V03 · Texas Business Court · live data

Live monitor

Texas Business Court — live monitor.

Cases, filings, and hearings are ingested on a disclosed polling cadence (currently every 30 minutes) from re:SearchTX. Published opinions are retrieved on a disclosed cadence from the Texas Business Court’s published-opinions register at txcourts.gov/businesscourt/opinions/. Records are append-only and dynamically rendered. Case captions and party descriptions are drawn from court-staff entries in re:SearchTX. Filing coverage is partial — source-status is disclosed per record. Each record is overlaid with SMU CGI’s canonical doctrinal-tag vocabulary (derivative actions, fiduciary duties, books-and-records, Caremark/Marchand oversight, controller transactions, forum and jury-waiver, exculpation, indemnification, fee-shifting, and related doctrines) to enable faceted search by doctrine — not just by party or case caption.

Opinions
103
Cases
478
Filings
1550
Hearings
744

Headline finding · The TBC live monitor

Four ingestion channels — opinions, cases, filings, and hearings — with court-direct PDFs verified as of last link check and primary-source links surfaced where available. Cases, filings, and hearings refresh on a disclosed polling cadence (currently every 30 minutes) from re:SearchTX (login required for source access); published opinions refresh on a disclosed cadence from txcourts.gov/businesscourt/opinions/. Coverage is partial: case and party descriptions are drawn from court-staff entries in re:SearchTX and may not capture the full doctrinal posture of any underlying filing.

Records are append-only and dynamically rendered. The opinions corpus mirrors the dataset behind the Texas Business Court Codex. Live counts populate the channel tiles below.

  • 103Opinions in corpus
  • 4Channels monitored
  • 30 minRefresh cadence
  • 5 / 11Divisions with opinions
  • 100%Opinion PDFs court-direct

The live monitor

Every TBC signal in one feed, separated by channel.

Each tab pulls from its own data source. Opinions come from the court website fetcher; cases, filings, and hearings from the bot inbox poll on a disclosed cadence (currently every 30 minutes). Records carry primary-source links where available; source-status is disclosed per record.

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15th Court of Appeals interaction

Doctrinal anchor

Kelley v. Homminga (Tex. 2025) limited the 15th Court of Appeals to its statutory categories plus equalization transfers.

On March 14, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court issued a single unanimous per curiam opinion in companion proceedings — Kelley v. Homminga (Misc. Docket No. 25-9013) and Devon Energy Production Co., L.P. v. Oliver (Misc. Docket No. 25-9014) — holding that the Fifteenth Court of Appeals' jurisdiction is limited to (i) appeals and writs within its exclusive intermediate appellate jurisdiction and (ii) cases transferred into the Fifteenth Court under the Texas Supreme Court's docket-equalization authority (Tex. Gov’t Code § 73.001(a) (jurisdiction-equalization-transfer authority); § 73.001(b) (bar on transferring properly-filed cases back out); see also Tex. Gov’t Code § 22.220(d) (Fifteenth Court of Appeals’ exclusive intermediate appellate jurisdiction, eff. Sept. 1, 2024)). The doctrinal effect is that the Fifteenth Court of Appeals now exercises its statutorily-defined jurisdiction over enumerated case categories plus equalization-transfer dockets, rather than serving as a general intermediate appellate forum for Texas civil cases. SMU CGI’s downstream research plan includes a paired 15th-COA opinions feed once the Live Monitor architecture stabilizes.

Sources: Kelley v. Homminga (25-9013 PDF) · Devon Energy Production Co., L.P. v. Oliver (25-9014 PDF) (Tex. Mar. 14, 2025) (per curiam).

Operational stack peripherals

How the four feeds get here.

Behind each tab is an independent data channel. Opinions come from a scheduled twice-daily fetch from the court website; cases, filings, and hearings from an IMAP-poll-and-parse pipeline against a dedicated bot Gmail inbox subscribed to re:SearchTX Search Alerts (login-gated; cadence currently 30 minutes). Filing coverage is partial; the re:SearchTX Search Alert channel does not capture every TBC filing.

Last ingest checking… —
cases — filings — hearings — filtered —

Channel 1 · opinions (built)

TBC opinions fetcher

phase6a_tbc_opinions_monitor.py on a Windows Task Scheduler cron (06:30 + 18:30 daily). Outputs data/opinions.json consumed by the Opinions tab above.

Channel 2 · filings (live)

re:SearchTX Premium alerts

Live re:SearchTX export — saved-search alerts covering all 11 TBC divisions + 15th COA flow into an instant-delivery operational inbox, refreshed every thirty minutes by the tbc-auto-ingest workflow, then written to data/docket_alerts.json.

Channel 3 · federal docket activity

PACER NEF (optional)

When subscribed, the same bot inbox receives federal Notice-of-Electronic-Filing emails for cases of interest (e.g., federal removals, securities suits against TBC-cohort firms). Parsed and surfaced under the Filings tab.

Channel 4 · institutional announcements

BCPress@txcourts.gov

The court's press-release distribution list. Free subscription. Catches judicial appointments, rule changes, and new-case-filed announcements via re:SearchTX. Surfaces under the Cases tab.

Why a single live monitor

Earlier draft pages treated opinions, filings, and hearings as separate dashboards. Consolidating them under one tabbed view lets the user follow a case from opening filing → motion practice → hearing → opinion without leaving the page. Each channel keeps its own provenance — you can always see which feed produced any given record.

Source health & coverage disclosure

Opinions channel: direct fetch from txcourts.gov/businesscourt/opinions/ on a disclosed twice-daily cadence; corpus is the set of published opinions only (court can issue unpublished rulings that never enter this channel). Cases / Filings / Hearings channels: sourced from re:SearchTX Search Alerts (login-gated platform). Coverage is partial — Search Alerts deliver records that match the configured filter set; not every TBC filing is captured. Case captions and party descriptors are drawn from court-staff entries in re:SearchTX and may not fully describe the underlying doctrinal posture. Per-record source-status chips disclose channel of origin; per-record “Set on [date]” lines disclose when the entry was first observed. See the operational stack below and BUILD_MANUAL §65 for the full pipeline disclosure.

How we work

Methodology, sources, and editorial discipline.

We work only from primary sources. Every claim, citation, and number is traced to its statutory text, opinion PDF, or filing of record before it appears on this page.

02 / Bluebook 21st

Citation discipline on every footnote.

Per-opinion entries follow Bluebook 21st short-form conventions. The Texas Business Court issues sequential per-year citations (e.g., 2026 Tex. Bus. 29); we preserve that format across the corpus.

03 / Human review

Every opinion summary read by a human editor.

AI assists with first-pass extraction. Every published characterization is read against the underlying opinion PDF before publication. Mischaracterizations are corrected at the source with a dated note.

04 / Editorial independence

No party may purchase or veto coverage.

SMU CGI is funded institutionally; The Hilltop Docket and the Texas Business Court Codex do not accept paid placement. Editorial policy.