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Four opinions, with the first dissents and concurrence of the Term [Feb. 19, 2010]

February 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Four opinions, with the first dissents and concurrence of the Term [Feb. 19, 2010]

With today’s order list, the Texas Supreme Court issued merits opinions in four pending cases.

Adequacy of class representative

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Marketing on Hold, […]

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Tags: Order Lists

Candidate Q&A: Justice Rebecca Simmons

February 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on Candidate Q&A: Justice Rebecca Simmons

I’m pleased to present you with our first candidate Q&A of the 2010 election season.

Justice Rebecca Simmons currently serves on the Fourth Court of Appeals […]

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Tags: Elections

Oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 17 and Feb. 18

February 16th, 2010 · Comments Off on Oral arguments scheduled for Feb. 17 and Feb. 18

The Texas Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday and three cases on Thursday. Among the Wednesday arguments is […]

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Tags: Case Notes

Takings claim for a house already determined to be a nuisance; bank liability for disbursing estate funds to an imposter [arguments for Feb. 16, 2010]

February 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on Takings claim for a house already determined to be a nuisance; bank liability for disbursing estate funds to an imposter [arguments for Feb. 16, 2010]

The Texas Supreme Court is hearing oral argument on Tuesday, February 15th in two cases: City of Dallas v. Stewart, No. 09-0257 (docket and briefs) […]

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Tags: Case Notes

Federal suit against the Texas Supreme Court asking for a quicker ruling

February 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments

File this under “be careful what you ask for.”

A group of class-action plaintiffs has filed a federal lawsuit demanding that the Texas Supreme Court issue […]

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Tags: News and Links

Starting today, electronic copies of Texas Supreme Court briefs are mandatory

February 15th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Beginning today, Texas Supreme Court litigants are required to file electronic versions of their briefs along with their paper copies.

This is not a true e-filing […]

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Tags: Practice Notes

Without owning up to its privacy blunder, Google announces future fixes to Buzz

February 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments

In a blog post this afternoon, Google has announced that it will be making some changes to Buzz.

That’s good news.

In the future (“starting this week”), […]

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Tags: Legal Tech

Gmail’s “turn off buzz” (still) does not turn off Buzz; here’s how to really do it

February 12th, 2010 · 23 Comments

I received lots of feedback to yesterday’s post “Lawyers (or journalists) with Gmail accounts: Careful with the Google Buzz”. My focus was the privacy […]

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Tags: Legal Tech