Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman will be featured in Lady Justice: Women of the Court, a new podcast series produced by the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Public Education Program.
Attorney General Ken Paxton today commended President Trump’s nomination of current Texas Deputy First Assistant Attorney General Brantley Starr to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas.
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas reversed an appeals court decision Dec. 7, 2017, addressing the power of the court in the political question doctrine after a military dog bit a woman on a base in Afghanistan.
AUSTIN –The Texas Supreme Court upheld the 4th Court of Appeals decision that a city cannot impose an ordinance banning single-use plastic or paper bags by merchants, a ruling that could end the statewide single-use bag bans.
Texas’s employment discrimination statute (the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, codified in the Texas Labor Code at section 21.001 et seq.), like its federal counterpart (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. section 2000e et seq.), prohibits discrimination on the basis of enumerated characteristics, including “sex.” Accordingly, an employer is forbidden to treat an applicant or employee differently because of that person’s sex. Without a sex-based nexus, the employer’s conduct may be rude, unfair, obnoxious, boorish, or insensitive, but will not constitute illegal sex discrimination.
AUSTIN – In an opinion delivered Feb. 2, the Texas Supreme Court overturned the dismissal of a woman’s medical malpractice lawsuit after it was dismissed by a court of appeals on the grounds that her expert report was deficient.
BEAUMONT – Primarily a Democratic stronghold, Jefferson County voters favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the General Election by the slightest of margins.
The long-awaited decision from the Texas Supreme Court in the school finance case, Morath v. Texas Taxpayer and Student Fairness Coalition, was issued on May 13, 2016. (The case was argued over eight months earlier.) The court’s jargon-laden 100-page (!) decision can be summarized with this sentence: “Despite the imperfections of the current school funding regime, it meets minimum constitutional requirements.”
With campaign finance reports in for the first three weeks of January, records show at least two out of the three incumbent Texas Supreme justices up for re-election this year hold a financial edge over their Republican challengers.
This is another post on the races currently underway for three seats on the Texas
Supreme Court. I have previously written ... about the race between
incumbent Justice Debra Lehrmann and challenger Justice Michael Massengale for
Place 3, and the potentially confusing race between incumbent Justice Paul W.
Green and challenger Rick Green for Place 5. In this post I discuss the race
between incumbent Justice Eva Guzman and challenger Joe Pool Jr. for Place 9.
AUSTIN – Houston can punish air polluters as criminals in a manner consistent with state regulators who impose civil penalties, the city argued at the Supreme Court on Sept. 2. Houston seeks Court approval of an ordinance creating an agency to enforce air quality regulations of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Businesses with state emission permits have delayed enforcement since 2008. At oral argument, the theory of city counsel Robert Higgason that city and state enforcement wo
Private entities operating like a chamber of commerce are not government bodies and therefore are not subject to the Public Information Act, even if they receive public funding, the Texas Supreme Court opined June 26.
Guzman AUSTIN � Dallas County District Judge Gena Slaughter improperly confined a defendant in a civil suit for lying at a deposition, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled on May 27.
Fracking well site AUSTIN � Trucks hauling salty water from fracture drilling operations to a waste well won't trample on the public interest, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled on March 11.
