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 [...]
Entries from December 2010
No orders today [Dec. 31, 2010]
December 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: News and Links
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Tags: Order Lists

