The Court is officially closed today, tomorrow, and Friday (the 26th). By an email, the Court says that emergency requests should be directed by [...]

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In today’s order list, the Texas Supreme Court broke some new ground in how it interacts with the executive branch.

SOLICITOR GENERAL INVITED TO [...]

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The Court issued five merits decisions with today’s order list.

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., L.P. v. Mitchell, No. 05-0171. This judgment had a 5-3 split, [...]

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It was a relatively quiet in this week’s orders list.

In a quirky list, the Court struck some petitions for failure to comply with the briefing [...]

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A plaintiff in a fraud lawsuit against Mac Haik Ford placed a six-minute-long excerpt of a video deposition onto YouTube. The video clip included [...]

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A year ago this week, I hit “publish” on a short introductory post. Since then, I have (apparently) cranked out 267 more posts — which, [...]

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Yesterday, the Texas Supreme Court resolved two motions to participate in oral argument by amici — granting one request and denying the other.

In Gail Ashley [...]

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The Texas Supreme Court released four decisions with today’s order list:

In re GlobalSantaFe Corp., No. 07-0400 (Justice Willett)

In re General Electric Co., No. 07-0195 (Justice [...]

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The Statesman’s legal beat writer reports “Justice fined by ethics commission”

More context on today’s hearing is provided by the Houston Chronicle. The legal fees [...]

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Earlier this fall, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral argument in Tanner v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co., No. 07-0760 (details on DocketDB).

This case asks [...]

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The Court is closing down for a long weekend, and so am I. See you Monday!

In the meantime, if you want a little something [...]

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A few days ago, the Texas Supreme Court requested full briefing in State of Texas v. Public Utility Commission, No. 08-0421 (DocketDB). Regular readers [...]

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