Samsung Electronics America can continue to use technology that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says allows it to unlawfully collect data on TV watchers, a judge ruled Friday.

The government can foreclose its tax liens on a Houston businessman’s mansion for his long-running tax debts totaling nearly $6.5 million, a federal court said.

A prolific patent attorney convinced a Texas federal judge he shouldn’t be on the hook to pay BlackBerry Corp. a share of nearly $600,000 in attorneys’ fees after the court previously ruled the suit was filed in bad faith.

A Texas judge’s refusal to marry same-sex couples for religious reasons while still marrying opposite-sex couples is permitted under the state’s judicial ethics code, the Texas Supreme Court said Friday, offering clarity in two high-profile disputes.

The DOJ’s past experience in rendition—the tool used to capture Nicolás Maduro and his wife—and established US legal precedent will leave little room for the couple to make successful arguments in US courts challenging their arrests.

Social media platform X Corp. on Friday sued the largest music publishers in the US and their trade associations, with claims that the group leveraged its power to monopolize the market for licenses to copyrighted musical compositions.