Jurors on the Move, Contracts on Trial: October’s Texas Business Court Decisions
In the latest edition of Kirkland’s article series for The Texas Lawbook, Zack Ewing and Austin Lesch review recent activity and key developments in the Texas Business Court from the past month.
“Juror pay of up to $250 a day, a courtroom swap mid-deliberations and another stack of opinions — October had it all. In Dallas, the Texas Business Court presided over a multiweek jury trial and made headlines for the generous supplemental pay its jurors receive. But the trial also exposed a growing pain for the court: Without courtrooms of its own, the jury had to decamp to a district judge’s courtroom midway through deliberations. Meanwhile, the Court’s opinions took on shareholder standing, the economic-loss rule and — of course — contract interpretation.”
