Plaintiff Successfully Pleads Out of Business Court Jurisdiction by Amending Away Governance Claims

In Reed v. Rook TX, Division 3 granted plaintiff's renewed motion to remand after he strategically amended his Fourth Amended Petition to eliminate all governance, governing-document, and internal-affairs allegations that had initially supported the Court's jurisdiction under Section 25A.004(b)(2). The Court held it lacked supplemental jurisdiction without plaintiff's consent, qualified-transaction jurisdiction because consideration fell below the statutory minimum, and trade-regulation jurisdiction because negligence per se constitutes a tort claim rather than a trade-regulation claim.