Lloyd Gosselink News
CCN Release Agreements Outside of PUC’s Exclusive Jurisdiction
CCN holders may recover their breach-of-contract damages in district court notwithstanding the PUC’s Streamlined Expedited Release Process A Travis County district court ruled that a CCN holder may sue a landowner in district court… Read More
Five Lloyd Gosselink Principals Named in the 2025 Best Lawyers in America® List
Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. is happy to announce that five principals have been included in the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since this resource was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers®… Read More
The Lone Star current – July 2024 Edition
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Loper Bright and Corner Post – Effect on Texas Businesses and Governmental Entities
by James F. Parker In the final three days of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term before its summer break, two of the most impactful decisions on federal administrative law in the twenty-first century were announced. In… Read More
Title VII Discrimination: Getting Back to Basics
by Sarah T. Glaser Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from discrimination by their employer. For forty years, Fifth Circuit precedent required a plaintiff under Title VII to show he or she had… Read More
Legislative Committees Evaluate Texas Electric Market During Interim Hearings
by Roslyn Dubberstein In mid-June, the House State Affairs Committee and the Senate Business & Commerce Committee held hearings to evaluate the progress of electric market changes from the 2023 Texas Legislative Session and to begin discussing potential… Read More
Both U.S. Supreme Court and Texas Supreme Court Make Headlines on Significant Administrative Law and Water Quality Issues
by Nathan E. Vassar Earlier this summer, both the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) and the Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) generated headlines that will have implications to the regulated community both in Texas and on… Read More
Municipal Corner
The Attorney General clarifies ambiguities concerning General and Special Law Districts’ Board of Directors. Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. KP-0468 (2024). The Ector County Utility District (the “District”) requested an opinion from the Texas Attorney General (the “AG”) to… Read More
“Ask Sarah” Column
Dear Sarah, I recently read that the DEA is considering reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III substance. I know Texas’s Compassionate Use Act permits use of low-THC medical marijuana for certain medical conditions. What… Read More
In the Courts
Water Cases San Jacinto River Auth. v. City of Conroe, 688 S.W.3d 124 (Tex. 2024). A river authority (the “Authority”) entered into a groundwater reduction plan (“GRP”), which set goals for reducing the use of groundwater in… Read More