Beef, Buses, and Buckeyes Drive New Texas Business Court Dockets

Lawyers have filed more than 50 cases in Texas’ business courts since they opened in September, availing themselves of a system designed to attract corporations by streamlining complex, high-dollar litigation.

Kinks are still being ironed out. Houston’s division has received more cases than Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth combined.

Also, it remains a question of whether the courts can accept cases filed in other courts before the business courts opened. Seven of the 10 judges have said they can’t, triggering appeals that haven’t been decided.

Of the pending cases in business courts, here are three to keep an ...