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Entries from December 2010

No orders today [Dec. 31, 2010]

December 31st, 2010 · No Comments

With both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve falling on Fridays this year, it is no surprise that the Texas Supreme Court has not issued [...]

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A busy week for tort law, and one new grant [Dec. 17, 2010]

December 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

With Friday’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court issued two new decisions that will be important to the Texas tort bar. It also issued [...]

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Tags: Order Lists

Texas’ new Solicitor General: Jonathan Mitchell

December 10th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Yesterday was (now former) Texas Solicitor General Jim Ho’s last day.

The interregnum did not last long. Today, Jonathan Mitchell of George Mason Law School [...]

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Quiet orders list today [Dec. 10, 2010]

December 10th, 2010 · No Comments

The Texas Supreme Court did not issue any opinions or select new cases for argument with today’s orders list.

The Justices have a private conference next [...]

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Tags: Order Lists

Lessons for Texas appellate lawyers in the latest SCOTX statistics

December 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Last week, the Office of Court Administration released its official 2010 statistics page. On that list is the “Supreme Court Activity” document that is [...]

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Tags: Practice Notes

A Texas concurrence makes the Washington op-ed pages

December 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

First, Justice Willett’s concurring opinion in the Robinson case attracted attention from notable appellate geeks and other geeks more likely to read Wired for the [...]

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Nine sets of opinions and three grants [Dec. 3, 2010]

December 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

With today’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court issued nine sets of opinions and granted three new cases for review.

This post discusses the new grants. [...]

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Tags: Order Lists