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Bus. 1", "cause_number": "24-BC01B-0005", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "date_iso": "2024-10-30", "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": 20, "holding_one_line": "Business Court held it lacked jurisdiction over a case commenced before September 1, 2024, ordering remand to the original Dallas district court.", "source_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/bus-crt-tex/116849617.html", "coded_from": "secondary", "confidence": "medium", "flags": [ "official PDF unreadable via fetch; coded from FindLaw reproduction", "citation number corroborated externally, not stated in reproduced text" ] }, { "citation": "2024 Tex. 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Bus. 4", "cause_number": "24-BC04B-0001", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": true, "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": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "holding_one_line": "Business Court lacked jurisdiction because HB 19 applies only to actions commenced on or after September 1, 2024, requiring remand.", "source_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/bus-crt-tex/116858850.html", "coded_from": "secondary", "confidence": "low", "flags": [ "primary PDF 404 at both located media URLs", "coded entirely from FindLaw reproduction", "caption reconciliation incomplete", "third candidate official URL (media/1459668 named file) also 404s as of 2026-08-24; FindLaw reproduction remains the source" ] }, { "citation": "2024 Tex. 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" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 61", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0054", "division": "11th", "judge": "Adrogué", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_denied", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-09-11", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-06-26", "days_motion_to_ruling": 77, "other_dates_recited": "Original petition and temporary-injunction application filed April 3, 2026; TRO granted April 6, 2026; First Amended Petition April 21, 2026; amended TRO and expedited-discovery order April 22, 2026; Second Amended Petition May 6, 2026; temporary injunction granted in part May 28, 2026; Third Amended Petition and plaintiff's notice of removal May 29, 2026; status conference June 8, 2026; response filed July 6, 2026; hearing July 20, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Denied remand; plaintiff's removal one day after the temporary-injunction ruling was timely, and defendants offered no evidence rebutting the pleaded amount over $5 million.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463322/26-bc11a-0054-dhannani-v-batool-2026-tex-bus-61.pdf", "flags": [ "scanned PDF with OCR text layer; signature block and key dates confirmed against the rendered page images (typed name 'Hon. ... Adrogué', 'Texas Business Court, Eleventh Division')", "removing party was the plaintiff; the motion to remand was filed by defendants", "court list heading misprints the citation as '2026 Tex, Bus. 61'; PDF reads 2026 Tex. Bus. 61" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 62", "cause_number": "26-BC04B-0009", "division": "4th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "jurisdiction_threshold", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2026-09-04", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-07-15", "days_motion_to_ruling": 47, "other_dates_recited": "Kendall County litigation began 2012; Kendall County receivership imposed 2018; petition for review No. 26-0328 (Tex. May 13, 2026) cited; Motion to Appoint a Receiver filed June 19, 2026; Defendants' verified response and alternative motion for abatement filed July 13, 2026; Plaintiffs' reply and Defendants' motion to strike filed July 20, 2026; Plaintiffs' response to the plea and Defendants' supplemental brief filed August 5, 2026; written order granting the plea signed August 31, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Granted the plea to the jurisdiction; the Kendall County court's existing receivership gives it exclusive jurisdiction over the partnerships, so the suit was dismissed without prejudice.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463312/26-bc04b-0009-parker-v-lynzara-austin-real-estate-management-2026-tex-bus-62.pdf", "flags": [ "days measured to the recited disposing order (2026-08-31), not the September 4 written opinion, per dataset method note; measured to the opinion date it would be 51", "motion_filed_date_iso is the filing date of Defendants' 'brief contesting the court's jurisdiction or, in the alternative, plea in abatement' (July 15, 2026), which the opinion treats as the plea to the jurisdiction; the brief followed the court's request for jurisdictional briefing after defendants raised jurisdiction in the proposed scheduling order", "opinion also denies Defendants' motion to strike Plaintiffs' reply brief (filed July 20, 2026); disposition reflects the plea", "court did not reach the amount-in-controversy challenge or the alternative dominant-jurisdiction abatement request" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 63", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0053", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sharp", "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": "2026-09-14", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-07-31", "days_motion_to_ruling": 45, "other_dates_recited": "Hinds removed as co-manager March 2026 and expelled as member the following month; special-meeting request April 29, 2026, with notice delivered the next day for a May 11 meeting; hearing held (date not stated).", "holding_one_line": "Dismissed most of Hinds's claims under Rule 91a given the company agreement's limits on managers' fiduciary duties; the special-meeting contract claim and willful-misconduct fiduciary claims survived.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463329/26-bc11a-0053-hinds-v-sandman-offshore-2026-tex-bus-63.pdf", "flags": [ "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (Judge Sharp of 4th Div.); this opinion's signature block reads only 'Judge of the Texas Business Court, Fourth Division' with no 'sitting by assignment' notation, though the same cause's companion order (2026 Tex. Bus. 66) states 'Fourth Division, sitting by assignment'", "both_motions_filed_same_date_used_for_motion_filed_date (Sandman's and Wegner's partial Rule 91a motions, July 31, 2026)", "Hinds's and EnviroCore's Rule 91a motions against the counterclaims were taken under advisement here and decided in 2026 Tex. Bus. 66", "court declined to award Rule 91a attorney's fees to any party" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 64", "cause_number": "26-BC03A-0027", "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": "2026-09-15", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Suit on sworn account filed May 19, 2026; Defendant's counterclaims (over $60 million) filed July 1, 2026; Plaintiffs' notice of removal filed July 29, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Denied remand; the 30-day removal clock ran from the filing of counterclaims that first put more than $5 million in controversy, not from pre-suit threats to bring them.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463334/26-bc03a-0027-the-bakery-v-naterra-intl-2026-tex-bus-64.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion", "removing parties were the plaintiffs; the motion to remand was Defendant Naterra's", "opinion distinguishes DrinkPAK v. PRIII/Crow Building C, 2026 Tex. Bus. 27 (8th Div.)" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 65", "cause_number": "26-BC01B-0018", "division": "1st", "judge": "Whitehill", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": false, "date_iso": "2026-09-22", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Beard joined Perot Jain September 2015 and left July 2020; Access Healthcare sold January 2025; order denying Beard's motion to remand June 2, 2026; hearing July 21, 2026; order granting the motion to dismiss signed August 10, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Dismissed all claims with prejudice under Rule 91a; the separation agreement's releases, reliance disclaimers and merger clauses defeated the fraud and oral-contract claims over a carried-interest promote.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463368/26-bc01b-0018-beard-v-perot-2026-tex-bus-65.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion", "disposing order recited as August 10, 2026; written opinion issued September 22, 2026 at plaintiff's request (TRCP 360(a)(1)); no days computed because the motion date is not recited", "the motion decided was defendants' second Rule 91a motion, directed at the First Amended Petition; neither motion's filing date is recited", "attorney's-fee issue reserved for further consideration" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 66", "cause_number": "26-BC11A-0053", "division": "11th", "judge": "Sharp", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "dismissal_91a_merits", "disposition": "denied", "threshold_or_merits": "merits", "removal_remand": "none", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-09-24", "motion_filed_date_iso": "2026-08-10", "days_motion_to_ruling": 45, "other_dates_recited": "Wyotex bid accepted June 2025; EnviroCore invoice August 2025; Wyotex's $1,000,000 lease payment due October 16, 2025; prior opinion in this cause 2026 Tex. Bus. 63; hearing held (date not stated).", "holding_one_line": "Denied Rule 91a dismissal of Sandman's counterclaims and overruled alternative special exceptions, declining to hold that Texas law bars an aiding-and-abetting claim.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463382/26-bc11a-0053-hinds-v-sandman-offshore-2026-tex-bus-66.pdf", "flags": [ "cross-sitting noted in division label: 11th Div. (Judge Sharp of 4th Div., sitting by assignment)", "both_motions_filed_same_date_used_for_motion_filed_date (Hinds's and EnviroCore's Rule 91a motions, August 10, 2026)", "Wegner nonsuited his counterclaims and Sandman amended its counterclaims before the hearing; Hinds agreed the amended constructive-trust claim cured his objections, so those issues were not decided", "court declined to award Rule 91a attorney's fees" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 67", "cause_number": "26-BC01A-0062", "division": "1st", "judge": "Bouressa", "judge_signature_typed": true, "matter_type": "remand_removal", "disposition": "granted", "threshold_or_merits": "threshold", "removal_remand": "remand_granted", "is_memorandum": true, "date_iso": "2026-09-25", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Removed by Defendant Miller from the 134th District Court, Dallas County, July 17, 2026; ranch indebtedness of approximately $1.74 million stated as of July 17, 2026.", "holding_one_line": "Granted remand; unrebutted evidence that the ranch was heavily encumbered showed the amount in controversy did not exceed $5 million.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "high", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463387/26-bc01a-0062-runner-runner-v-blpp-holdings-2026-tex-bus-67.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion", "Miller's Motion to Strike (filed with his remand response) is not separately ruled on in the decretal paragraph" ] }, { "citation": "2026 Tex. Bus. 68", "cause_number": "25-BC01A-0040", "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": "2026-09-28", "motion_filed_date_iso": null, "days_motion_to_ruling": null, "other_dates_recited": "Prior summary-judgment motion on the same grounds denied without prejudice in 2026 Tex. Bus. 37.", "holding_one_line": "Granted summary judgment on SWAPA's consequential damages for lack of proximate cause; claims for direct damages remain pending.", "coded_from": "pdf", "confidence": "medium", "source_url": "https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1463401/25-bc01a-0040-southwest-airlines-pilots-assoc-v-boeing-co-2026-tex-bus-68.pdf", "flags": [ "motion_filed_date_not_recited_in_opinion", "disposition judgment call: the decretal paragraph says the renewed motion is 'GRANTED', but Boeing sought judgment on all claims and the court granted it 'as to SWAPA's pleaded consequential damages only', leaving direct-damages claims pending; coded granted_in_part", "interlocutory order; follow-on to 2026 Tex. Bus. 37 in the same cause" ] } ] }