Ryan Autullo

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State is immune from suit under FMLA’s self-care provisionProfessor didn’t establish leave was to care for unborn childA professor to whom Texas A&M denied a tenured position can’t advance a retaliation claim under the Family and Medical Care Leave Act because her absence was due to her own health issues, not those of her unborn child, an appeals court ruled.

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A Texas appeals court likely won’t decide whether Harris County can give $20.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to low-income residents after county leaders recently voted to end the troubled program and its retooled successor. The Court of Appeals, Fifteenth District, on Monday abated the state’s challenge to the purpose of the payments citing the county’s move to end the program.

3 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Ryan Autullo

June 24, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC Pedestrians walk through Buffalo Bayou Park in downtown Houston, Texas, on March 8, 2020.

4 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Ryan Autullo

Texas state Sen. Joan Huffman (R) launched a campaign for state Attorney General on Monday, becoming the third major candidate in next year’s GOP primary to succeed Ken Paxton. Huffman, of Houston, has served in the Senate since 2009 and this month led the upper chamber in an 11th-hour deal with the House to give judges their first base pay increase in more than a decade.

4 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Ryan Autullo

A jet parts manufacturer that has resisted cooperating with a Texas probe conceded that a federal trial court wrongly decided to bar the state’s use of a century-old tool used to investigate businesses and organizations. Spirit Aerosystems joined the state in asking the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to end a challenge from Texas to a district court’s injunction, citing a recent game changing decision by the Texas Supreme Court.