In the wake of a Texas Supreme Court opinion, an inventor is seeking to revive his $100 million suit against his former lawyers. Vernon F. Minton, who lost a state court malpractice suit against lawyers who represented him a decade ago, has filed a negligence suit in federal court.

Federal securities regulators want a judge in Washington, D.C., to order liquidation proceedings to resolve potentially thousands of claims from investors who were caught up in the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme executed by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, will pay $158 million to settle litigation filed by the state of Texas and a whistleblower over allegedly false marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal for Medicaid patients.

In an unsigned opinion released today, the Supreme Court sent the hotly contested Texas redistricting dispute back to a three-judge federal court panel in the Western District of Texas for further review.

Oracle Corp. has reached a settlement with patent-holding company Round Rock Research in a Texas patent infringement suit. The company also negotiated a licensing agreement as part of the settlement.