0052-owl-assetco-i-v-eog-resources-2025-tex-bus-47.pdf" }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 48", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0050", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461739/25-bc01a-0050-sun-metals-group-v-yu-2025-tex-bus-48.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-05", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Second Amended Answer/Counterclaims filed 2025-08-13; Second Amended Petition filed 2025-09-08; removal deadline (calculated) 2025-10-08; Notice of Removal filed 2025-10-28; oral hearing 2025-12-01.", "holding_one_line": "Court remanded the case after finding removal untimely, more than 30 days after jurisdictional facts were apparent.", "flags": [ "No filing date for the remand motion itself is recited in the opinion; only related petition, answer, and removal dates are given, so motion_filed_date_iso is left null." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 49", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0014", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "dismissed", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462111/25-bc08a-0014-crain-v-northern-2025-tex-bus-49-corrected.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-17", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-10-20", "days_motion_to_ruling": 45, "other_dates_recited": "Original petition filed 2025-06-20; case removed to Business Court 2025-07-09; First Amended Petition filed 2025-09-26; response to motion filed 2025-11-10; order sustaining objection 2025-11-17. | order disposing of the 91a motion issued 2025-12-04; opinion signed 2025-12-17", "holding_one_line": "Court dismissed all claims against one defendant for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction over legal-malpractice and derivative fractured claims.", "flags": [ "days measured to the recited disposing order (2025-12-04); txcourts hosts two media files for this citation (1461780 and 1462111-corrected) with no textual difference found beyond the filename" ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 50", "cause_number": "25-BC04B-0014", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "mixed", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461797/25-bc04b-0014-hensarling-v-carmichael-2025-tex-bus-50.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-18", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-11-10", "days_motion_to_ruling": 38, "other_dates_recited": "Original 91a motion filed 2025-11-06; hearing held 2025-12-10; plaintiff's nonsuit filed 2025-12-08; jurisdiction briefing filed 2025-12-12; scheduling-order deadline 2026-01-07.", "holding_one_line": "Court retained subject-matter jurisdiction and denied dismissal of a partnership wind-up application, finding pleaded facts adequate.", "flags": [ "Judge's typed name was not clearly legible on first extraction pass; a targeted re-fetch confirmed the signature block reads Stacy Roger Sharp, cross-checked against the same-day companion order (2025 Tex. Bus. 51)." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 51", "cause_number": "25-BC04B-0001", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "rendered", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461798/25-bc04b-0001-ornelas-v-herrera-2025-tex-bus-51.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-18", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Joint Advisory on Early Legal Issues filed 2025-09-26; plaintiffs' brief filed 2025-10-24; agreed orders dismissing settled defendants entered September 2025; pretrial conference held 2025-12-09; further pretrial conference scheduled 2026-03-03; jury trial set for week of 2026-03-30.", "holding_one_line": "Court held partial settlement with other defendants did not divest jurisdiction; deferred ruling on defendant's fiduciary-duty status.", "flags": [ "Ruling arose from a Joint Advisory on Early Legal Issues rather than a conventional dispositive motion; no discrete motion-filing date for the specific ruling is recited, so motion_filed_date_iso is left null." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 55", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0030", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "other", "disposition": "rendered", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461813/25-bc01b-0030-preston-hollow-capital-v-truist-bank-2025-tex-bus-55.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-19", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Hearing held 2025-12-02; prior discovery order issued 2025-12-09; prior order on the punitive-damages waiver issued 2025-12-17.", "holding_one_line": "Court held a punitive-damages waiver enforceable across related agreements and found a replaced trustee retains confidentiality duties post-resignation.", "flags": [ "Ruling is a Rule 166(g) early-legal-issue determination on contract/trust-law questions rather than a conventional single motion; matter_type coded as other because it does not map cleanly onto the listed taxonomy." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 52", "cause_number": "24-BC08A-0002", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461810/24-bc08a-0002-slant-operating-v-octane-energy-operating-25-tex-bus-52.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-22", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Second Amended Petition filed 2025-07-11; prior jurisdictional ruling issued 2025-05-23; Plaintiffs' Motion to Establish Jurisdiction filed 2025-08-28; Octane's Plea to the Jurisdiction and No-Evidence Motion filed 2025-09-09; Plaintiffs' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment filed 2025-09-26; Letter Agreement executed February 2023.", "holding_one_line": "Court held one plaintiff lacked third-party-beneficiary standing and dismissed its claims, while retaining jurisdiction over the case.", "flags": [ "This order resolves four separate motions (jurisdiction, plea to the jurisdiction, and cross-motions for summary judgment) with mixed outcomes; motion_filed_date_iso left null because no single motion date corresponds to 'the' ruling, see other_dates_recited for each motion's filing date." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 53", "cause_number": "24-BC08A-0002", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461811/24-bc08a-0002-slant-operating-v-octane-energy-operating-25-tex-bus-53.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-22", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-03-19", "days_motion_to_ruling": 278, "other_dates_recited": "Original Petition filed 2024-10-01; Letter Agreement executed 2023-02-22; RRC permit application/objection filed 2024-09-16; jurisdiction hearing held 2025-01-07; Octane's competing summary-judgment motion filed 2025-06-17.", "holding_one_line": "Court granted plaintiff's partial summary judgment on liability for breach of the reciprocal waiver agreement, denying defendant's competing motion.", "flags": [ "Order simultaneously denies a competing summary-judgment motion filed by defendant on 2025-06-17; the motion_filed_date_iso and holding above describe the plaintiff's motion that was granted, matching the case citation's framing." ] }, { "citation": "2025 Tex. Bus. 54", "cause_number": "24-BC08A-0002", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461812/24-bc08a-0002-slant-operating-v-octane-energy-operating-25-tex-bus-54.pdf", "date_iso": "2025-12-22", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-10-02", "days_motion_to_ruling": 81, "other_dates_recited": "Letter Agreement executed 2023-02-22; summary-judgment hearing held 2025-10-29; deadline for response to objections 2025-11-03; untimely Fielder Affidavit filed 2025-11-04; Motion to Strike filed 2025-11-07.", "holding_one_line": "Court granted partial summary judgment for defendant on certain damages claims and struck untimely evidence, denying judgment on other damages theories.", "flags": [ "Companion order to 2025 Tex. Bus. 52 and 53, same cause number and same date; the disposition is a mixed grant/denial across several damages theories, condensed here to granted_in_part." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 1", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0050", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "reconsideration", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "other", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461884/25-bc01a-0050-sun-metals-group-v-yu-2026-tex-bus-1.pdf", "date_iso": "2026-01-06", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Removal basis (jurisdictional facts) evident 2025-09-08; Notice of Removal filed 2025-10-28; prior remand opinion issued as 2025 Tex. Bus. 48.", "holding_one_line": "Court denied reconsideration of its remand order and declined permission for interlocutory appeal, leaving the case remanded to state court.", "flags": [ "removal_remand coded 'other': this order denies reconsideration of a prior remand grant (2025 Tex. Bus. 48) rather than itself newly granting or denying a remand motion." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 2", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0013", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1461915/25-bc01a-0013-fiberwave-v-att-enterprises-2026-tex-bus-2.pdf", "date_iso": "2026-01-08", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Email communications dated 2024-04-03 and 2025-04-18; hearing held on a December 17 (year not stated in the opinion, presumed 2025 by context).", "holding_one_line": "Court granted summary judgment against a defamation claim, finding the challenged statements non-verifiable opinion rather than actionable fact.", "flags": [ "Hearing date is recited as 'December 17' without an explicit year in the opinion; presumed 2025 from surrounding context but not independently confirmed." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 3", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0022", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462023/25-bc01a-0022-qunitero-v-urban-infraconstruction-2026-tex-bus-3.pdf", "date_iso": "2026-01-26", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Alleged partnership formation 2015; initial capital deposit 2015-11-02; plaintiff's concerns raised 2016; suit filed 2025; pretrial hearing held 2025-10-20; related order dated 2025-10-22.", "holding_one_line": "Court ruled for defendants on membership, contract, and fraud claims tied to one LLC while allowing separate business claims to proceed to trial.", "flags": [ "The txcourts.gov PDF filename/URL misspells the caption as 'Qunitero'; the opinion's own caption reads 'Quintero,' which is used here per instructions to follow the PDF.", "The order functions as both a Rule 166(g) legal-issue adjudication and, per its own text, a reconsideration of an earlier summary-judgment ruling; matter_type of summary_judgment is a best-fit classification given that overlap, hence medium confidence." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 4", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0014", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": false, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462061/25-bc08a-0014-crain-v-northern-2026-tex-bus-4.pdf", "date_iso": "2026-02-02", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-10-23", "days_motion_to_ruling": 102, "other_dates_recited": "Buy-Sell Notice sent/received 2024-08-16; 30-day response deadline 2024-09-19; mediation occurred October 2024; membership-interest transfer effective 2024-12-19; cashier's checks delivered 2025-03-13; lawsuit filed June 2025; response filed 2025-11-27; reply filed 2025-12-03; motion hearing held 2025-12-03.", "holding_one_line": "Court granted summary judgment enforcing a buy-sell option, ordering assignment of forfeited membership interests and awarding attorney's fees.", "flags": [ "Signature block on this order is blank with no typed/printed name beneath the signature line (a known defect in this court). Judge is listed as Bullard based on case continuity — same cause number 25-BC08A-0014, same Eighth Division, previously signed with a typed name by Judge Bullard in 2025 Tex. Bus. 49 — but this is NOT confirmed by this document's own signature block." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 5", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0030", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "other", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "description_only", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462085/25-bc01b-0030-preston-hollow-capital-v-truist-bank-2026-tex-bus-5.pdf", "date_iso": "2026-02-02", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "", "holding_one_line": "Granted Truist's motion to designate responsible third parties under section 33.011(6), conditioned on satisfying the pleading standard.", "flags": [ "pdf_url returned a 404 client error on both the initial fetch and the required retry; row is coded from description_gist only per protocol.", "matter_type, disposition, threshold_or_merits, and removal_remand are best-effort characterizations of the gist text and are NOT confirmed against the primary source.", "judge (Whitehill) taken from the court's case list/batch metadata for this same cause number's prior order (2025 Tex. Bus. 55), not confirmed by reading this document.", "disposition corrected 2026-08-24 adversarial review (granted with pleading proviso); corroborated by Dowd Bennett Feb 2 2026 summary" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 6", "cause_number": "25-BC04B-0017", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "coded_from": "description_only", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462072/25-bc04b-0017-alamo-title-company-v-wfg-national-title-company-2026-tex-bus-6.pdf", "date_iso": "2026-02-03", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "", "holding_one_line": "Denied remand, holding future damages count toward the five million dollar threshold and confidential-customer-information claims fall within qualified-transaction jurisdiction.", "flags": [ "PDF returned no extractable/machine-readable text on both the initial fetch and the required retry; row is coded from description_gist only per protocol.", "matter_type, disposition, and removal_remand are best-effort characterizations of the gist text and are NOT confirmed against the primary source.", "judge (Sharp) and division (4th Div.) are taken from the court's case list/batch metadata, not confirmed by reading this document.", "recoded 2026-08-24 adversarial review to match dataset convention for denied remand; corroborated by Foley & Lardner Mar 2026 alert" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 7", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0007", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462153/25-bc08a-0007-american-airlines-v-jetblue-airways-2026-tex-bus-7.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Special appearance denied; American pleaded sufficient jurisdictional facts and JetBlue failed to negate all bases of personal jurisdiction.", "date_iso": "2026-02-19", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": false, "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-09-29", "days_motion_to_ruling": 143, "other_dates_recited": "Response filed 2025-12-08; reply filed 2025-12-22; sealing order 2026-01-08; hearing held and request for written opinion filed 2026-01-12.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 8", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0025", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "matter_type": "arbitration", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "mixed", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462181/25-bc01a-0025-bnsf-railway-v-level-3-communications-2026-tex-bus-8.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied BNSF's bid to vacate and granted Level 3's cross-motion, confirming the arbitration panel's award on rate-reset arbitrability and merits.", "date_iso": "2026-02-24", "is_memorandum": false, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-06-20", "days_motion_to_ruling": 249, "other_dates_recited": "Master Right-of-Way Agreement executed 1998-06-15; renewal notice 2022-12-09; negotiation period ended and arbitration demand filed ~2023-10-31; panel denied motion to dismiss 2024-04-05; final arbitration hearing began 2025-03-10; final award issued 2025-06-02; Business Court scheduling order 2025-09-19; bench trial in Business Court 2026-01-12.", "flags": [ "threshold_or_merits coded as mixed: the ruling resolves both an arbitrability/gatekeeping question (who had authority to decide) and confirms the substantive rate-dispute outcome." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 9", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0094", "division": "11th", "judge": "Dorfman", "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462351/25-bc11b-0094-yaun-v-battle-sands-energy-2026-tex-bus-9.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied remand; the dispute is a qualified transaction and satisfies the amount-in-controversy jurisdictional threshold for Business Court jurisdiction.", "date_iso": "2026-03-03", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed 2025-08-25; HB 40 (lowering jurisdictional thresholds) took effect 2025-09-01; damages calculated as of 2025-12-31.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 10", "cause_number": "24-BC11B-0018", "division": "11th", "judge": "Barnard", "matter_type": "trial_final_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462364/24-bc11b-0018-mesquite-energy-v-sanchez-oil-2026-tex-bus-10.pdf", "holding_one_line": "After bench trial, court split the Terra settlement proceeds 50-50 and ordered reimbursement of half of pre-2019 litigation expenses.", "date_iso": "2026-03-04", "is_memorandum": false, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Settlement agreement dated 2022-09-12; underlying Terra litigation filed 2016-03 and resolved 2024; bench trial 2026-01-12 to 2026-01-16; post-trial briefs 2026-01-30.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 11", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0014", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462442/25-bc08a-0014-crain-v-northern-2026-tex-bus-11.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted plea to the jurisdiction; plaintiff lacked standing to bring derivative claims as a former member, dismissing those claims.", "date_iso": "2026-03-11", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": false, "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-02-03", "days_motion_to_ruling": 36, "other_dates_recited": "Original suit filed in Tarrant County District Court 2025-06-20; membership-interest sale/assignment effective 2024-12-19; response filed 2026-02-17; reply filed 2026-02-20; request for written opinion filed 2026-02-22.", "flags": [ "Opinion also references a separate, earlier 2026-02-02 amended order in the same case granting summary judgment on a specific-performance claim; that ruling is distinct from the plea-to-the-jurisdiction ruling coded here." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 12", "cause_number": "26-BC08B-0003", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "matter_type": "injunction_tro", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462445/26-bc08b-0003-galderma-laboratories-v-brenner-2026-tex-bus-12.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted a temporary injunction enforcing only the noncompete covenant; denied relief on the nonsolicit, confidentiality, and trade-secret claims.", "date_iso": "2026-03-12", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Protective Covenants Agreement executed 2024-06-07; Brenner's termination 2025-11-19; competitor CEO appointment announced 2026-01-26; evidentiary hearing 2026-02-23; trial scheduled 2027-01-11.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 13", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0012", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462462/25-bc03a-0012-gosecure-v-crowdstrike-2026-tex-bus-13.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted the special appearance and dismissed all claims against CrowdStrike, Inc. for lack of both general and specific personal jurisdiction.", "date_iso": "2026-03-13", "is_memorandum": false, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Prior California suit filed 2024-11; demurrer 2025-01; amended complaint 2025-05; second demurrer 2025-07; California suit dismissed and Texas suit filed 2025-08; hearing on special appearance and sanctions motion 2026-02-24.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 14", "cause_number": "25-BC04B-0007", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462494/25-bc04b-0007-may-v-ineos-usa-oil-gas-2026-tex-bus-14.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted partial summary judgment: the farmout/assignment contracts unambiguously created a fee-simple-determinable interest with specific reversion and back-in terms.", "date_iso": "2026-03-27", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Underlying farmout/assignment contracts executed 2009; hearing/argument 2026-02-24; order signed 2026-03-27.", "flags": [ "Signature block text was OCR-garbled in extraction ('RS SHARP STACY'); the typed name could not be cleanly confirmed beyond an apparent 'Sharp' fragment, consistent with the docket-assigned judge." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 15", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0049", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462546/25-bc01b-0049-dallas-sports-group-v-dse-hockey-club-2026-tex-bus-15.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied all five defense summary-judgment motions and granted plaintiffs' two motions, finding effective redemption and removing three board members.", "date_iso": "2026-04-02", "is_memorandum": false, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Redemption letter and tender 2024-10-25; redemption rejected 2024-11-01; default letter 2025-10-03; suit filed 2025-10-25; status conference 2026-02-26; oral argument on all seven motions 2026-03-06.", "flags": [ "Document ran long and two WebFetch passes could not retrieve the final page/signature block; judge identity relies on the court docket/batch assignment (Whitehill) and was not independently confirmed against the PDF's signature block or typed-name status." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 16", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0011", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462557/25-bc08a-0011-daimer-truck-financial-services-v-vanguard-national-trailer-corp-2026-tex-bus-16.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted the amended special appearance and dismissed all claims against the Vanguard defendants for lack of personal jurisdiction.", "date_iso": "2026-04-08", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": false, "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-11-03", "days_motion_to_ruling": 156, "other_dates_recited": "Response filed 2026-02-04; reply filed 2026-02-11; hearing 2026-02-18; KAL Trailers/KAL Freight bankruptcy filed 2024-12; Daimler's loans to KAL Freight 2022-2023.", "flags": [ "Opinion's own caption spells the plaintiff 'Daimler Truck Financial Services USA LLC'; the source citation/court-list entry spells it 'Daimer' — coded per the opinion, consistent with the court list's known misspelling issue." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 17", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0004", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "matter_type": "fees", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462558/26-bc11a-0004-energy-founders-fund-v-daskevich-2026-tex-bus-17.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied fee-advancement motion; though a board-approval condition was excused, the underlying claims did not arise by reason of director service.", "date_iso": "2026-04-09", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-09-04", "days_motion_to_ruling": 217, "other_dates_recited": "Board approved the sale transaction and the Fourth Company Agreement was adopted 2024-09 (same day suit was filed); case removed to Business Court 2026-01-20; case management conference 2026-03-03.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 18", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0004", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462563/26-bc11a-0004-energy-founders-fund-v-daskevich-2026-tex-bus-18.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted EFF's and Donovan's summary-judgment motions and denied the Daskeviches' cross-motions; unit transfers require only majority Board approval.", "date_iso": "2026-04-10", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Company Agreement dated 2020-03-03; EFF's motion filed 2025-04-14; Daskeviches' first cross-motion filed 2025-06-10; board vote on the transfer 2024-09-03; transaction closed 2024-11; Donovan's motion filed 2025-10-31; Daskeviches' further motion filed 2026-03-13.", "flags": [ "Four consolidated cross-motions for partial summary judgment carry different filing dates; no single motion-filed date controls the ruling, so left null per instructions rather than picking one." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 19", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0008", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "matter_type": "other", "disposition": "rendered", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462667/25-bc03a-0008-enosis-investments-v-jensen-2026-tex-bus-19.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Ruling on an early legal issue under Rule 166(g): no joint venture existed, and the non-managing/officer defendants owed no fiduciary duties.", "date_iso": "2026-04-23", "is_memorandum": false, "judge_signature_typed": true, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Initial discussions early 2021; LLC formation May 2021.", "flags": [ "Decided via a Joint Advisory on Early Legal Issues under Tex. R. Civ. P. 166(g), not a conventional dispositive motion; matter_type coded 'other' because the given taxonomy has no early-legal-issue category, and disposition coded 'rendered' rather than granted/denied since no single motion was granted or denied." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 20", "cause_number": "25-BC04B-0007", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "matter_type": "other", "disposition": "sustained", "threshold_or_merits": "na", "removal_remand": "none", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462668/25-bc04b-0007-may-v-ineos-usa-oil-gas-2026-tex-bus-20.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Sustained defense objections to plaintiffs' summary-judgment exhibits D through N as improper extrinsic evidence given the contract's facial unambiguity.", "date_iso": "2026-05-01", "is_memorandum": true, "judge_signature_typed": false, "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Court's prior memorandum opinion 2026-03-27; hearing 2026-04-28; opinion signed 2026-05-01.", "flags": [ "Ancillary evidentiary ruling (objections to summary-judgment exhibits) rather than a jurisdictional or classic merits-dispositive motion; threshold_or_merits coded 'na' and matter_type 'other' accordingly." ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 21", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0038", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-04", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-01-20", "days_motion_to_ruling": 104, "other_dates_recited": "Case filed Aug. 2025 (month only); defendants answered 2025 (month not stated); First Amended Petition filed Feb. 2026; loan agreement executed Sept. 2024; Employment Agreement effective Jan. 1, 2025; notice of investments early Feb. 2025; resignation/termination Feb. 28, 2025; collateral inspection requested May 5, 2025; default notice/acceleration July 22, 2025.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462666/25-bc01b-0038-thompson-v-anchor-capital-gp-2026-tex-bus-21.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied summary judgment on note, guaranty, and employment-agreement breach claims but granted declaratory judgment that Mann was not entitled to incentive compensation.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 22", "cause_number": "25-BC08B-0025", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-06", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Transaction closing Sept. 5, 2023; Dec. 31, 2023 deadline to reacquire interest; German's Oct. 29, 2024 statement re: backup plan; Put Right exercised Nov. 7, 2025; prior order referenced dated Apr. 21, 2026.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462690/25-bc08b-0025-the-mark-at-weatherford-owner-v-german-2026-tex-bus-22.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted summary judgment, holding fees owed at closing were a payable obligation whose default triggered the put-right provision.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 23", "cause_number": "26-BC11B-0040", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "date_iso": "2026-05-08", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-05-04", "days_motion_to_ruling": 4, "other_dates_recited": "Original suit filed in district court Feb. 20, 2026; TI hearing Apr. 7, 2026; Second Amended Petition/second TRO Apr. 22, 2026; case removed to Business Court Apr. 28, 2026; supplement filed May 5, 2026.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462705/26-bc11b-0040-aspire-commercial-v-stephenson-2026-tex-bus-23.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied remand: the 30-day removal deadline is an outer limit allowing removal before TI resolution; attorney argument alone couldn't rebut the amount.", "flags": [ "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (Judge Stagner of 8B, sitting by assignment)" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 24", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0049", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "fees", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "na", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-11", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Court ruled on seven dispositive motions Apr. 2, 2026; last three dispositive motions decided approx. one month later; conference with counsel on fees May 5, 2026; parties' stipulation delivered May 7, 2026.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462706/25-bc01b-0049-dallas-sports-group-v-dse-hockey-club-2026-tex-bus-24.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied fee-shifting for both sides, ordering each to bear its own attorney's fees after the parties waived further argument.", "flags": [ "mutual_fee_denial_each_side_bears_own_costs_not_a_single_binary_grant_or_deny" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 25", "cause_number": "25-BC04A-0015", "division": "4th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-12", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-02-27", "days_motion_to_ruling": 74, "other_dates_recited": "Plaintiff's response filed Mar. 16, 2026; hearing Apr. 15, 2026; Development Agreement term Apr. 13, 2017 to Aug. 30, 2020; project completed 2020; copyright infringement suit filed 2021; mediation 2023; federal court action filed 2024; federal dismissal Apr. 21, 2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462711/25-bc04a-0015-pradera-sfr-v-american-housing-ventures-2026-tex-bus-25.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied the plea to the jurisdiction, holding the amount in controversy satisfied the Business Court's subject-matter jurisdiction standard.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 26", "cause_number": "24-BC11B-0023", "division": "11th", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-13", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Opinion filed/entered 5/13/2026; service noted 5/14/2026.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462714/24-bc11b-0023-westlake-longview-v-eastman-chemical-2026-tex-bus-26.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment interpreting the Ethylene Sales Agreement's nomination, exchange, and tolling provisions under Delaware's good-faith covenant.", "flags": [ "motion_filing_date_not_recited_in_opinion", "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (Judge Andrews of 3rd Div., sitting by assignment)" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 27", "cause_number": "26-BC08A-0007", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "date_iso": "2026-05-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-03-27", "days_motion_to_ruling": 48, "other_dates_recited": "Lease executed Jul. 21, 2023; service on PR III Dec. 12, 2025; service on TCC Dec. 15, 2025; case removed to federal court then remanded Jan. 15, 2026; Answer/Counterclaim filed Mar. 3, 2026 (defendants argued this restarted the removal clock); TBC Removal Notice filed Mar. 10, 2026; pre-suit demand letter Mar. 7, 2024; defendants' response letter Mar. 21, 2024; damage accounting provided Mar. 24, 2025.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462717/26-bc08a-0007-drinkpak-v-priii-crow-building-c-2026-tex-bus-27.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted remand, finding removal untimely because pre-litigation demand letters had already established the amount in controversy despite Rule 408.", "flags": [ "judge_signature_block_blank_no_typed_name_present", "judge_identity_(Bullard)_inferred_from_cause_number_suffix_8A_per_official_court_roster_not_confirmed_by_document_text" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 28", "cause_number": "25-BC08B-0015", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-15", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-03-16", "days_motion_to_ruling": 60, "other_dates_recited": "Response filed Apr. 17, 2026; reply filed Apr. 21, 2026; hearing Apr. 28, 2026; joint advisory May 1, 2026; Rule 11 stipulations May 4, 2026; LLC formed 2017; Company Agreement effective Dec. 7, 2017; RivenRock's acquisition of interest late 2018.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462733/25-bc08b-0015-camino-real-developers-v-rivenrock-2026-tex-bus-28.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted summary judgment, holding a member's interest is inseparable from the company agreement and confirming the dilution mechanism's validity.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 29", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0024", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-16", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Hearing Feb. 23, 2026; Purchase Agreement dated Jan. 26, 2016.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462740/25-bc11a-0024-plains-pipeline-v-arrowhead-gulf-coast-holdings-2026-tex-bus-29.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted defendants summary judgment, holding expired indemnification provisions in the Purchase Agreement barred plaintiffs' claims under the plain contract language.", "flags": [ "cross_motions_were_pending_defendants_motion_granted_in_full_plaintiffs_motion_denied_in_full_coded_as_granted_for_defendants_motion" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 30", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0023", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "other", "disposition": "rendered", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-19", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Original Transaction Agreement effective Apr. 6, 2022; First Amendment effective May 2, 2022.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462750/25-bc01a-0023-cobalt-falcon-v-axs-investments-2026-tex-bus-30.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Ruling on a TRCP 166(g) contract-construction motion, court held the 'in perpetuity' payment clause requires continuation after fund closure absent contrary agreement.", "flags": [ "ruling_is_a_TRCP_166g_contract_construction_order_not_a_conventional_grant_or_deny_motion", "opinion_does_not_explicitly_name_which_party_filed_the_motion" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 31", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0083", "division": "11th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-20", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-12-23", "days_motion_to_ruling": 148, "other_dates_recited": "Plaintiffs' response filed Apr. 9, 2026; defendant's reply filed Apr. 16, 2026; hearing held Apr. 28, 2026.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462756/25-bc11a-0083-unimachts-global-v-ayr-energy-2026-tex-bus-31.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court denied Rule 91a dismissal, holding fiduciary-duty claims independent of trade-secret claims are not TUTSA-preempted and agent knowledge was imputable.", "flags": [ "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (Judge Barnard of 4A, sitting by assignment)" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 32", "cause_number": "26-BC11B-0003", "division": "11th", "judge": "Dorfman", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "date_iso": "2026-05-20", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Master Service Agreement executed 2003; services at issue performed Jul.-Aug. 2025.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462773/26-bc11b-0003-clean-co-systems-v-enterprise-products-operating-2026-tex-bus-32.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted remand, holding decades of historical purchase orders did not constitute a qualified transaction; only the disputed order's invoice counted.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 33", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0073", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": false, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "mixed", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-27", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Contracts effective Sept. 30, 2021; hearing May 6, 2026; first notice of dispute Aug. 2025 (per footnote); invoices at issue span 2022-2025.", "is_memorandum": false, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462778/25-bc11b-0073-dk-trading-supply-v-wink-to-webster-pipeline-2026-tex-bus-33.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court determined terminal storage allocation, applied ship-or-pay credits to deficiency calculations, and dismissed six invoice claims for untimely notice.", "flags": [ "judge_signature_block_shows_only_division_title_no_typed_name_legible_signature_is_a_graphic", "judge_identity_(Sharp)_relies_on_provided_docket_metadata_not_independently_confirmed_by_legible_document_text", "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (judge of 4th Div., sitting by assignment)" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 34", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0004", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "date_iso": "2026-05-29", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Company Agreement dated Mar. 3, 2020; transaction closing Nov. 15, 2024; GW Allen formed Sept. 3, 2024; prior partial summary judgment rulings Apr. 10, 2026 and Apr. 14, 2026.", "is_memorandum": true, "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462809/26-bc11a-0004-energy-founders-fund-v-daskevich-2026-tex-bus-34.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Court granted EFF's cross-motion, holding affiliate status requires present-tense control and post-closing governance rights don't retroactively create it.", "flags": [ "cross_motions_were_pending_Daskevichs_motion_denied_in_full_EFFs_cross_motion_granted_in_full_coded_as_granted_for_EFFs_motion", "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (Judge Stagner of 8B, sitting by assignment)" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 35", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0099", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sweeten", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-05-29", "other_dates_recited": "Employment ended 2025-07-25; TCHR charge filed 2025-10-31; original petition filed 2025-11-26; notice of removal filed 2025-12-22.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462806/25-bc11b-0099-brown-v-exxon-mobil-2026-tex-bus-35.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Held the discrimination claim wasn't an internal-affairs or qualified-transaction dispute, so the court lacked jurisdiction and remanded to district court.", "flags": [ "opinion cites 'Jan. 21, 2026' near the motion but does not clearly recite it as the motion's filing date; not coded as motion_filed_date_iso" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 36", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0049", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-06-03", "other_dates_recited": "Original petition filed 2025-10-28; redemption letter delivered 2024-10-25; DJ motion filed 2025-12-19; joinder order 2026-02-25; motion for leave filed 2026-02-11; summary judgment hearing 2026-03-06; prior summary judgment order 2026-04-02; orders at issue 2026-05-05; final judgment 2026-05-20.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462830/25-bc01b-0049-dallas-sports-group-v-dse-hockey-club-2026-tex-bus-36.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Held officer notice bound DSELP, its late joinder satisfied due process, and post-confirmation breach claims survived bankruptcy res judicata.", "flags": [ "opinion resolves several distinct motions (Rule 166(g) motion granted; joinder order; defendants' bankruptcy-based summary judgment motion denied); matter_type/disposition given reflect the overall multi-motion outcome, not a single dispositive motion" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 37", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0040", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-06-09", "other_dates_recited": "Prior related petitions filed 2019 and 2021 (federal court); amendment/replead deadline set for 2026-06-19.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462869/25-bc01a-0040-southwest-airlines-pilots-assoc-v-boeing-co-2026-tex-bus-37.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied summary judgment without prejudice; SWAPA's misrepresentation-to-plaintiff theory differs from federal design-defect cases and warranted a chance to replead.", "flags": [ "coded threshold_or_merits as merits (causation element of the claim) though the ruling is framed around pleading-notice adequacy, not jurisdiction/venue" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 38", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0061", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-06-09", "other_dates_recited": "2025 Employment Agreement effective 2025-01-01; hearing held 2026-04-27; Minnesota home purchase 2025-05-07; Southlake home sale June 2025.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462871/25-bc01a-0061-lunderby-v-dominium-dev-and-acquisition-2026-tex-bus-38.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Found the relocation clause ambiguous; denied both sides summary judgment, leaving a jury to decide if Lunderby satisfied it.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 39", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0039", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-05-05", "days_motion_to_ruling": 37, "date_iso": "2026-06-11", "other_dates_recited": "District court case originally filed December 2024; notice of removal filed 2026-04-22; expert report served 2026-03-23; hearing held 2026-06-04.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462877/26-bc11a-0039-south-shore-er-v-bashiri-2026-tex-bus-39.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied remand; venue clause didn't compel Galveston, removal was timely, and the court had original, not merely supplemental, jurisdiction.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 40", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0026", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": false, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "tcpa", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-06-15", "other_dates_recited": "TRO expiration referenced 2026-03-03; hearing held 2026-06-05.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462898/26-bc11a-0026-local-marketing-v-bennett-2026-tex-bus-40.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted the TCPA dismissal because McIvor failed to present clear and specific evidence of damages for her counterclaims.", "flags": [ "signature block is blank (no typed name); no judge surname appears anywhere in the document itself; judge value taken from the court's index/citation metadata, not confirmed by the PDF text" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 41", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0038", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-07-01", "other_dates_recited": "Default notice dated 2025-07-22; prior memorandum opinion on plaintiffs' motion 2026-05-04; order on reconsideration 2026-06-18.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462998/25-bc01b-0038-thompson-v-anchor-capital-gp-2026-tex-bus-41.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted partial summary judgment; under the Reves factors the promissory note was a commercial loan, not a security.", "flags": [ "source tool labeled this 'threshold'; recoded as merits here per the task's definition, since it decides substantive rights under the Texas Securities Act rather than who/what belongs in this court" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 42", "cause_number": "26-BC04A-0005", "division": "4th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-07-08", "other_dates_recited": "Original lawsuit filed 2024-08-01; Bavarian suit filed 2025-10-08; Kendall County transfer 2025-12-02; MS Offer issued 2026-02-05; MS Offer rejected 2026-04-04; case filed 2026-04-03; hearing held 2026-06-04.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463034/26-bc04a-0005-kampmann-v-smith-2026-tex-bus-42.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Largely denied the jurisdictional plea, abatement, and transfer motions; pleaded damages exceeded $5 million and the suits weren't inherently interrelated.", "flags": [ "decretal paragraph denies the plea to the jurisdiction 'as to Count One (in part), Count Two, and Three'; the precise scope of the partial denial/grant as to Count One is not fully resolved from the excerpts read, so disposition is coded granted_in_part out of caution" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 43", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0023", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-07-14", "other_dates_recited": "AXS ceased payments December 2024; payment records span May 2022 to March 2026.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463059/25-bc01a-0023-cobalt-falcon-v-axs-investments-2026-tex-bus-43.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment on breach of contract liability; all four affirmative defenses failed for lack of evidence, damages left for trial.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 45", "cause_number": "25-BC03A-0020", "division": "3d", "judge": "Andrews", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-07-14", "other_dates_recited": "Temple founded 2007; 2024 board formed 2024; 2025 bylaws adopted 2025-07-13; disputed election held 2025-11-08 to 2025-11-10.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463060/25-bc03a-0020-sri-shirdi-sai-baba-temple-of-austin-v-lam-2026-tex-bus-45.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Denied plaintiffs' and granted defendants' summary judgment; the certificate of formation, not later bylaws, controls the nonprofit's management structure.", "flags": [ "court list caption omits 'Baba'; opinion caption reads 'Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple of Austin'" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 44", "cause_number": "25-BC04B-0010", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": false, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-06-09", "days_motion_to_ruling": 36, "date_iso": "2026-07-15", "other_dates_recited": "Wind-up supervisor appointed 2025-06-13; property sale order 2026-04-17; response filed 2026-06-30; reply filed 2026-07-06; hearing held 2026-07-07.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463058/25-bc04b-0010-stratton-v-hogan-2026-tex-bus-44.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Dismissed the conversion counterclaim for lack of individual injury under Rule 91a; the promissory-note contract claim survived dismissal.", "flags": [ "signature block is blank (no typed name); no judge surname appears anywhere in the document itself; judge value taken from the court's index/citation metadata, not confirmed by the PDF text" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 46", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0031", "division": "11th", "judge": "Dorfman", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": false, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "mixed", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-07-15", "other_dates_recited": "Church meeting/vote 2023-05-31; case filed in district court 2025-04-15; removed to Business Court 2025-06-09.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463075/25-bc11b-0031-jeremiah-counsel-v-young-2026-tex-bus-46.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Church autonomy barred the fraud and derivative claims, plaintiff lacked derivative standing, and one bylaws amendment was upheld while another failed.", "flags": [ "opinion resolves cross-motions for summary judgment on five distinct sub-issues with mixed threshold (church autonomy, standing) and merits (amendment validity) rulings; matter_type/threshold_or_merits reflect the closest single-value fit, not a single holding" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 47", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0011", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "discovery_protective", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "na", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "date_iso": "2026-07-16", "other_dates_recited": "Initial phone call 2025-10-28; second phone call 2025-11-20; deposition 2026-02-03; status conference 2026-02-19; hearing 2026-04-08; discovery deadline 2026-04-10.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463079/25-bc01b-0011-synergy-thermogen-v-blackbruch-oil-gas-2026-tex-bus-47.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Ordered defendant to produce call notes under an attorneys-eyes-only designation; the notes weren't privileged work product and plaintiff showed sufficient need.", "flags": [ "threshold_or_merits coded na: a discovery/work-product ruling, neither a jurisdiction-type threshold ruling nor a decision on substantive claim rights" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 48", "cause_number": "26-BC01B-0025", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "is_memorandum": true, "matter_type": "special_appearance_pj", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-05-01", "days_motion_to_ruling": 81, "date_iso": "2026-07-21", "other_dates_recited": "Underlying transaction occurred 2025; letter dated 2025-10-10; asset acquisition November 2025; oral argument held 2026-07-16.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463087/26-bc01b-0025-cwk-management-v-maggi-2026-tex-bus-48.pdf", "holding_one_line": "Granted the special appearance; the nonresident manager lacked minimum contacts with Texas, so claims against him were dismissed without prejudice.", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 49", "cause_number": "25-BC11B-0088", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-07-22", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-06-02", "days_motion_to_ruling": 50, "other_dates_recited": "Response filed June 23, 2026; reply filed June 30, 2026; oral argument held July 8, 2026; underlying agreement dated April 8, 2025; notice of default October 1, 2025; agreement terminated October 7, 2025.", "holding_one_line": "Land-sale agreement unenforceable for indefinite legal description under the statute of frauds; a future survey could not cure the defect.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463090/25-bc11b-0088-village-crossing-v-west-creek-investments-2026-tex-bus-49.pdf", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 50", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0013", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-07-24", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Five separate motions/joinder filed March 11, 20, 23, 24, and 25, 2026; underlying 2022 Alliance Program Agreement; alleged kickback reports from 2016 and 2018; AT&T partial nonsuit notices filed April 3, 2026; omnibus order dated July 7, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment on fraud-inducement claims against FiberWave and related parties; contractual ambiguity in vesting terms left a fact question for trial.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463093/25-bc01a-0013-fiberwave-v-att-enterprises-2026-tex-bus-50.pdf", "flags": [ "multiple_motions_decided_with_different_filing_dates_no_single_motion_date_recited", "multi_party_omnibus_order_disposition_simplified" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 51", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0064", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-07-28", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Consolidated with cause 26-BC01B-0019; response filed June 2, 2026; an earlier motion filed March 26, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Held email and UPS next-day delivery satisfied certified-mail notice requirements as an alternative method under the deed of trust.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463096/25-bc01b-0064-revere-tactical-opportunities-fund-iv-v-lee-wen-2026-tex-bus-51.pdf", "flags": [ "consolidated_case_26-BC01B-0019", "two_motions_with_different_filing_dates_no_single_motion_date_recited", "matter_type_judgment_call_rule_166g_coded_as_summary_judgment" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 52", "cause_number": "25-BC08A-0012", "division": "8th", "judge": "Bullard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-07-29", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-03-13", "days_motion_to_ruling": 138, "other_dates_recited": "Married 1998; divorce filed 2016; divorce decree finalized September 2021; capital calls March 2025, August 2025, and February 2026; Unit Transfer Agreements entered June 2025; lawsuit filed June 2025; interlocutory order issued April 30, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Held the divorce decree extinguished fiduciary duties between the parties; no breach of the tag-along or capital-call disclosure provisions.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463100/25-bc08a-0012-simpson-v-simpson-2026-tex-bus-52.pdf", "flags": [ "both_competing_motions_filed_same_date_used_for_motion_filed_date" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 53", "cause_number": "26-BC08B-0011", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-07-29", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Contract dated October 1, 2024; final plat recorded January 30, 2025; summary judgment hearing held (specific date not stated in opinion).", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment holding the land-sale contract violated the statute of frauds because it could not identify the specific lots with reasonable certainty when signed.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463097/26-bc08b-0011-riverside-homebuilders-v-fg-aledo-development-2026-tex-bus-53.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 54", "cause_number": "26-BC08B-0009", "division": "8th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-07-29", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-06-22", "days_motion_to_ruling": 37, "other_dates_recited": "Divorce decree October 2019; receivership appointment April 11, 2024; Equity Purchase Agreement executed October 21, 2025; court of appeals reversal/vacatur December 9, 2025; substituted appellate opinion January 15, 2026; hearing on the motion July 14, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Held the receiver retains derived judicial immunity from suit; claims against the receiver-created entities survived the Rule 91a motion to dismiss.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463098/26-bc08b-0009-fischer-v-fischer-2026-tex-bus-54.pdf", "flags": [ "matter_type_judgment_call_derived_judicial_immunity_coded_as_jurisdiction_threshold_rather_than_dismissal_91a_merits" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 55", "cause_number": "26-BC01B-0067", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-08-05", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-08-03", "days_motion_to_ruling": 2, "other_dates_recited": "Conference on the emergency motion held August 3, 2026; respondent entered an option agreement for the Valley View Mall property in June 2026; Adelson family began pursuing new arena development in 2024.", "holding_one_line": "Denied the emergency motion to remand a removed Rule 202 pre-suit deposition petition; the anticipated action fell within Business Court jurisdiction.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463161/26-bc01b-0067-in-re-radical-hoops-2026-tex-bus-55.pdf", "flags": [] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 56", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0024", "division": "11th", "judge": "Stagner", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-08-10", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "ExxonMobil decided to replace contractors in November 2023; Daley's nonparty deposition August 26, 2025; discovery deadline extended to November 10, 2025; third amended petition filed November 26, 2025; Chambers County trial held January 28 to February 17, 2026; this action filed March 16, 2026; Chambers County final judgment signed March 17, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment for Brown & Root on claim-preclusion grounds from a prior Chambers County judgment; denied Daley's competing preclusion motion.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463179/26-bc11a-0024-cam-industrial-solutions-v-brown-root-industrial-services-2026-tex-bus-56.pdf", "flags": [ "two_competing_motions_different_filing_dates_brown_root_apr27_daley_jun12_no_single_motion_date_recited", "threshold_merits_judgment_call_claim_preclusion_coded_as_merits" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 57", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0012", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-08-12", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Hearing held June 2, 2026; underlying transaction dated May 24, 2023; conversion notice dated August 28, 2023.", "holding_one_line": "Dismissed the conversion claim with prejudice; uncertificated LLC membership interests are not subject to a conversion cause of action.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463181/26-bc11a-0012-carrington-v-corsi-2026-tex-bus-57.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 58", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0017", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": false, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-08-12", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Hearing held May 13, 2026; initial Denbury investment September 2022; second Denbury investment May 2023; Exxon's acquisition of Denbury November 2023.", "holding_one_line": "Dismissed the Louisiana Monopolization Act claim on Rule 91a review; the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act claim survived dismissal.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "low", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463182/25-bc11a-0017-clean-hydrogen-works-v-denbury-carbon-solutions-2026-tex-bus-58.pdf", "flags": [ "judge_signature_block_blank_no_typed_name", "judge_name_taken_from_court_docket_list_not_confirmed_anywhere_in_opinion_text", "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 59", "cause_number": "25-BC01B-0030", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "summary_judgment", "disposition": "granted_in_part", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2026-08-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2025-10-27", "days_motion_to_ruling": 291, "other_dates_recited": "Initial lawsuit filed May 2023; parties agreed to refile in Business Court July 2025; bond indenture executed January 2017; project completion late 2017; initial default discovered 2019; Truist's resignation as trustee July 2019.", "holding_one_line": "Held the bond documents did not create an express trust; trustee's monitoring and notice duties were defined by contract, not the Trust Code.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463192/25-bc01b-0030-preston-hollow-capital-v-truist-bank-2026-tex-bus-59.pdf", "flags": [ "matter_type_judgment_call_rule_166g_coded_as_summary_judgment" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 60", "cause_number": "25-BC11A-0083", "division": "11th", "judge": "Barnard", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "discovery_protective", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "na", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-08-17", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Protective order signed March 18, 2026; hearing held July 29, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Denied India-based counsel access to attorney's-eyes-only discovery materials given the risk of inadvertent disclosure to a competitor manufacturer.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463192/25-bc11a-0083-unimachts-global-v-ayr-energy-2026-tex-bus-60.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion", "pdf_media_id_1463192_shared_with_seq59_source_url_but_content_confirmed_distinct_and_correct_on_fetch" ] } ] }