Austin, TX
Texas Business Courts Off and Running With First Two Cases
Texas’s new business courts opened this week, and the first case filed involves a $15 million dispute in the construction of a 40-mile fiber optic cable in Maryland and Virginia.
The suit was filed Tuesday in the Austin division. Primoris T&D Services LLC brought the action against QLoop LLC, the project owner, for failing to provide accurate site conditions, access agreements, and construction materials.
Business courts in five cities will decide complex disputes that previously were tried in district courts. The cases generally must involve disputes of $5 million or more.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pushed the state legislature to …