Texas’s new business courts opened this week, and the first case filed involves a $15 million dispute in the construction of a 40-mile fiber optic cable in Maryland and Virginia.
The suit was filed Tuesday in the Austin division. Primoris T&D Services LLC brought the action against QLoop LLC, the project owner, for failing to provide accurate site conditions, access agreements, and construction materials.
Business courts in five cities will decide complex disputes that previously were tried in district courts. The cases generally must involve disputes of $5 million or more.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pushed the state legislature to create business courts in his ongoing effort to make Texas corporate friendly. Business owners expected to use the courts system include Elon Musk, who moved incorporation of Tesla from Delaware to Texas.
A second case was filed Tuesday in the Houston business court division.
There are also divisions in Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio.
Bell Nunnally & Martin represents the plaintiff.
The case is Primoris T&D Services, LLC. v. QLoop, LLC, No. 24-BC03B-0001, complaint 9/3/24.
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