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This Week in SCOTX [Sep. 6, 2011]

September 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on This Week in SCOTX [Sep. 6, 2011]

Here’s what is on the Court’s calendar for this week:

Labor Day (Monday)

The state bar’s Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar (Thursday & Friday). Three of the […]

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Tags: Weekly Previews

How many opinions are left in the pipeline? No opinions today [Sep. 2, 2011]

September 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on How many opinions are left in the pipeline? No opinions today [Sep. 2, 2011]

The Court did not issue any opinions with today’s orders list. It did bring back one previously abated case to its docket, the Bison […]

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Tags: News and Links · Order Lists

Rule change: Permissive interlocutory appeals

September 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments

New rules should make it easier to get early interlocutory review of key issues in a case.

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Tags: Practice Notes

This Week at SCOTX [Aug. 29, 2011]

August 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on This Week at SCOTX [Aug. 29, 2011]

Here’s what is on the Court’s calendar for this week:

Last Day of the Fiscal Year (Wednesday): August 31st is the end of the fiscal year […]

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Tags: Weekly Previews

Orders released; blog post delayed

August 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on Orders released; blog post delayed

With the last Friday orders list of the fiscal year, the Court released opinions in 19 cases today. The Court also granted review in […]

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Tags: Order Lists

The constitutional challenge to Texas’s business tax is on a fast track [Updated]

August 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on The constitutional challenge to Texas’s business tax is on a fast track [Updated]

Allcat Claims Service L.P. and John Weakly v. Susan Combs, No. 11-0589

The Texas Supreme Court has set a fast-track schedule for the challenge to Texas’s […]

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Tags: Case Notes

This Week at SCOTX [Aug. 22, 2011]

August 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on This Week at SCOTX [Aug. 22, 2011]

It’s the last full week of the Term, so I’m expecting a busy Friday. The Court released a bunch of new briefing requests. And I discover the jurisprudence of cartoon animals.

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Tags: Weekly Previews

Five new cases for argument in December [Aug. 19, 2011]

August 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment

There were no opinions on today’s orders list, but the Court did work through many of the petitions that had accumulated during its break. […]

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Tags: Order Lists