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Run off for District 17 Senate seat to be held Tuesday
Joan Huffman (R) Voters in six Southeast Texas counties shouldn't put their voter registration cards away just yet, as who will represent them in Austin in the state Senate has still not been decided. -
Texas SC justice fined $29,000 over ethics violation
Justice Nathan Hecht (R) AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht has been ordered to pay a $29,000 fine for accepting an illegal campaign contribution and failing to report the gift. -
Ethics commission hears complaint against Texas SC justice
Nathan Hecht (R) AUSTIN(Legal Newsline) - The Texas Ethics Commission today is considering a complaint filed last year against state Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht. -
Ethics panel advances complaint against Hecht; Postpones Medina matter
AUSTIN(Legal Newsline)-The Texas Ethics Commission has decided to hold a formal hearing to investigate charges that state Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht accepted an illegal campaign contribution, a watchdog group told Legal Newsline on Friday. -
Texas SC justices face ethics hearings
AUSTIN(Legal Newsline)- At least two Texas Supreme Court justices have ethics complaints pending against them. -
Legally Speaking: Justice for sale?
Perhaps it's only appropriate that in a hotly-contested election year, the latest legal thriller from trial lawyer-turned-literary-cottage-industry John Grisham centers on the buying of influence in the courts by moneyed special interests. -
Legally Speaking: Twelve Angry Men (and Women)
Last week, I reported on the strange case of Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina. Following the June 2007 fire that destroyed his Houston-area home under what Harris County Fire Marshals office investigators described as suspicious circumstances, Justice Medina and his wife Francisca were indicted by a grand jury. -
Legally Speaking: A Judicial Career Up in Flames? The Strange Case of David Medina
Justice David Medina seemed to have it all. -
Watts' wars
Mikal Watts South Texas trial lawyer Mikal Watts considers himself a warrior. His Watts Law Firm Website is full of quotes by Sun Tzu, a Chinese author who wrote the "Art of War" in the fifth-century B.C., and photos of masked fencers thrusting and jabbing at their foes. -
Lee files suit against Pate over campaign signs
Beaumont Councilman W.L. Pate He has already filed an informal complaint with the state election commission, and now local activist Allen Lee has filed a lawsuit against one of his opponents in the May 12 Beaumont city council election.