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Entries from February 2010

Candidate Q&A: Judge Debra Lehrmann

February 28th, 2010 · Comments Off

I’m pleased to present you with our third candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Judge Debra Lehrmann currently serves as District Judge of the 360th [...]

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Tags: Elections

State Bar judicial candidate poll results

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Earlier this week, the State Bar of Texas released the results of its member poll about judicial candidates.

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Tags: Elections

No opinions today [Feb. 26, 2010]

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

The Texas Supreme Court did not issue any opinions with today’s orders list.

The big event next week is the primary election on Tuesday, March 2nd. [...]

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Tags: Order Lists

Candidate Q&A: Justice Rick Strange

February 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off

I’m pleased to present you with our second candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rick Strange currently serves on the Eleventh Court of Appeals [...]

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Tags: Elections

Notes from “An Evening with the Supreme Court of Texas”

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Last week, the Austin Bar Association sponsored “An Evening with the Supreme Court of Texas,” featuring a panel discussion in which six of the Justices [...]

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Tags: Practice Notes

Four opinions, with the first dissents and concurrence of the Term [Feb. 19, 2010]

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments

With today’s order list, the Texas Supreme Court issued merits opinions in four pending cases.

Adequacy of class representative Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Marketing on Hold, [...]

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Tags: Order Lists

Candidate Q&A: Justice Rebecca Simmons

February 17th, 2010 · Comments Off

I’m pleased to present you with our first candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rebecca Simmons currently serves on the Fourth Court of Appeals [...]

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Tags: Elections

Oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 17 and Feb. 18

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

The Texas Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday and three cases on Thursday. Among the Wednesday arguments is [...]

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Tags: Case Notes

Takings claim for a house already determined to be a nuisance; bank liability for disbursing estate funds to an imposter [arguments for Feb. 16, 2010]

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments

The Texas Supreme Court is hearing oral argument on Tuesday, February 15th in two cases: City of Dallas v. Stewart, No. 09-0257 (docket and briefs) [...]

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Tags: Case Notes

Federal suit against the Texas Supreme Court asking for a quicker ruling

February 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments

File this under “be careful what you ask for.”

A group of class-action plaintiffs has filed a federal lawsuit demanding that the Texas Supreme Court issue [...]

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Tags: News and Links

Starting today, electronic copies of Texas Supreme Court briefs are mandatory

February 15th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Beginning today, Texas Supreme Court litigants are required to file electronic versions of their briefs along with their paper copies.

This is not a true e-filing [...]

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Tags: Practice Notes

Without owning up to its privacy blunder, Google announces future fixes to Buzz

February 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments

In a blog post this afternoon, Google has announced that it will be making some changes to Buzz.

That’s good news.

In the future (“starting this week”), [...]

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Tags: Legal Tech