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Former Texas House Parliamentarian Denise Davis has been appointed to a special task force established by the Texas Supreme Court to “begin design and implementation of an emergency program to prevent or manage disrupted court operations throughout the state in emergencies.”
Very interesting. While Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick (R-Midland) continues to try and run Davis [...]

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As the Texas Supreme Court considers an appeal by British Petroleum asking it to reverse a lower court’s order directing the company’s kinghted former CEO to tell plaintiffs what he knows about the 2005 BP refinery explosion in Texas City–which killed 15 workers, watchdog group Texans for Public Justice has revealed that justices on the [...]

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I Was the State, a blog by a North Texas criminal defense lawyer, recently posted some information from the NORML listserv about allegations concerning warrantless searches allegedly being conducted by the Austin Police Department.
According to the information from the listserv, APD has been given access to computer files of Austin Energy and is [...]

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For those who first learned about the reprimand of Federal District Judge Samuel B. Kent from a front-page headline in the Houston Chronicle, The Galveston County Daily News has a new twist in the saga this week:
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I’ve never been a fan of the “minute of silence” law passed during the Morality Session (aka 78th) of the Texas Legislature back in 2003.
Now, it seems that a memo from the former Commissioner of Education may have provided the ammunition for a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional:
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When Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht defended one-time girlfriend Harriet Miers and former Texas Lottery Commission chairwoman right, left, and center upon her doomed nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, no one probably thought it would lead to multiple controversies surrounding Hecht and corporate payola.
But, as may things with Republicans, it has:
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[Ed. Note: As we continue to play catch-up from our vacation, forgive us if things are a little stale, but we're trying to hit on all the important stuff we've missed. On some of these things, we'll be using press release and MSM coverage.]
From a Press Release of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education [...]

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State District Judge Stephen Yelenosky today issued a temporary injunction that halts permitting on more than a dozen coal power plants utilities giant TXU plans to build in Central and East Texas.
This means that, in addition to forcing the State Office of Administrative Hearings to reconsider its docket on the cases relating to the plants, [...]

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You’ve got to love the battles that sometimes develop between the Legislature and the higher courts in Texas. Not bloody fights, perhaps but little jabs of words that are part of an admittedly mostly one-sided exchange.
Bradley Clark over at Texas Law Blog (one of our favorite law blogs), discusses a recent opinion from the Court [...]

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