Arguments in briefs submitted in the ongoing Werner Enterprises nuclear verdict case in Texas have tended thus far to focus on legal questions such as whether various precedents should have done more to protect the truckload carrier from the giant judgment for a horrific crash that took place almost exactly 10 years ago.
But when the case went before the full Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday, oral arguments by Werner’s lead appellate attorney and his counterpart on the plaintiffs’ side went right...