LUBBOCK -- Texas Tech School of Law dean and professor Darby Dickerson has announced she is leaving to become the new dean at the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago, starting Jan. 1, 2017.
AUSTIN – On Aug. 25, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a guidance letter to educational institutions in Texas regarding the nationwide injunction issued by a federal court that blocked enforcement of the federal guidance letter on transgender restrooms. Paxton’s letter explains that, in light of the injunction, no educational institution in Texas needs to change its policies regarding intimate facilities to comply with the unenforceable federal guidelines.
AUSTIN – The Texas attorney general is leading a 13-state coalition in a bid to resist an Obama administration directive that would effectively require all public schools and businesses to open up all intimate areas – rest rooms, locker rooms, showers, etc. – to both sexes.
FORT WORTH—Fort Worth schools are coming under attack after Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a nonbinding opinion that the Fort Worth Independent School District’s (ISD) transgender-inclusive policy violates a state law.
HOUSTON – A Harris County district court issued a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against a Houston-based learning center charged with unlawfully marketing and selling fraudulent high school diplomas.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he was “shocked to learn” that 78 Texas school districts, including the Beaumont Independent School District, have failed to meet state-mandated safety measures.
Zamora The University of Houston Law Center on April 3 announced the establishment of the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, which is the first independent research center in the United States dedicated to the study of Mexican law and legal aspects of U.S. � Mexico relations.
TEXARKANA, Ark. � The mother of a pregnant teen is claiming the girl's civil rights were violated when she was expelled from a private Christian school.
