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AUSTIN – A number of tort reform measures were heard yesterday by Texas House members, including bills on public nuisance, loser pays and paid or incurred.
The Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee spent the better part of the day listening to testimony. About forty minutes into the session, House Bill 2144 was discussed.
Authored by Rep. Cody Harris, HB 2144 seeks to ensure that the tort of public nuisance is clearly defined and consistent with its traditional purpose.
“The Texas economic miracle is built on low taxes … and legal reform – the last thing we need to do is return to the day when Texas was the world’s courtroom where money-hungry plaintiff’s attorneys filed one frivolous lawsuit after another,” Harris told committee members. “House Bill 2144 will keep Texas a national leader in legal reform and will stop activist attorneys from abusing public nuisance lawsuits.
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HOUSTON Today, the Harris County Attorney’s Office filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the Texas Supreme Court opposing the Electricity Reliability Cooperative of Texas’s argument that it is entitled to governmental immunity (which would bar most people from suing ERCOT).
The brief warns were the court to grant the ERCOT immunity, ERCOT could use that ruling to oppose lawsuits by residents in the wake of Winter Storm Uri and the collapse of the energy grid, a press release states.
ERCOT is a private entity that has managed the Texas power grid since the grid’s deregulation in 1999. Despite the fact that it is not a government entity, in a fraud case currently before the Texas Supreme Court, ERCOT argues that it is protected from suit by governmental immunity.
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