Complex business lawsuits that originated before Texas’s new business courts are ineligible to be litigated there, a statewide appeals court ruled Friday.
Removal attempts in pre-existing cases are forbidden because they “did not commence a new civil action but continued the previous one in a different court,” the Court of Appeals, Fifteenth District said in the opinion.
The unanimous decision turns back a longshot bid by lawyers in at least 16 cases who sought to remove litigation pending in traditional courts and bring it to the state’s business courts system. They argued the law that created the courts never ...