Reporting Highlights
Pushing Boundaries: Texas’ attorney general has sued big businesses in counties with weak links to the cases, despite lawmakers’ efforts to crack down on the practice, called forum shopping.
Once a Critic: Paxton urged the Supreme Court to limit forum shopping. But his office has since pursued at least 30 cases with tenuous connections to the counties where they were filed.
Novel Argument: Paxton’s office has argued that if a company has a website, it can be sued anywhere. Legal experts said that would obliterate state law on where suits can be filed.
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