In This Issue:
- Investments in LNG Project Companies - Key Issues relating to Shareholding Acquisitions
- Risk Service Structure Becomes a Little Less Risky for Russian Offshore Operations
- UK's Labour party proposes regulatory reform to secure gas and electricity price freezes
- Proposed Production Safety Rules Attempt to Bring Outer Continental Shelf Regulations into the Twenty-First Century
- Maryland and New Jersey Programs Supporting New Generation Invalidated
- Litigation Risks in Texas Are Reduced – The Merits of New Trial Orders by Texas Courts Are Now Subject to Appellate Review
- Excerpt from Litigation Risks in Texas Are Reduced – The Merits of New Trial Orders by Texas Courts Are Now Subject to Appellate Review:
For many decades, parties in Texas courts did not have any right to appellate review of a trial court's new trial order and trial courts were not required to specify their reasons for setting aside a jury's verdict. Recently, the Texas Supreme Court fixed this anomaly by expanding the mandamus jurisdiction of the appellate courts to allow review of the correctness of a new trial order.
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