Don Cruse

The Texas Supreme Court did not issue any opinions with today’s orders list.

The Court did issue two preliminary orders related to the El Paso mayor-recall case Tom Brown Ministries v. John F. Cook, No. 12-0193. (previous blog post) After challengers obtained enough signatures to force a recall election, the El Paso Court held that some of the signatures had been gathered in violation of Texas campaign-finance law and that the scheduled recall election should not be held. Today, the Texas Supreme Court denied a request to temporarily “stay” the judgment of the court of appeals (which would have had the effect of re-instituting the recall election). The Court also denied what the docket sheet describes as “respondent’s request for damages.” 1 The Court has not yet decided the merits of the petition, which remains pending.

  1. I am guessing that the Respondent (the mayor) included a request for sanctions or other damages in his response to the stay request. The electronic version of his brief is not online. ↩