Flanked by Texas Bar Executive Director Trey Apffel and Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht – and, as alwwys by his side, his wife, Carla – Justice Phil Johnson said his goodbye to Texas lawyers, his former colleagues and other judges and friends Wednesday in a crowded reception at the Texas Law Center.
Standing before Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who nominated him, J. Brett Busby repeated the oath of office as the governor delivered it Wednesday afternoon, becoming the Court’s newest justice.
Attorney General Ken Paxton today applauded Governor Greg Abbott’s appointment of Brett Busby to the Texas Supreme Court to replace Justice Phil Johnson, who retired at the end of last year.
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 Supreme Court of Texas upheld a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the 14th District of Texas in a medical-malpractice case over a woman's death.
The City of Houston will have to face up to litigation in its ongoing dispute with the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System following a Texas Supreme Court decision earlier this month that found the city has no immunity in the case.
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.
The Texas Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Patel v. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, striking down a state law requiring at least 750 hours of training in order to perform commercial “eyebrow threading”—a form of hair removal mainly performed in South Asian and Middle Eastern communities—has generated substantial notoriety for the court and for the Institute for Justice, which brought the lawsuit challenging the law.
AUSTIN – A report released earlier this month purportedly analyzed the influence of big business on state supreme courts, finding high courts with multimillion-dollar elections favor corporations.
AUSTIN – Liberties and rights of Texans depend on general diffusion of knowledge, according to the state Constitution, but its vague requirement of an efficient school system has trapped Texas in a cycle of laws and lawsuits. Now the Supreme Court must decide whether to uphold current school funding law or scrap it and order the Legislature to write new law. The Justices heard oral argument from 10 lawyers on Sept. 1, over a Travis County court order declaring current law unconstitutional. Re
On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court reversed a ruling by an appellate court allowing a former employee’s defamation suit against Shell Oil to proceed – a 2013 ruling some entities believed left companies open to civil actions for being forthright with federal regulatory agencies.
Three years ago, a Texas Supreme Court ruling blurred the lines on lawsuits against medical providers, theoretically requiring even slip and fall plaintiffs to file a medical expert report when suing a hospital.
The candidates may have to wait a while for the official results, but it looks like the incumbent justices on the Texas Supreme Court will hold onto to their seats.
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – While many contend Republicans and tort reform go hand-in-hand, one influential Texas businessman says the GOP challengers running against the incumbent Texas Supreme Court justices are not pro-tort reform.
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) – Knowing that it would be next to impossible to elect a Democrat, trial lawyers are now financing the political campaigns of Republicans seeking to usurp Texas’s current Supreme Court justices, according to a legal reform group.
AUSTIN (Legal Newsline) – With early voting around the corner, three out of the four Texas Supreme Court justices up for reelection this year will face competition from members of their own Republican party in the March primary.
Local rice farmers and landowners breathed a collective sigh of relief on Friday, after the Texas Supreme Court denied a pipeline company's second motion on rehearing in a case over its common carrier status.
