Ex-Appellate Court Judges Launch Boutique Focused on Plaintiffs Appeals
Former Texas appellate Judges Peter Kelly of Houston and Beth Watkins of San Antonio have launched a civil appeals and trial ...
Texas GOP lawmakers seek to give AG Ken Paxton power to prosecute abortion, election fraud
SB 846, filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes would give unprecedented prosecutorial powers to the attorney general on issues of voter ...
Texas Supreme Court denies Houston drainage case appeal, requires millions more for streets, drainage
The city filed an appeal in the case back in September and didn't forsee financial consequences until the upcoming budget ...
Texas Judges May Get a Pay Raise
The chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court urged the state legislature to raise salaries for judges across the state.
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Critics argue a Texas court ruling jeopardizes election integrity
Under the ruling, in a Houston-area case that is set to be reheard, prosecutors must seek permission from the Texas Ethics ...
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Houston must allocate more money for drainage projects after Texas Supreme Court rejects appeal
The City of Houston, already financially strapped, must allocate more money to street and drainage projects after the Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider its appeal in a ...
Challenge to Texas immigration law SB 4 will head to trial in July, federal judge orders
Trump's Justice Dept. may drop the U.S. challenge to SB 4, but other plaintiffs have vowed to push forward against Texas' ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
That ruling was overturned by the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals. Texas also has looked to local compounding pharmacies — where drugs are created on-site using necessary ingredients — to make ...
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Harvey Weinstein due in court as judge weighs scope of his #MeToo retrial and when it will start
NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein is due back in court Wednesday as a judge is set to decide when the disgraced movie mogul's ...
Is Texas due for a judicial pay raise? Here's what chief justice says and what's proposed
Sen. Joan Huffman has filed a bill that proposes to raise the state's base salary for judges from $140,000 to $161,000 — a ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
leaving that process to state courts and appeals. Several states already have codified the exemption from death sentences for intellectually disabled inmates and created standards for determining who ...
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Save Austin Now to get rehearing on enforcement of Prop B
Save Austin Now, the group that pushed for and won an election to make the city enforce a ban on camping among homeless residents, has won a victory at the 3rd Court of Appeals. Save Austin Now filed ...