Tag: suretyship

October 8, 2025, opinions

October 9, 2025

Designated for publication Elrod, C.J. (Elrod, Clement, Haynes) (no oral argument), Rooker-Feldman doctrine, personal tort, defamation Vacating Rooker-Feldman-based dismissal of plaintiff attorney’s defamation claims against defendant attorneys who had represented the plaintiff’s client’s employer in underlying Title IX claims brought by plaintiff’s client arising from alleged sexual assault and harassment of university students by university’s … More October 8, 2025, opinions

January 12, 2023, opinions

January 13, 2023

Designated for publication Southwick, J. (Higginbotham, Southwick, Higginson), Texas Water Code, suretyship Affirming summary judgment in favor of surety on issue regarding whether private developers were entitled to offset for liquidated damages related to delay in completion of the projects, where offset was provided for by Texas Water Code for “district contract[s].” While a municipal … More January 12, 2023, opinions

October 3, 2022, opinions

October 4, 2022

Designated for publication per curiam (Jolly, Higginson, Engelhardt), Engelhardt, J., concurring; insurance, remand, diversity jurisdiction, removal Affirming denial of motion for remand, but reversing summary judgment in favor of insurer on coverage dispute arising from insurer’s denial of plaintiff’s Hurricane Harvey-related property damage coverage claims on the basis of an exclusion for pre-existing wear and … More October 3, 2022, opinions

April 4, 2022, opinions

April 5, 2022

Designated for publication Penn-America Insurance Co. v. Tarango Trucking, L.L.C., 21-10749, appeal from N.D. Tex. Davis, J. (Davis, Willett, Oldham), insurance Reversing in part and vacating in part judgment that insurer did not owe defense or indemnity regarding fatal accident on insured’s property, finding that an exception to a policy automobile exclusion applied. An independent … More April 4, 2022, opinions