With today’s order list, the Court: issued merits opinions in seven cases (discussed below), including a toxic torts-based takings claim against a city, an important case about seeking injunctive relief against state officials, a case between two governmental hospital districts, a premises-liability case involving a floodgate, how res judicata might affect a divorce decree, and two cases about what formalities are needed to preserve an appellate point (in a family-law case and… [read post]