A while back, I posted on a Batson case in the criminal context. Today, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down a Batson decision in the civil context — a case of…
Category: Supreme Court of Texas
In this week’s orders, the Supreme Court of Texas granted review on Kappus. Kappus is an estate case where an ex-wife got her ex-brother in-law disqualified as…
The Supreme Court of Texas did not issue any opinions this week. There were no Tyler cases in their orders. So, as discussed in the Last Word post,…
Not long ago, the Tyler court threw out a case by a high school football coach who felt like he had been defamed in a…
I checked out the Interim Report of the Task Force to Ensure Judicial Readiness in Times of Emergency. Basically, it calls for counties to sign a Memorandum…
Gustav, thankfully, wasn’t as bad as feared. He was plenty bad enough, especially in Louisiana and Mississippi. Texas has been spared the brunt. Still, I’m…
On July 25th, the Supreme Court of Texas issued five identical decisions indicating that it would hold off on deciding the constitutionality of a provision…
Twenty two decisions today out of the Supreme Court of Texas. None in Tyler cases. There was, however, a case involving a Brookshire’s employee out of the Texarkana…
This week the Supreme Court of Texas took action on a couple of Tyler cases. The SCoTX had previously declined to hear hear the Willich case. Then…
City of Athens v. MacAvoy (Published): An Athens PD officer was sleeping on the job — with a married woman. The husband finds out, and files a…