Supreme Court of Texas - August 2002 Opinion Summaries

IN RE: TEXAS NATURAL RES. CONSERVATION COMM'N

Civil Procedure
A district court may not extend a temporary restraining order by forty-two days without the restrained party's consent, under Texas Rules of Civil...

TEXAS FARM BUREAU MUT. INS. CO. v. SEARS

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
To find that an insurance company owed its at-will independent agent a common law duty of ordinary care, in investigating the agent's alleged...

CAMPBELL v. STATE OF TEXAS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Medical certificates described in the Mental Health Code were not a prerequisite to a trial court hearing under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure...

KING v. DALLAS FIRE INS. CO.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer's alleged negligent hiring, training, and supervision can constitute an "occurrence" under the terms of a commercial liability policy,...

CENTEX HOMES v. BUECHER

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
The implied warranty of habitability and good and workmanlike construction that accompany a new home sale can be disclaimed if the parties' agreement...

BENTLEY v. BUNTON

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
A call-in television talk show host's defamatory statements of a judge's corruption were not constitutionally protected opinion, but a mental anguish...

THE JOHN G. AND MARIE STELLA KENEDY MEM'L FOUND. v. DEWHURST

Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute over the location of the shoreline boundary of two early nineteenth-century land grants, the shoreline boundary is to be set at measured...

STATE OF TEXAS v. HODGES

Constitutional Law, Elections
Section 162.015 of the Texas Election Code cannot reasonably be construed to permit a judge to be a Democratic Party general election candidate when...