The Hilltop Docket

On the bench

Three new opinions on the official index: 2026 Tex. Bus. 33, 34, and 35.

Between Issue No. 2’s cutoff and today, the court’s official opinions index published three new opinions, carrying the 2026 sequence from 2026 Tex. Bus. 32 through 35. Two were detected on the official index in the days before this issue’s cutoff (May 28–29); the third, Brown v. Exxon Mobil, was detected the morning of June 1. We treat each below, citing the opinion PDF as posted by the court. The companion live monitor reflects the same sequence.

Full bench treatments — caption, citation, ruling line, and doctrinal note read against each opinion PDF — will follow in subsequent issues per our human-review standard. For monitoring between editions, the live monitor refreshes every thirty minutes at smucgi.pages.dev/research/texas-business-court/opinions/.

Redomestication Brief

ExxonMobil’s shareholders approve the move to Texas.

On Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at ExxonMobil’s annual meeting, shareholders approved the proposal to change the company’s state of incorporation from New Jersey to Texas. According to the company’s Form 8-K reporting the results under Item 5.07, the redomestication proposal received 2,216,403,048 votes for and 896,852,562 against — roughly 71.2% of the votes cast — with 30,111,060 abstentions and 493,518,532 broker non-votes. At least 3,636,885,465 shares were represented in person or by proxy, approximately 87.8% of the shares entitled to vote.

71.2% reflects votes for ÷ (for + against); including abstentions in the denominator the figure is approximately 70.5% (Form 8-K, Item 5.07, acc. 0000034088-26-000078).

The result closes the question this publication has followed since Issue No. 1. ExxonMobil — operationally headquartered in Irving, Texas from 1989 until 2023 and in Spring, Texas thereafter, but incorporated in New Jersey since the nineteenth century — will now be governed by the Texas Business Organizations Code, and its internal-affairs disputes will, by default, fall within the subject-matter reach of the Texas Business Court. The vote followed an ISS “AGAINST” recommendation and the company’s point-by-point response, both covered in Issue No. 1’s Cross-Jurisdiction and revisited in the Issue No. 3 Faculty Exchange. We will monitor for the effective date of the conversion and any follow-on charter or governance filings.

Dockets & calendar

Filings and hearings — week of June 1–5.

No new re:SearchTX filing alerts cleared our ingestion pipeline during this editorial week, and no hearing times were published to the export we monitor. For real-time docket activity and the hearings calendar, the live monitor is the authoritative source between editions and refreshes every thirty minutes — see the Cases tab and the Hearings tab.

Docket numbers and hearing settings are drawn from re:SearchTX’s filing-activity export and may not capture matters set on internal calendars that have not yet generated public alerts. Where the court’s export omits hearing times, those settings appear on the live monitor as they are published.

Looking ahead

What we are tracking.

Full bench treatments. Doctrinal notes on the three opinions published this week — 2026 Tex. Bus. 33, 34, and 35, including Brown v. Exxon Mobil — will follow after independent review of each opinion PDF, per our human-review standard.

ExxonMobil. The effective date of the New Jersey→Texas conversion and any follow-on charter or governance filings, surfaced to the monitor as they land on EDGAR.

Issue No. 5 (anticipated, week of June 8). Full-format bench coverage of the new opinions, plus the week’s new petitions and the hearings calendar.