Appellate Law News and Insights

Currently, the Texas Products Liability Act defines a "seller" as "a person who is engaged in the business of distributing or otherwise placing, for any commercial purpose, in the stream of commerce for use or consumption a product or any component part thereof."1 The Texas Supreme Court is set to determine...

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New Orleans, La. (March 25, 2021) - The Louisiana Supreme Court, reversing multiple lower circuit court decisions, has now invalidated the "regular use" exclusion in an Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (UM) policy based on Louisiana public policy. In Higgins v. La. Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co., No. 2020-01094 (La. 3/24/21), the plaintiff, Charles Higgins, was...

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Highlights The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782, which governs applications for discovery from a United States court for use in a foreign proceeding, permits discovery for use in a private foreign arbitration. The main legal issue is whether a...

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