Randy Johnston, Robert Tobey and Chad Baruch Receive Honor DALLAS – All three name partners at Dallas law firm Johnston Tobey Baruch – Randy Johnston, Robert Tobey and Chad Baruch – have been named to the list of the Best Lawyers in Dallas 2021 by D Magazine. Mr. Johnston and Mr. Tobey are honored in […]

Few lawyers remember much about the political-question doctrine beyond what they learned during their first year of law school. On the rare occasions that the doctrine is litigated, it usually occurs in a federal court rather than the state-court system. But in a rare exception to the mine run of cases involving the political-question doctrine, […]

JTB appellate partner, Chad Baruch, won a reversal of a defendant’s summary judgment in the Fifth Circuit last week. The case involved the widow of the Dallas physician. In a federal lawsuit, the widow alleges that her deceased husband’s practice-management company failed to pay the invoice on a life-insurance policy, resulting in its lapse. She […]

Section 18.001 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code allows a claimant to submit to the jury the issue of the reasonableness of medical expenses without the need for an expert by filing a statutorily compliant affidavit. The defendant may avoid this abbreviated procedure by filing a statutorily compliant counter-affidavit. Three questions arose under […]