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Texas Business Court Decision – December 18, 2025

No. 25-BC04B-0014    Sandra Hensarling v. J. George Carmichael, et al. (Fourth Div., Judge Sharp)  25-bc04b-0014-hensarling-v-carmichael-2025-tex-bus-50.pdf Jurisdiction and  Rule 91a Attorneys’ Fees.  Plaintiff brought this action seeking dissolution of defendant Northglen; she pleaded the action concerns the entities’ governing document and governance, that it arises out of the Texas…

Texas Business Court Opinion – December 18, 2025

No. 25-BC04B-0001   Delfino Ornelas, III, etc., et al v. Erasmo Herrera (Fourth Division, Judge Sharp).  25-bc04b-0001-ornelas-v-herrera-2025-tex-bus-51.pdf Jurisdiction.  Before the court was the parties’ Joint Advisory on Early Legal Issues, which proposed two issues for early resolution, including whether settlements of the claims against the other defendants affected the court’s…

Texas Business Court Decision – December 17, 2025

No. 25-BC08A-0014   Michael D. Crain, etc. v. William “Will” Northern, et al. (Eighth Division, Judge Bullard, Author) Legal Malpractice and Fractured Malpractice-Based Claims.  This case arises out of a broken business relationship between Crain and William Northern; Crain brought suit individually and on behalf of his business entities,  for…

Fifteenth Court of Appeals Decision – December 4, 2025

No. 15-25-00027  Nicholas Kreines, et al v. ES3 Minerals, LLC (On Appeal from the Business Court, Division 3B) Injunctions/Bonds. Kreines and Ryan appealed a Business Court order modifying a temporary injunction that enjoined them from selling to certain mineral-rights buyers…

Texas Business Court Decision – December 5, 2025

OWL AssetCo,I, LLC v. EOG Resources, Inc. (Eleventh Div., Judge Bullard) Jurisdiction – House Bill 40. OWL and EOG contracted for OWL to provide transportation and disposal of produced water from EOG’s oil and gas operations. OWL filed this breach of contract action in the 152nd District Court of…

Texas Business Court Decision – December 5, 2025

No. 25-BC01A-0050    Sun Metals Group, LLC. v. Shuangcheng Yu, et al. (First Div., Judge Bouressa) Jurisdiction. This action was unilaterally removed to the Business Court by the defendants/counter-plaintiffs more than 10 months after it was filed in the 14th Judicial District, Dallas County, and plaintiff moved to remand…

Texas Business Court Decision – November 14, 2025

No. 25-BC08B-0001  CRS Mechanical, Inc., et al. v. Norfolk Cold Storage, LLC, etc., et al.  (Division 8, Judge Stagner)  25-bc08b-0001-crs-mechanical-v-norfolk-cold-storage-2025-tex-bus-46.pdf Declaratory Judgments Act. In this action, plaintiffs alleged they formed a partnership with defendants to renovate and operate a cold-storage facility in Nebraska; under the agreement defendants would purchase…

Texas Business Court Decision – November 8, 2025

No. 24-BC11A-002   City Choice Group, LLC v. TMC Grand Blvd Land Company, LLC, et al. (11th Div., Judge Adrogue’)  24-bc11a-0002-city-choice-group-v-tmc-grand-blvd-land-co-2025-tex-bus-45.pdf Contracts. This written opinion is issued under Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 360(a)(1), and reflects actions taken June 6 and November 8, 2025 on TMC’s motions. Background: In May…

Texas Business Court Opinion – November 5, 2025

No. 25-BC08B-0013  Lensable, Inc. v. RBH SPE One, LLC, et al. (Eighth Div., Judge Stagner) Contracts and Fraud. Defendant Robert Byrnes (Byrnes) sought to purchase Lensable, an internet eyewear company, using defendant Coscolleula to conduct the negotiations on behalf of Byrnes’s  companies, defendants RBH Spe One (RBH SPE) and…

Texas Business Court Decision – November 3, 2025

No. 25-BC03B-0002   Cadence McShane Construction Company LLC v. Ryan BB-Blockhouse Creek, LLC (Third Division, Judge Sweeten)25-bc03b-0002-cadence-mcshane-construction-co-v-ryan-bb-blockhouse-creek-2025-tex-bus-43.pdf Jurisdiction. Cadence, the general contractor on a 347-unit apartment contractor, sued  Ryan BB-Blockhouse (Ryan), the landowner, for breach of contract and seven other causes of action; Ryan counterclaimed for mismanagement of the project…

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