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This question was posed to me recently, and the short answer is "yes." This is called a premises liability case.  In Texas, a customer can prevail in a premises liability case against a business if the customer can prove several things: (1) that the condition (here the broken pavement or...

What are the potential lawsuit ramifications of the recent Austin balcony collapse?  I thought I'd take part of this week to write a few posts that outline some of the claims against potential defendants in the resulting lawsuits.  (If you haven't heard about the tragic collapse, some news stories are...

In what may be unprecedented, a bi-partisan group of Texas lawmakers filed an amicus brief with the Texas Supreme Court asking them to overturn their decision in Entergy v Summers. In that August 31, 2007 opinion, the court was faced with the question of whether a premises owner was a...