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Entries from August 2009

Three candidates so far for O’Neill’s seat on the Texas Supreme Court

August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Three candidates so far for O’Neill’s seat on the Texas Supreme Court

I had heard about Justice Jim Moseley (of the Dallas Court and on Twitter) and Justice Rick Strange (of the Eastland Court) running for Justice […]

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Tags: Elections

Law clerk hiring officially kicks off on September 8th

August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Law clerk hiring officially kicks off on September 8th

The Court has posted some information about applying to be a law clerk at the Texas Supreme Court. These clerkships will begin in August […]

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Tags: News and Links

Order List for August 14, 2009

August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Order List for August 14, 2009

This week’s order list has been released. As expected, it contained a relatively small number of petition denials of cases that were not held […]

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Tags: Order Lists

Small programming note: New blog host

August 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Small programming note: New blog host

I’ve just moved the blog to a new hosting provider. In theory, everything should work just the same. If you experience any problems […]

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Tags: SCOTXblog Announcements

Order List for August 7, 2009

August 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Order List for August 7, 2009

It was another quiet summer order list from the Texas Supreme Court this week.

This quiet spell is nearly over. Next week, the Court begins […]

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Tags: Order Lists

Justice O’Neill decides to leave the bench

August 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Justice Harriett O’Neill released a statement today through the Court’s public information officer:

This week I met with Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson and informed him that […]

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Tags: News and Links

Important Louisiana case about legal advertising on the internet

August 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Important Louisiana case about legal advertising on the internet

There is a pending case in Louisiana that could become very significant for lawyer advertising in Texas. In Public Citizen, Inc., et al. v. […]

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Tags: Legal Tech · News and Links

Who owns your appellate briefs?

August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

There was a really interesting recent thread on the Volokh Conspiracy about whether West or Lexis selling access to appellate briefs was copyright infringement.

Both sides […]

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Tags: Legal Tech · News and Links