Personal Injury & Tort

Texas 2nd Court of Appeals, Personal Injury & Tort, Real Estate

Griffith v. Steele — Texas appeals court affirms dismissal of legal malpractice claim as time-barred because Hughes tolling ended when adversary proceeding appeals were exhausted, not when the overall bankruptcy case concluded

automatic / June 24, 2026

Case Ray Douglas Griffith v. Lindsay D. Steele and Steele Law Firm PLLC Court Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District […]

U.S. District Court — Southern District of Texas, Breach of Contract, Personal Injury & Tort

Grupo Gusi v. Select Transport Partners — Negligence and bailment claims against freight broker preempted by federal law; contract claim survives preemption but dismissed for inadequate pleading

automatic / June 23, 2026

Case Grupo Gusi S. de P.R. de R.L. de C.V. v. Select Transport Partners, LLC, et al. Court U.S. District […]

U.S. District Court — Southern District of Texas, Personal Injury & Tort

Compania General de Combustibles v. RGR Global Logistics — Court denies Union Pacific’s motion to dismiss cargo-destruction negligence claim and orders counsel to produce a cited case the court cannot locate, raising AI hallucination concerns

automatic / June 23, 2026

Case Compania General de Combustibles S.A., et al. v. RGR Global Logistics, LLC, et al. Court U.S. District Court, Southern […]

Texas 13th Court of Appeals, Personal Injury & Tort, Real Estate

Texas Cordia Construction v. Cantu — Private Government Contractor Cannot Invoke Interlocutory Appeal as “Governmental Unit”; Derivative Sovereign Immunity Fact Question Survives Plea to Jurisdiction

automatic / June 8, 2026

The Thirteenth Court of Appeals dismissed a private contractor’s interlocutory appeal of a denied plea to the jurisdiction because a private LLC is not a “governmental unit” under § 51.014(a)(8); treating the filing as a mandamus petition, the court denied relief because the contractor’s own contract gave it sole responsibility for means and methods of construction, raising a fact question that defeats derivative sovereign immunity — a doctrine the Texas Supreme Court has not yet adopted.

Texas 2nd Court of Appeals, Civil Procedure, Personal Injury & Tort

Allen v. Bell Textron — Plaintiff Who Tells Court He Has No Additional Facts and Won’t Replead Forfeits Chance to Expand Negligence Theories After Special Exceptions Sustained

automatic / June 8, 2026

The Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed a take-nothing judgment for Bell Textron after an injured contractor’s counsel stated at a special-exceptions hearing he had no additional facts and would not replead, holding the plaintiff forfeited his opportunity to amend, the narrow jury charge was proper, and any collateral-source evidence error was harmless because the jury found no proximate cause.