In a variety of litigation contexts, including personal injury litigation, where there is a corporate defendant depositions of a corporate representative have become commonplace. Frequently, these depositions are used to underline the liability of the corporation that...
Month: June 2019
Texas Supreme Court Weekly Update June 24, 2019
Over the last two weeks, the Texas Supreme Court has issued five opinions and no grants. This blog discusses three of these recent opinions, which provide guidance on several important issues. In Thomas A. LaLonde Jr., P.E., et al. v. Paul Gosnell and Kim Gosnell, the...
Collisions & Intoxicants: Admissibility of Evidence Concerning Mental Health and Drug Use
In JBS Carriers, Inc v. Washington, et al., the Texas Supreme Court addressed and clarified two important evidentiary issues in the context of a pedestrian-truck collision: (1) the standard for admissibility of evidence concerning mental health and drug or alcohol use...