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Dueling amicus briefs about the role of mediation in family law

January 26th, 2012 · No Comments

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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Tags: Case Notes · News and Links

Welcome to two new Texas-based appellate blogs: Circuit Splits and Texas Appellate Watch!

January 23rd, 2012 · No Comments

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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Texas chief justices gathering in Austin, will speak Thursday to the Austin appellate bar

January 18th, 2012 · No Comments

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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Beachfront takings is back on the docket; the laser hair removal case is gone [Oct. 7, 2011]

October 7th, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: News and Links

Issues in the October sitting; new Fifth Circuit blog; first report on the 2012 SCOTX elections

October 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Case Notes · Elections · News and Links · Weekly Previews

How many opinions are left in the pipeline? No opinions today [Sep. 2, 2011]

September 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: News and Links · Order Lists

Clerkship applications open for the Texas Supreme Court’s 2012-2013 term

August 10th, 2011 · No Comments

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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“Common Blunders in Texas Supreme Court Briefs”

August 8th, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: Legal Writing · News and Links · Practice Notes

The Perry travel-voucher case (almost) takes a very strange twist

July 26th, 2011 · No Comments

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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Our CLE on making effective electronic briefs

June 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Electronic Briefs · News and Links · Practice Notes

Redaction failures in PACER

May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: Electronic Briefs · News and Links

Will Texas courts shift to a PACER-style model of access to court records?

April 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment

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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