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WASHINGTON – The Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law today filed an amicus brief in Biden v. Texas arguing that injunctions obtained by individual states should rarely be applied nationwide, and instead should generally be limited to the territory of the states that filed suit.
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SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio attorney has been sued for defamation over a Netflix series called Dirty Money, which featured the guardianship of an elderly man who had some $3 million in assets, according to a press release.
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Husch Blackwell has elected 23 attorneys to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2021.
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HOUSTON – One of Texas’ most recognizable trial layers says he wants to put Houston on the map by becoming the city’s next mayor.
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My law school years (1977-80) at the University of Texas were, in hindsight, close to idyllic. I loved my first-year professors, tuition at UT was dirt cheap, Austin was a wonderful place to live, and I reveled in the “college town” ambience, which was new to me. (Prior to arriving at UT, I had never attended a college football game. During my first year—when the Longhorns went undefeated in the regular season and Earl Campbell won the Heisman Trophy–I had season tickets on the 50-yard line at UT’s gigantic Memorial Stadium, for a pittance that even a broke law student could afford.) The post-game victory spectacle—honking horns on the Drag and the Tower lit up in orange—formed indelible memories.
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At the University of Texas School of Law, on March 6, 2018 the student chapter of the Federalist Society sponsored a debate on the impact of race-based affirmative action on Asian-Americans. The speakers were noted UT law professor Sanford Levinson (defending racial and ethnic preferences) and Houston attorney Cory Liu, a volunteer with the organization Students for Fair Admissions, speaking in opposition. The speakers eloquently exchanged their views, before an attentive audience of over 100 persons, for nearly an hour, and then opened the discussion up to questions.
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For one prominent Texas attorney, 2017 was memorable for mostly the wrong reasons.
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HOUSTON – A local attorney reportedly took to social media to call for the termination of Texas A&M head football coach Kevin Sumlin.
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HOUSTON - When Enron filed for bankruptcy, the troubled energy firm, like many major Texas companies before and after, opted for an east coast venue, rather than litigate in a Houston federal courtroom only a few blocks away.
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“Superstition ain’t the way.”
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I recently saw some footage of former "Sixth Sense" star Haley Joel Osment, now all grown up, acting in what seemed to be a forgettable role in an even more forgettable movie.
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Judd CHARLESTON, W.Va. � A man who sits in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, was picked by 41 percent of West Virginia Democrats in Tuesday's presidential primary.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The U.S. Senate has rejected one of President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.
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In one of history's more candid reflections, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Treasury Secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confessed, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work."
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Whenever I'm at a social or civic function, negative comments from people about the legal profession often appear to have a common source � television.
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Law school tends to attract all types of people, even if they don't always make it all the way through to graduation.
