AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a lawsuit against four battleground states in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stop the electoral college from finalizing Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race.
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as her successor have raised anxieties about a reconfigured court’s impact on our environmental laws. Barrett’s refusal to answer questions on climate change during her confirmation hearings has only increased worries about the future of climate legislation and environmental protection if she joins the court.
Our collective perceptions of trial lawyers comes from the golden era of television, where the practice of trial law was romanticized over decades. Whether the public’s perception of the lives and careers of trial lawyers were shaped by Mason, Matlock, Becker - or even Goodman, Chiles, and Hutz - these characters brought the lives of trial lawyers into our living rooms.
Sadly, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Beta Ginsburg passed away last Friday. Her death came the day after the country celebrated Constitution Day, fitting in a way. She is being appropriately honored for her service to the country. Who will replace her and when is a political question that will no doubt be a great battle. But, before that we should all remember the good judge.
SAN FRANCISCO — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are leading a 17-state coalition asking a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court ruling that brought pipeline construction to a grinding halt nationwide.
Perhaps unfairly, most jurists are quickly forgotten when they leave the bench. Some are remembered only in infamy: the “Four Horsemen” who blocked the New Deal early on; Roger Taney for the Dred Scott decision; Harry Blackmun as the unlikely author of Roe v. Wade, and so forth. Justices with a literary flair tend to linger in the public mind, explaining the enduring influence of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Robert Jackson, among a handful of others.
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.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a letter urging the State Bar of Texas to drop any consideration of American Bar Association Model Rule 8.4(g).
You’d think a group of people could define “nonpartisanship” and agree on how to implement and maintain it: by consciously making an effort to be impartial and unbiased, not favoring one party or faction over another, trying to be moderate or middle of the road on the issues of the day and not lean one way or the other, perhaps even establishing a list of topics that the group chooses not to take positions on.
HOUSTON - Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan today joined a lawsuit seeking to stop the federal government from excluding undocumented immigrants from counting toward apportioning Congress.
NEW ORLEANS – Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown his support behind a trio of attorneys seeking to end mandatory dues imposed by the State Bar of Texas – dues that go toward funding the Bar’s “divisive ideological agenda,” according to the AG.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is expressing gratification after the U.S. Supreme Court again agreed with a West Virginia- and Texas-led 18-state coalition to block a Montana district court’s decision that he says brought construction of many pipelines nationally to a grinding halt.
After California municipalities filed suit against ExxonMobil for contributing to the alleged effects of climate change, Exxon petitioned Tarrant County District Court for pre-suit discovery for a potential lawsuit of its own against the plaintiffs. The municipalities unsuccessfully challenged the trial court’s jurisdiction.
AUSTIN - A Haynes and Boone appellate team led by Partner Mark Trachtenberg persuaded the Texas Supreme Court on June 19 to vacate a $16.5 million judgment and deny injunctive relief in a highly contentious trade secret dispute.