The blog
Cynical notes on statutes, procedure, and the stories lawyers tell themselves.
These posts are samples of what comes out of Texas Law Bot, which sits on thousands of pages of Texas law. A lawyer who already knows the work can use that base, plus his own knowledge, and write posts like these for his own firm.
Texas allocates gathering, compression, and processing by the royalty clause, not by a marketable-product speech borrowed from other states. An at-the-well valuation usually lets the operator netback those costs, and a no-deduct rider that never rewrites the valuation point often does no work.
Texas wage fights still turn on whether the FLSA treats that salaried "manager" as exempt, how overtime was computed on piece rate or commissions, and whether final pay hit the Payday Law deadline. Pick the TWC path and the 180-day clock does not blink.
Texas eviction is a JP-court case about who gets the keys right now, not a full breach-of-lease trial. The notice, the missing cure right, and a short list of defenses usually decide it.
Texas SAPCR law starts with a joint-managing-conservator presumption and a standard possession order. Family violence can take both off the table, and a JMC decree still has to say whether the child's primary residence lives inside a geographic box.
A custodian affidavit can carry business records past hearsay at summary judgment, but only if the foundation is complete, third-party paper is actually adopted, and you beat the right deadline. The 7-day response date is not the date that saves a 902(10) affidavit.
Texas can prove DWI with a 0.08 alcohol number or with loss of normal faculties, including drugs that have no legal cutoff. Penalties climb with priors, a child in the car, and high BAC, and a lot of the real fight is whether the stop and the blood draw were legal.
