If you rationalize your time watching ESPN as a way to supplement your legal news — and believe me, I’ve been there — you will [...]

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With today’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court turned away the second recent challenge to the Texas franchise tax.

In November, the Court upheld the tax [...]

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With its orders list today, the Texas Supreme Court did not choose any new cases for argument or issue opinions. But it did reshuffle [...]

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With today’s orders list (earlier post), the Court also chose six cases for oral argument.

Wendell Reeder v. Wood County Energy, LLC; Wood County [...]

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The Texas Supreme Court issued several opinions with today’s orders list. The Court also chose six cases for future oral arguments, including the family-law [...]

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The Court did not issue any opinions with today’s orders list, but it granted rehearing in a case about how the statute of frauds applies [...]

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There were no opinions issues with today’s orders list.

The Court’s next internal conference begins January 23rd.

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In today’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court chose a new case for argument later this year — a (rare) direct appeal, this one raising [...]

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The Court did not issue weekly orders today. The last orders were issued on December 22, 2011.

There was something interesting in that last [...]

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The Court’s orders list today did not include any opinions or choose any new cases for oral argument.

According to the Court’s online calendar, next Friday [...]

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With today’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court did not issue any opinions or choose new cases for argument.

It did grant one motion for divided [...]

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In re Allcat Claims Service, L.P. and John Weakly, No. 11-0589

The Texas Constitution prohibits the Legislature from imposing an income tax unless the voters of [...]

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