Last week, the Texas Senate Jurisprudence Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 780, the bill to require the Texas Supreme Court to report how each […]

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The Texas Supreme Court handed down opinions in six cases in this morning’s order list and — in perfect balance — selected six new cases […]

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The Chief Justice wrote this op-ed advocating merit selection for judges in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle.

The piece echoes the call for merit selection and retention elections […]

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In today’s quiet weekly order list, the Texas Supreme Court denied (or struck) just a handful of petitions. No opinions were issued, and no […]

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The Texas Supreme Court did not issue any opinions or grant any new petitions for review with this week’s order list. The Court did […]

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Limiting When Rules Can Be Made

Proposed House Bill 2702 tries to bring the Court’s rulemaking power under more fine-grained Legislative control. To keep the […]

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The Texas Supreme Court has three days of argument scheduled this week.

The first is an “away game” at South Texas College of Law on Tuesday. […]

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A mandamus petition asking that question about Texas statutory probate courts is now pending in the Court. It also raises some question about the […]

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