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Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility v. Paxton

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / Texas
Year
2025
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility v. Paxton

About this case

Filing year
2025
Status
Reply filed by defendant to plaintiffs' response to motion to defer or deny plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → Texas
Docket number
1:25-cv-01803
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (W.D. Tex.)
Case category
Constitutional Claims (US) → First Amendment (US)Constitutional Claims (US) → Fourteenth Amendment (US)Securities and Financial Regulation (US)
Principal law
United States → First AmendmentUnited States → Fourteenth Amendment—Due ProcessUnited States → Texas Senate Bill 2337 (SB 2337)
At issue
Facial challenge to a Texas law that requires proxy advisors to disclose that their advice is “not provided solely in the financial interest of the shareholders of a company” if is wholly or partly based on "nonfinancial factors" such as ESG.
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Documents

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02/25/2026
Reply filed by defendant to plaintiffs' response to motion to defer or deny plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment.
Reply
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02/18/2026
Opposition filed by plaintiffs to defendant's motion to defer or deny plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment.
Opposition
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02/04/2026
Motion filed by defendant to defer or deny plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment.
Motion
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01/07/2026
Motion for summary judgment filed by plaintiffs.
Motion For Summary Judgment
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12/18/2025
Reply filed by defendant to plaintiffs' response to motion to consolidate.
Reply
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12/10/2025
Opposition filed by plaintiffs to defendant's motion to consolidate.
Opposition
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12/04/2025
Answer filed.
Answer
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12/03/2025
Motion to consolidate filed by defendant.
Motion
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11/10/2025
Complaint filed.
Complaint
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Summary

Facial challenge to a Texas law that requires proxy advisors to disclose that their advice is “not provided solely in the financial interest of the shareholders of a company” if is wholly or partly based on "nonfinancial factors" such as ESG.

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Group
Topics
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Fossil fuel
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance