I had heard about Justice Jim Moseley (of the Dallas Court and on Twitter) and Justice Rick Strange (of the Eastland Court) running for Justice […]
Entries from August 2009
Three candidates so far for O’Neill’s seat on the Texas Supreme Court
August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Three candidates so far for O’Neill’s seat on the Texas Supreme Court
Tags: Elections
Law clerk hiring officially kicks off on September 8th
August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Law clerk hiring officially kicks off on September 8th
The Court has posted some information about applying to be a law clerk at the Texas Supreme Court. These clerkships will begin in August […]
Tags: News and Links
Order List for August 14, 2009
August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Order List for August 14, 2009
This week’s order list has been released. As expected, it contained a relatively small number of petition denials of cases that were not held […]
Tags: Order Lists
Small programming note: New blog host
August 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Small programming note: New blog host
I’ve just moved the blog to a new hosting provider. In theory, everything should work just the same. If you experience any problems […]
Tags: SCOTXblog Announcements
Order List for August 7, 2009
August 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Order List for August 7, 2009
It was another quiet summer order list from the Texas Supreme Court this week.
This quiet spell is nearly over. Next week, the Court begins […]
Tags: Order Lists
Justice O’Neill decides to leave the bench
August 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Justice Harriett O’Neill released a statement today through the Court’s public information officer:
This week I met with Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson and informed him that […]
Tags: News and Links
Important Louisiana case about legal advertising on the internet
August 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Important Louisiana case about legal advertising on the internet
There is a pending case in Louisiana that could become very significant for lawyer advertising in Texas. In Public Citizen, Inc., et al. v. […]
Tags: Legal Tech · News and Links
Who owns your appellate briefs?
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
There was a really interesting recent thread on the Volokh Conspiracy about whether West or Lexis selling access to appellate briefs was copyright infringement.
Both sides […]
Tags: Legal Tech · News and Links