In this case alleging fraud underlying a contract the issues are (1) whether reliance is precluded because the alleged misrepresentations conflict with the contract; (2) whether the contract's merger clause disclaiming reliance precludes fraud; (3) whether evidence supports that each defendant had a disclosure duty or gave affirmative misrepresentations; (4) whether separate jury instructions should have been presented on each fraud theory; (5) whether the appeals court improperly sustained a spoliation instruction; and (6) whether the appeals court erred by remitting punitive damages, from $100 million to $600,000.

In this challenge to the appeals court's take-nothing reversal from a contract-breach and fraud verdict, the issues are (1) whether the court erred by considering a deleted provision from negotiations to interpret the contract and (2) whether the court erred by rejecting a fraud claim on reliance grounds based on an oral promise to act when the written contract omitted that.

The issue in this parental-rights termination appeal is whether the trial court erred by denying the mother's jury-trial request in de novo hearing.

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In this contest over a lease by the navigation district to the oyster-production company, to use submerged land to grow and harvest oysters, the issues are (1) whether statute overcomes the district's governmental immunity claim; (2) whether the district commissioners have authority to lease the land in this case; (3) whether the state properly alleged an ultra-vires claim against the commissioners for restitution; and (4) whether Sustainable Texas Oyster Resources has standing in this appeal.

The issue is whether a fraudulent-misdiagnosis claim falls under the health-care liability statute and requires a threshold expert-report requirement.

The issues are (1) whether M.D. Anderson used tangible personal property during surgery, defeating Anderson's immunity defense, and, if so, (2) whether that use proximately caused the surgery patient's death.

In this case challenging sanctions against a physician, for not electronically signing and submitting a death certificate to a state database, the principal issues are (1) whether the medical board exaggerated Aleman's failure to follow database procedures as unprofessional or dishonorable conduct and (2) whether the medical board acted arbitrarily and capriciously by sanctioning the doctor for conduct the administrative-law judge determined was impossible because Aleman was not yet registered to access the state database.

The principal issues in this challenge under the Texas Citizens Participation Act are (1) whether the Halls' partner compounding pharmacy showed clearly and specifically that the newspaper's report the company was under federal investigation was substantially false and (2) whether a reasonable reader would infer the pharmacy's guilt from the newspaper's reporting that included allegations in lawsuits, a federal investigation and the context of the broader controversy over compounding industry practices.

The issue is whether a default is imputed to a probate applicant presenting a will that had been filed before but outside the requisite time restriction....

The issue in this dispute over back pay the issue is whether the Texas Local Government Code's immunity-waiver provision is triggered when the back-pay claim is based on an provision for on-call pay in an employment manual that disclaims any provision in it can be considered contractual.

Principal issues are (1) whether a rehearing motion was required, under administrative procedures, before judicial review of an administrative-law judge's order placing Mosley on a registry of residential-care workers determined to have abused patients and, if so, (2) whether the notice to her that the order was subject to judicial review was sufficiently misleading that it violated due process.

In this dispute involving agreements between West, the chief executive for several of Quintanilla's businesses, the issues are (1) whether the Court has jurisdiction over this appeal under expanded authority giving the Court broad power to determine questions important to the state's jurisprudence, enacted in 2017 after the dispute arose, and (2) whether the parol-evidence rule bars West's evidence of an alleged separate agreement to discharge West's debts to Quintanilla.

The issue, based on denial of a dismissal motion under the Texas Tort Claims Act, is whether an off-duty police officer using deadly force outside his jurisdiction during an arrest is acting outside the scope of his employment.

A principal issue from this defamation and contract-interference suit is whether an interlocutory appeal from a summary-judgment denial allows review of the entire summary-judgment order - in this case the interference claim - and not just that arising from First Amendment issues.