Supreme Court of Texas - July 2002 Opinion Summaries

UTTS v. SHORT

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a wrongful death case, the record triggered a rebuttable presumption that a non-settling defendant is entitled to settlement credits against the...

IN THE INTEREST OF C.H.

Civil Procedure, Family Law
Parental termination findings must be upheld against a factual sufficiency challenge, if evidence allows a reasonable jury to believe that grounds...

AM. TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION, INC. v. COLEMAN

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
A District of Columbia corporation, with its principal place of business in Maryland, did not have sufficient minimum contacts with Texas to justify...

GARZA v. TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMM'N

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law
Where the district court did not render a timely judgment in a liquor license proceeding within the ten-day period under Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code...

SOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAM, INC. v. GIL-PEREZ

Injury & Tort Law, Sports Law
Where a boys' home operator's failure to provide protective equipment, for use during a football game, is the only alleged causal nexus underlying...

CARPENTER v. CIMARRON HYDROCARBONS CORP.

Civil Procedure
Where civil procedure rules provided the plaintiff opportunity to obtain leave to file a late response to a summary-judgment motion, the court erred...

ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORP. v. THOMPSON

Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A well that is capable of production sustains a gas mining lease, even where actual production ceases longer than sixty days, thus such cessations did...