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Every issue of the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative’s weekly briefing on the Texas Business Court, newest first. Each edition links to the underlying court orders on the public record.
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Archive · What this is
The archive is the append-only record of every edition of The Hilltop Docket — published weekly since May 20, 2026.
Issues are listed newest first. Titles and dates are reproduced from each published edition. Opinion citations follow the Texas Business Court’s sequential per-year scheme (e.g., 2026 Tex. Bus. 40). The full opinion corpus and live monitor are at smucgi.org/research/texas-business-court/opinions/.
All issues · Newest first
Select any issue to read the full edition, including opinion treatments, new-petition summaries, and the hearing calendar for that week.
The Texas Business Court signed four opinions in eight days — 2026 Tex. Bus. 55–58, each treated in full from the signed PDF: a removed Rule 202 pre-suit deposition petition, kept (In re Radical Hoops); a claim-preclusion architecture across parallel suits (CAM Industrial Solutions); a conversion ruling on uncertificated LLC interests (Carrington); and a comity line drawn at the state border (Clean Hydrogen Works). Then the Delaware file: the Court of Chancery’s first word on Revlon and the public benefit corporation (Drakes Landing), and the Texas statutory comparison it invites. With the week’s new petitions and the hearing calendar.
No new opinions this week — the corpus stands at 117 through Fischer v. Fischer, 2026 Tex. Bus. 54 (July 29), and Governor Abbott’s July 29 reappointment of all ten sitting judges takes effect September 1. The issue closes out year two with the numbers, then opens the Delaware file: the amended stockholder complaint challenging Dropbox’s completed Delaware-to-Nevada conversion (Plumbers & Fitters Local 295 Pension Fund v. Dropbox, Inc., C.A. No. 2025-0354-KSJM (Del. Ch.)), read against Maffei v. Palkon, Rutledge, SB 21, and the questions any Texas-bound board must answer. Plus the August fee-application calendar set by the July rulings.
The full treatments promised in Issue No. 11 — 2026 Tex. Bus. 43 through 50, every one coded from the signed PDF with paragraph citations — plus first treatments of four new opinions signed July 28–29 (2026 Tex. Bus. 51–54): the corpus’s first receiver-immunity holding (Fischer v. Fischer), a substantial-compliance reading of the certified-mail foreclosure-notice statute (Revere Tactical), the Texas Rangers ownership-units constructive-trust ruling (Simpson v. Simpson), and the second statement in seven days of the statute-of-frauds land-description rule (Riverside Homebuilders). With a For the Record section on register-metadata defects and the completed corpus reconciliation.
A correction of Issue No. 10’s central factual claim: eight opinions — 2026 Tex. Bus. 43 through 50, signed July 14–24 — were on the court’s official index, including the court’s first two church-autonomy decisions, its first substantive work-product ruling, and a personal-jurisdiction dismissal. Index-description previews of all eight, with full treatments promised for Issue No. 12. Plus In re Frank Jackson: the Fifteenth Court’s conditional grant of the first merits mandamus in the Business Court’s history, on attorney immunity.
No new opinion since Kampmann v. Smith (2026 Tex. Bus. 42), so this edition delivers the full treatments owed from Issue No. 9: Thompson v. Anchor Capital GP (2026 Tex. Bus. 41), the court’s fullest Reves application yet — a four-year secured note is a loan, not a Texas Securities Act security — and Kampmann, denying jurisdiction, dominant-jurisdiction abatement, and transfer challenges in the Principle Auto Group dissolution fight. Plus a correction for the record and a trial calendar thickening through September.
Two new opinions post to the official index — Thompson v. Anchor Capital GP (2026 Tex. Bus. 41), holding a promissory note a loan rather than a security under the Reves factors, and Kampmann v. Smith (2026 Tex. Bus. 42) on subject-matter jurisdiction, dominant-jurisdiction abatement, and county transfer. Plus: ExxonMobil’s New Jersey→Texas redomiciliation effective July 1 through a holding-company merger, pinned to the July 1 EDGAR filings; the hearings calendar, including an Eighth Division jury trial.
No new opinion posted to the court’s official index since Local Marketing v. Bennett (2026 Tex. Bus. 40); the per-year corpus remains contiguous through that citation, with nothing added this period. A short continuity edition: the docket posture from the re:SearchTX stream, an ExxonMobil redomestication status check, and the threads carried forward — the SWAPA repleading and anti-SLAPP fee practice.
One new opinion, Local Marketing v. Bennett (2026 Tex. Bus. 40) — the digest’s first Texas Citizens Participation Act treatment — granting a TCPA motion to dismiss defamation and tortious-interference counterclaims for want of damages evidence and awarding mandatory attorney’s fees.
Three new opinions (2026 Tex. Bus. 37–39), each denying the moving party: Boeing’s motion for summary judgment in the 737 MAX / SWAPA suit, cross-motions on an employment-contract relocation term, and a four-ground remand denial reaffirming whole-action jurisdiction in South Shore ER v. Bashiri.
Four opinions confirmed on the official index (2026 Tex. Bus. 33–36), including a jurisdictional remand in Brown v. Exxon Mobil and a drag-along Affiliate ruling in Energy Founders Fund v. Daskevich.
The Texas Business Court issues three new opinions (2026 Tex. Bus. 33, 34, 35), including Brown v. Exxon Mobil; ExxonMobil shareholders approve the New Jersey-to-Texas redomestication.
A faculty exchange between SMU scholars Christina M. Sautter and Shane Goodwin on ExxonMobil and the “Leopard Paradigm,” leading into the May 27, 2026 ExxonMobil shareholder vote on Texas redomiciliation.
A quiet opinions week at the Texas Business Court; four new dockets filed Friday; a faculty exchange and the ExxonMobil shareholder vote on Wednesday.
The first edition of The Hilltop Docket: intelligence on the Texas Business Court — opinions, dockets, hearings, and doctrine — from the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative, opening with Plains Pipeline v. Arrowhead Gulf Coast Holdings (2026 Tex. Bus. 29).
Looking for the underlying opinions rather than the weekly editions? The complete corpus is searchable at the opinions index, with a machine-readable feed at /research/texas-business-court/opinions/feed/opinions.xml. Editorial standards and the masthead are documented on the About page.
How we work
Every edition in this archive was published under the same four disciplines: primary sources, human review, declared conflicts, and no paid placement on coverage.
01 / Primary sources
Opinions are pulled from txcourts.gov/businesscourt; dockets from re:SearchTX; statutes from capitol.texas.gov. Practitioner blogs may appear in scholarship cites but are never load-bearing.
02 / Bluebook 21st
Per-opinion entries follow Bluebook 21st short-form conventions; sequential per-year citations are preserved (e.g., 2026 Tex. Bus. 29 follows 28).
03 / Human review
AI assists with first-pass extraction. Every published characterization is read against the underlying opinion PDF; errors are corrected at the source with a dated note.
04 / Independence & conflicts
SMU CGI is funded institutionally. The Hilltop Docket accepts no paid placement and declares conflicts in the closing section of each issue. Editorial policy.
