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Opinions in four cases [Jan. 17, 2014]

January 17th, 2014 · Comments Off on Opinions in four cases [Jan. 17, 2014]

The Court issued opinion in four cases with today’s orders list. It granted review in six cases in a special orders list released Wednesday […]

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Tags: Order Lists

Stop the presses! No more paper copies required in SCOTX

January 15th, 2014 · 1 Comment

I’ve been asked to pass along this happy news: Effective immediately, the Texas Supreme Court does not require any paper courtesy copies for e-filed […]

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Tags: Practice Notes

SCOTX grants six cases today for argument in February [Jan. 15, 2014]

January 15th, 2014 · Comments Off on SCOTX grants six cases today for argument in February [Jan. 15, 2014]

As I speculated last Friday, the Court did issue a mid-week orders list with grants today for its early February argument calendar.

The surprise is that […]

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Tags: Order Lists

No opinions; argument date set in workers comp certified question [Jan. 10, 2014]

January 10th, 2014 · Comments Off on No opinions; argument date set in workers comp certified question [Jan. 10, 2014]

With today’s orders list, the Court did not issue any opinions.

The Court did announce an argument date for State Office of Risk Management v. Christy […]

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Tags: Order Lists

Judge denies temporary injunction in the SCOTX candidate-eligibility challenge

January 6th, 2014 · Comments Off on Judge denies temporary injunction in the SCOTX candidate-eligibility challenge

The Statesman has a report from today’s hearing in the challenge involving Place 6 on the ballot.

An evidentiary hearing was held this morning on a […]

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Tags: Elections

Challenge to Justice Brown’s place on the 2014 ballot

January 3rd, 2014 · Comments Off on Challenge to Justice Brown’s place on the 2014 ballot

Texas election season really begins with the first ballot-eligibility challenge.

This year, there is a challenge to whether one of the incumbent Texas Supreme Court Justices, […]

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Tags: Elections

No grants to start the year [Jan. 3, 2014]

January 3rd, 2014 · Comments Off on No grants to start the year [Jan. 3, 2014]

With today’s orders list, the Court did not issue any opinions or select any cases for argument.

The Court has an argument sitting next week, and […]

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Tags: Order Lists

No opinions or grants [Dec. 20, 2013]

December 20th, 2013 · Comments Off on No opinions or grants [Dec. 20, 2013]

This week’s orders list brought no opinions or grants.

I would make a short comment on how that was the last full orders list of the […]

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Tags: Order Lists