The issue in this case challenging Laredo's plastic-bag-ban ordinance is whether state solid-waste law preempts the city's ban with "unmistakable clarity."

The issues in this insurance-defense dispute are (1) whether an exception to the eight-corners rule should be created when undisputed evidence shows the policyholder committed fraud and colluded to get coverage and (2) whether the insurer should have pressed, by a declaratory action, that it had no duty to defend before terminating representation.

In this gas-explosion case that injured a homeowner's father as he checked on an appliance the issues are (1) whether CenterPoint had a duty to inspect a residence's interior before gas service was begun; (2) whether liability limitations under CenterPoint's tariff were implicated if the plaintiffs were not customers, consumers or applicants under the tariff; (3) whether a tariff's liability limitations can apply to a non-customer as a legal matter; and (4) whether legally sufficient evidence supported the verdict under a negligence or negligent-undertaking theory.

The primary issue in this case is whether substantial compliance is sufficient to avoid termination of parental rights under Section 161.001(b)(1)(O) of the Family Code.

The issues in this case are (1) whether, and in what circumstances, a guardian may petition for divorce on behalf of a ward; and (2) the effect of one spouse's death on the appeal from a divorce decree.