A business dispute arose 10 years after a sale of shares. Now, a firm and one of its lawyers find themselves defending litigation brought by an unhappy ex-client.

The ruling will not have an immediate effect on a Texas law that bans same-sex marriage inside the state and prevents couples from being divorced in the Lone Star State even if they were married elsewhere, according to four Texas attorneys.

The U.S. Supreme Court today declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage of Act of 1996, which blocked federal benefits to same-sex couples.

In a petition filed on June 13, a former client of Boyar Miller of Houston alleges the firm and two of its former attorneys engaged in negligence, gross negligence, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and conspiracy in how they handled a lawsuit in Bexar County.

In a 5-4 decision on June 17 in a Houston murder case, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Genovevo Salinas’ claim that Harris County prosecutors violated his Fifth Amendment right when using his silence during a voluntary interrogation as evidence against him at trial. Neal Davis (pictured) of Houston represents Salinas.