Texas Supreme Court

The higher court's ruling comes as part of the church’s lawsuit against SMU, which has challenged the authority UMC has over the university.

Individuals and businesses who sued Texas utility companies for cutting power during the deadly 2021 winter storm didn't adequately prove the companies' negligence, the court ruled Friday, but one of their claims can still move forward.

The high court ruled a federal labor relations law does not stop the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association from accusing Boeing of misrepresenting the safety of the 737 MAX model. After the model was involved in two deadly plane crashes, pilots with the Dallas-based airline said Boeing misled them into agreeing to fly the planes.

Justices say a court may terminate a Houston-area father's parental rights because his "extensive" criminal history and time in prison has endangered his son's life, even if it didn't directly harm the boy.

A former SMU law professor alleges that defamation and discrimination played a part in her denied application for tenure at the university's law school.

The family of a late DPD officer and an injured officer in 2019 sued an off-duty officer, the security company that employed him and Home Depot. The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday to dismiss the suit.

A trial court originally issued the protective order after Christine Stary was arrested and charged with acts of family violence in 2020.

The high court ruled despite the city's unintentional oversight in greenlighting plans for a townhome that was 10 feet too tall, ordering the McKinney developer to tear it down to comply with height requirements would be unjust.

The high court's Friday ruling sets an even higher standard in proving whether governments can be sued over 911 responses.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider whether a Houston man will be tried as an adult for a capital murder allegedly committed when he was a teen.

Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock asked for higher judicial pay and protections for parents in child custody cases in his first State of the Judiciary address since Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the high court's top role.

Paxton’s win was unsurprising after the state’s top court sided with his deputy in a similar lawsuit last month.