The question of whether George Fleming and his law firm can charge some of its clients millions of dollars for the cost of screening out non-clients in a mass tort case is going to require further litigation, per a recent opinion from Houston’s 14th Court of Appeals.

The complex background to the 14th Court’s August 20 consolidated decision in George Fleming and Fleming & Associates v. Tammylern Curry et al. is as follows, according to the opinion.