JURIST

MARCH 20, 2024

Trevino , which concerns the arrest of a Castle Hills, Texas councilwoman who argues that she was arrested in retaliation for her critical speech about the city’s government. Later, the police charged Gonzalez with violating a state law prohibiting impairing or removing government records.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton offered to end a whistleblower lawsuit against him on Thursday by not contesting the facts of the case and accepting any judgment against him. Last year, t he Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Paxton by a vote of 121 to 23. Paxton was acquitted on all charges at his impeachment trial.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 3, 2021

“Raffi Melkonian — Texas Appellate Litigator and #AppellateTwitter Dean”: You can access episode #003 of the new “ How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin ” via this link. The podcast’s host is a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed Senate Bill 1 into law on Tuesday placing further restrictions on voting in the state. ” After signing the bill, he shared that he would “be astonished if a law like this was not challenged in court.” ” The Texas legislature passed SB 1 last week. .”

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

million settlement with families of those injured and killed in the 2017 mass shooting at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. Today’s announcement brings the litigation to a close, ending a painful chapter for the victims of this unthinkable crime. The US Department of Justice Wednesday reached a $144.5

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2022

The Texas and Ohio Supreme Courts Friday denied motions by state abortion providers seeking relief from the states’ now-effective anti-abortion laws. Earlier this week, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing a century-old state law that criminalizes abortion from taking effect.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

A standing committee of the State Bar of Texas filed a Complaint in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas against former president Donald Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell, claiming that she engaged in misconduct by pursuing baseless lawsuits alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election. a)(1) , 3.03(a)(5) a)(5) , and 8.04(a)(3)

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the year-end bonuses. The post Litigation Powerhouse Offers Up Super ‘Kool’ Bonuses For Associates appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon rejected abortion providers’ request to order a federal appeals court to send their challenge to a Texas law banning almost all abortions in the state promptly back to the friendlier confines of a federal district court in that state. The law at the center of the case, S.B.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging abortion bans that prohibit the procedure in the instance of a medical emergency. Zurawski , patients and physicians challenged the state’s abortion laws as it relates to pregnancy complications where the procedure may be necessary. In the case, State v.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Western District of Texas maintained its title as the busiest court for patent litigation in 2022, patent case filings held steady and appeals of district court patent decisions took a dip last year. patent litigation, with revealing details about the most influential law firms, courts and tactics.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the technology industry and blocked a controversial Texas law that bars large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the viewpoints they express. Alito wrote a six-page dissent arguing that the court’s intervention to block the law is premature.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 18, 2021

“What the Supreme Court Got Right (and Justice Alito Got Wrong) in the Texas ACA Decision: A slightly deeper dive into today’s California v. Texas decision rejecting the effort to turn constitutional litigation into a game of Jenga.” ” And at “Dorf on Law,” Michael C.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And Jessica Schneider and Ariane de Vogue of CNN report that “ Texas judge issues injunction against anti-abortion group on enforcing new law.” ” You can access today’s temporary injunction of the Travis County, Texas District Court at this link.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fully remote litigation position with an extensive experience in Texas state court. The post Fiduciary Litigation Opportunity appeared first on Above the Law. Apply within.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to do what the justices declined to do last month when asked by a group of Texas abortion providers: block the enforcement of a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortions performed after the sixth week of pregnancy. The Texas law, known as S.B.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This tit-for-tat directive against Texas SB8 is the latest of the bold moves Newsom has taken and responds directly to the Supreme Court decision last week. SB8, signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May, bans abortion when an ultrasound can detect a “heartbeat,” which is often before a woman even knows she is pregnant.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Share Two months ago, Texas put in place the most restrictive abortion law since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. The law, which prohibits almost all abortions in the state, has dramatically reduced access to the procedure. Nevertheless, the two Texas cases — Whole Woman’s Health v. Origins of the Texas law.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A Texas judge has issued an injunction against an anti-abortion group, Texas Right to Life, blocking it from trying to enforce the new six-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood in Texas, reports CNN. The clinics argue that the law has drastically harmed them already and will do more harm if it is not enjoined.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2022

In Dallas Texas. The post Excellent Mid-Level Litigation Associate Opportunity appeared first on Above the Law. Apply within.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2024

The Fifth Circuit has affirmed a decision that, based on Texas law, no valid profit-sharing contract exists between parties who formed a business to provide pre-settlement medical advancement loans to litigants.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The debate took place at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in light of the court’s decision earlier this month refusing to grant emergency relief to groups challenging Texas’ law that bans nearly all abortions. “If Fatima Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, testified at the hearing. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The law, known as S.B. To make it harder to challenge the law in court, particularly before it went into effect, the Texas law does not rely on government officials to enforce the ban. Texas abortion providers went to federal court in July, seeking to block it before its Sept. The case, Whole Woman’s Health v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

8, the Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state. After nearly three hours of argument by four different lawyers, the justices appeared likely to allow the case brought by a group of Texas abortion providers to go forward, even if they did not necessarily appear to agree on the rationale for that lawsuit.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] 1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2021

The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced Friday in a press release that it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will reincorporate in Texas. ” It mentions that the move to Texas will enable the nonprofit to start down a new path with more sustained growth and continued success.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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Patently O

JUNE 17, 2022

Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law; and Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law. Litigants shouldn’t get to choose the judge who decides their case. To us, that seems like an uncontroversial proposition.

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Law 360

MARCH 23, 2023

Google is pushing back against efforts from state-level enforcers to get their case accusing it of monopolizing the online display advertising market transferred out of multidistrict litigation and back to Texas, arguing a new law that enforcers cite does not apply retroactively.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

1 in a pair of cases challenging the Texas law that bans nearly all abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. The two orders suggest that the court will not directly weigh in on whether the Texas law, known as S.B. 1 that the court declined to block the law on an emergency basis. 8 took effect on Sept.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2021

In addition, SB8 would saddle violators of the law with their opponents’ attorneys fees. The result would be crushing legal expenses and duplicative lawsuits that would in effect end abortion access in Texas. More than 370 Texas lawyers, former judges, legal professors and local officials signed an open letter opposing it.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jackson that abortion providers may bring a pre-enforcement challenge in federal court as one means to test whether Texas’ s strict abortion law violates the U.S. The justices also ruled that the law (S.B. The petitioners, which include several Texas abortion providers, sought pre-enforcement review of S.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By failing to respond to a plea for them to intervene, the justices allowed a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions to go into effect early Wednesday morning. The abortion providers challenging the law say that it will bar at least 85% of abortions in the state and will likely cause many clinics to close.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Texas presents yet another installment in the decades-long conflict between state gambling regulators and Native American tribes. In 1983, responding to a lower-court decision holding that the transfer of those trust responsibilities violated the Texas Constitution, Texas terminated the trust relationship.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. Greg Abbott signed the Texas law, known as S.B.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The lawsuit alleges that Texas's restrictive anti-abortion law infringes both upon women's constitutional rights and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Supreme Court on Friday rebuffed Texas’ request to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that provided key electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden. As a result, the court rejected Texas’ lawsuit without considering the merits of the state’s case.

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