With a factual background that includes an imprisoned former state district judge, a strange jury note that led to a hasty $3 million settlement in that judge’s court, and a corporate defendant that later proved that it settled as a result of fraud, Ford Motor v. Ezequiel Castillo is becoming the stuff of legend for modern Texas Supreme Court decisions.
Perhaps never before have so many enticing facts been packed into an 11-page per curiam opinion—the unsigned and normally unremarkable decisions the high court reserves for rulings it believes should have no precedential value.
