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December 14, 2021
The rule in Texas (and other states) is that setting a booby trap is permissible if and only if the facts are such that the property owner could have used same force and inflicted the...
December 10, 2021
The Texas Supreme Court has granted petition for review of a 2019 decision in Dyer et al v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality . At issue is whether rescission of a Railroad...
December 7, 2021
How many different meanings can parties attribute to a term in an oil and gas lease?  Answer: As many as they want, but the court will only use one, says King Operating et al v. Double...
December 6, 2021
In real life (and especially, it seems, in tax law) it is more like to be the lack of a timely piece of paper that causes the taxpayer to lose. In the course of...
December 2, 2021
In resolving a dispute over post-production cost deductions from oil and gas royalties (PPC’s), the court in Shirlaine West Properties Ltd et al v. Jamestown Resources, LLC and Total...
December 1, 2021
On November 30, 2021, the Fifth Circuit parted ways with the taxpayer friendly decision of the Ninth Circuit that non-willful penalties are capped at $10,000 per FBAR filing instead of...
November 26, 2021
Texas legislatures are among the lowest paid in the nation. They make only $7,200 a year plus a per diem when they are in session. Texas also has one of the shortest legislative sessions in the country, usually only working for about six months every two years no counting special sessions. If someone wanted to serve in the legislature and do no other work, they would be making roughly minimum wage.
November 22, 2021
Ammonite Oil and Gas Corporation v. Railroad Commission of Texas illustrates the difficulties faced by lessees attempting to force-pool a tract under the Mineral Interest Pooling Act. ...
November 7, 2021
On August 11, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that Apple Inc. infringed several patents owned by Optis Wireless Technology, LLC and other
November 5, 2021
On November 4, 2021, OSHA issued its much anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring employers to implement policies mandating either COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly...