Strictly Business

Texas' leading legal blog covering the Business Courts and Fifteenth Court of Appeals (until someone else starts one).

Litigation in the Texas Business Court and the Fifteenth Court of Appeals

  • SCOTX: You Can’t Just Pick Your Court of Appeal, Even if it’s Business Litigation (Guest Post)

    This post was contributed by Mr. Tim Delabar of Cokinos Young. More information about Mr. Delabar can be found at the bottom of the article. In a consolidated opinion, the Texas Supreme Court stepped into the fray and resolved disputes between the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Court of Appeals about the jurisdiction of the

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  • Business Court Remand Subject to Mandamus (For Now), But Not Appeal

    Well, it’s been a quiet few months here at Strictly Business–because it’s been a quiet few months at the Business Court (at least, in terms of opinions). So far, the Court has issued 16 opinions statewide, and most of them have essentially just been the same opinion, saying that TBC doesn’t have jurisdiction over cases

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  • TBC: No JX Over Suits Filed Before 9/1/2024

    We have the first five opinions of the Texas Business Court and they’re… basically all the same opinion. TL;DR: cases filed before September 1, 2024 are outside the jurisdiction of the Business Court. Let’s talk about House Bill 19. House Bill 19 was the Act that created the Texas Business Courts, and in large part

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  • Texas Business Court Local Rules: Everything’s Bigger in Texas–Except the Word Count (Guest Blog)

    This post was contributed by Ms. Daniela Peinado Welsh of Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, PC in Austin, Texas. More information about Ms. Peinado Welsh can be found at the end of the post. Dear Colleagues, A new court is open for business in Texas, and it has adopted local rules of practice and procedure.  For

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  • Early Adopters: Who’s Litigating in Business Court? (Part I)

    The Business Court began operating on September 1, 2024, so today marks the end of the first month of its existence. Thus far, it’s looking like the Court is getting started with more of a trickle than a flood–likely a welcome development for the Judges of the new courts, and one that stands in stark

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  • Dinner with the Judiciary – Insights on the Texas Business Courts (Guest Blog)

    This post was contributed by Mr. Ian Ross Phillips of Cole Schotz PC. More information about Mr. Phillips can be found at the end of the post. On September 17, 2024, the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers hosted a dinner with a distinguished panel of judges to discuss the newly established business courts in Texas.

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  • Judicial Profile: 15th COA Chief Justice Scott Brister

    The 15th Court of Appeals’ initial Chief Justice is the Hon. Scott Brister. He has served at nearly every level of the Texas judicial system. He presided for 11 years over the 234th Judicial District Court for Harris County, Texas, before being elected to the First Court of Appeals [Houston] in 2000. In 2001, he

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  • Whose law is it anyway?

    One of the biggest questions lingering as we await the first opinions of both the Business Court of Texas and the Fifteenth Court of Appeals is where, exactly, these courts will look to find precedent. The only obviously binding answer is the Supreme Court of Texas. David Coale (of www.600camp.com fame) authored an excellent article

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