The Court is not issuing its normal weekly orders this week. The last orders for the 2008 Term issued on December 19th.

The Court should […]

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The Court is officially closed today, tomorrow, and Friday (the 26th). By an email, the Court says that emergency requests should be directed by […]

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In today’s order list, the Texas Supreme Court broke some new ground in how it interacts with the executive branch.

SOLICITOR GENERAL INVITED TO […]

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The Court issued five merits decisions with today’s order list.

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., L.P. v. Mitchell, No. 05-0171. This judgment had a 5-3 split, […]

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It was a relatively quiet in this week’s orders list.

In a quirky list, the Court struck some petitions for failure to comply with the briefing […]

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A plaintiff in a fraud lawsuit against Mac Haik Ford placed a six-minute-long excerpt of a video deposition onto YouTube. The video clip included […]

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A year ago this week, I hit “publish” on a short introductory post. Since then, I have (apparently) cranked out 267 more posts — which, […]

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Yesterday, the Texas Supreme Court resolved two motions to participate in oral argument by amici — granting one request and denying the other.

In Gail Ashley […]

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