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Voters will choose a new presiding judge for Texas’ Court of Criminal Appeals after the current officeholder, Republican Sharon Keller, lost her party’s primary on March 5. The court, which has nine ...

The site says while Texas has been the gold standard for balanced courts in the past, cracks are starting to show in the ...

The Republican Party of Texas rejected both applications after opponents challenged their petitions and the party concluded ...

More than a decade after his 2015 sexual assault conviction, Texas appeals courts continue to reject challenges by former ...

A Texas judge found the law requiring adults and minors to verify their age before downloading apps or making in-app ...

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Texas must establish a court that is dedicated to efficiently adjudicating complex business disputes, writes Jason Villalba. Getty Images Non-lawyers are often troubled by the fact that under both ...

Although Texas has long championed itself as the best state for businesses—based on surveys, number of corporate relocations, and the number of Fortune 500 companies in Texas—Texas lagged other ...

Still, the fact that Supreme Court justices are ex-officio superior to their district court brethren does not mean that they ...

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The Court held the State failed to sufficiently plead allegations of general jurisdiction in its petition but established specific jurisdiction based on Yelp’s Texas-targeted online conduct, reasoning ...