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Judge denies temporary injunction in the SCOTX candidate-eligibility challenge

January 6th, 2014 · Comments Off on Judge denies temporary injunction in the SCOTX candidate-eligibility challenge

The Statesman has a report from today’s hearing in the challenge involving Place 6 on the ballot.

An evidentiary hearing was held this morning on a […]

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Tags: Elections

Challenge to Justice Brown’s place on the 2014 ballot

January 3rd, 2014 · Comments Off on Challenge to Justice Brown’s place on the 2014 ballot

Texas election season really begins with the first ballot-eligibility challenge.

This year, there is a challenge to whether one of the incumbent Texas Supreme Court Justices, […]

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Candidate lists for the 2014 Texas Supreme Court elections

December 10th, 2013 · Comments Off on Candidate lists for the 2014 Texas Supreme Court elections

In 2014, four seats on the Texas Supreme Court will be on the ballot. The official candidate lists are still being assembled after the Monday […]

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Tags: Elections

Petty v. Texas Republican Party: Suit challenging Justice Hecht’s place on the primary ballot

May 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment

I haven’t written much about this year’s elections for the Texas Supreme Court. In 2010, there was an open seat, and it seemed like […]

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Tags: Elections

Opinion issued in the Palomo elections case; no new petitions granted [Apr. 27, 2012]

April 27th, 2012 · Comments Off on Opinion issued in the Palomo elections case; no new petitions granted [Apr. 27, 2012]

With today’s orders list, the Texas Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion explaining its March 28th order in the Palomo elections case.

In re Rebecca […]

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Tags: Case Notes · Order Lists

This Week at SCOTX [Aug. 15, 2011]

August 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on This Week at SCOTX [Aug. 15, 2011]

Here’s what is on the Court’s calendar for this week:

Conference (Tuesday): This is the Court’s first private conference in more than a month. I […]

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Tags: Weekly Previews

Texas Supreme Court election returns, and other Texas judicial races

November 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Texas Supreme Court election returns, and other Texas judicial races

Texas Supreme Court election returns (wins by incumbents Green, Guzman, and Lehrmann). An incumbent loses in Corpus Christi. And Third Court results.

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Lehrmann wins close primary runoff

April 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on Lehrmann wins close primary runoff

The turnout for the runoff in the 2010 Texas Republican primary was 2.55% of registered Texas voters. So it’s no surprise that the Secretary […]

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Tags: Elections