Lloyd Gosselink News
Employment Law Update: Status Update on New FLSA Exemption Salary Threshold
On June 28, 2024, the State of Texas was granted a narrow injunction to block the enforcement of the Department of Labor’s final rule raising the salary threshold for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards… Read More
SCOTUS Decisions Bring Major Changes to Administrative Law
Two significant U.S. Supreme Court decisions affecting administrative law were issued within three days of each other. First, the Loper decision, issued June 28, overturned the Chevron rule by which courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. The Court… Read More
Lloyd Gosselink is pleased to announce the five distinguished law students selected to take part in our Summer 2024 Law Clerk Program!
This summer, we are excited to welcome law clerks Emily Balderson, Will Notelovitz, Joe O’Neil, Lisa Silveira, and Dingwu (Darren) Yang. Lloyd Gosselink takes pride in its long-standing and robust Law Clerk Program, and we look forward to continuing our… Read More
The Lone Star Current – April 2024 Edition
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The U.S. Supreme Court Speaks: Blocking Users from Commenting on Public Official’s Social Media Account Violates The First Amendment… Maybe
by José de la Fuente Does a public official’s act of blocking certain individuals/members of the public from commenting on an official’s social media account violate the First Amendment rights of that member of the public? The United States Supreme… Read More
Texas Supreme Court Set to Determine Whether Public Utility Commission of Texas Violated Texas Law
by Rick Arnett On January 30, 2024, the Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOTX”) heard oral argument from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (the “Commission”), Calpine Corp. (“Calpine”), and Luminant Energy Co. (“Luminant”) in Luminant Energy Co. LLC v. Pub. Read More
DOL Issues Final Independent Contractor Rule
by Michelle White With an effective date of March 11, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its long-awaited final rule addressing independent contractor classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). See Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the… Read More
New Courts Coming This Fall
by Gabrielle Smith The 88th Legislative Session saw the creation of two new court systems in the state of Texas—business courts (See HB 19) and a Fifteenth Court of Appeals (See SB 1045). Both of these new courts are intended… Read More
Texas Broadband Update: The Broadband, Equity Access, and Deployment Program
by Jack Klug The Broadband, Equity Access, and Development (“BEAD”) Program was created as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and is a $42.5 billion federal grant program which aims to expand high-speed Internet access through the… Read More
Municipal Corner
A Water Control and Improvement District may not use surplus “interest and sinking funds” to reduce the cost of future bonds. Tex. Att’y. Gen. Op. KP-0459 (2024). The Victoria County District Attorney requested an opinion from the Texas Attorney General… Read More
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