A recent issue of Texas Lawyer includes the article “Family Law Council Files Rare Amicus Over Mediation Issue”.

The case is In re Stephanie Lee, No. [...]

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I’ve recently come across two new appellate blogs with a Texas connection. If these strike your fancy, you may want to add them to [...]

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This Thursday, the regular luncheon for the appellate section of the Austin Bar will be hosting chief justices from across Texas’s fourteen courts of appeals. [...]

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It was a short orders list today. Two of the entries involved cases that the Court had previously placed into “abated” status, removing them [...]

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New Fifth Circuit blog

David Coale, former head of the State Bar appellate section, has started a new blog about the Fifth Circuit. It’s called [...]

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The Court did not issue any opinions with today’s orders list. It did bring back one previously abated case to its docket, the Bison [...]

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It’s once again the season that law students apply for judicial clerkships. I clerked at the Court about a decade ago and know that [...]

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Last Friday, Texas Lawyer published a helpful article: “Common Blunders in Texas Supreme Court Briefs”. It was written by Martha Lackritz, who just finished [...]

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Texas Department of Public Safety v. Cox Texas Newspapers, L.P., No. 09-0530 (Tex. July 1, 2011) (majority) (concurrence)

A few days ago, I saw this story [...]

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I will not be posting about the Friday orders list this week or next. You are on your own until June 22nd, when I [...]

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So, how often do counsel botch an e-filing by leaving in redacted information?

Tim Lee has done a study of redaction failures using a nice-sized subset [...]

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The Judicial Commission on Information Technology and the Texas Office of Court Administration have issued a “Request for Information” about a new e-filing system for [...]

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