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Morgan Lewis’s James Nortey Named Outstanding Diversity Champion by Houston Business Journal.
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AUSTIN - Texas school districts may not withhold medical or health information about a minor child from the child’s parent or legal guardian, according to an opinion released by Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday.
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Jones Day hosts fifth annual Perspectives and Pathways 1L Diversity Conference.
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AUSTIN—Texas attorneys elected Cindy V. Tisdale of Granbury to be president-elect of the State Bar of Texas, a press release states.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.
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After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
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Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.
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The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
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AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion today on whether NCAA’s policies on transgender student-athletes violate Title IX or any other state or federal laws.
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AUSTIN - The Coats-Snowe Amendment prohibits Texas from discriminating against physicians, medical students, or graduate medical education training programs for their refusal to participate in abortion related training, opined Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday.
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DALLAS — Continuing its expansion in Texas, O’Melveny has announced the arrival of “rising star” trial and appellate lawyer Kristin Cope as a partner in the firm’s new Dallas office, a press release states.
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HOUSTON – At a special meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, the Court voted to direct Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee to negotiate a temporary stay of the county’s lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) over the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP).
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Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.
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American history is under siege.
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The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Sept. 9 in the suits below:
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The following cases categorized as "contract - consumer/commercial/debt" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Sept. 9. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Sept. 8 in the suits below:
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The following cases categorized as "contract - consumer/commercial/debt" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Sept. 8. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity on Sept. 7 in the suits below:
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The following cases categorized as "contract - consumer/commercial/debt" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on Sept. 7. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
