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Relationship Between Judge, DA's Office at Issue in Recusal Motion
Texas Lawyer
Monday, November 23, 2009
A criminal defendant seeks to recuse 140th District Judge Jim Bob Darnell from his case based on his allegation that Darnell is beholden to the Lubbock County District Attorney's Office for the way it handled a case involving the judge's son, Jared.
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Unit 39, Where Are You?
Texas Lawyer
Monday, November 23, 2009
U.S. District Judge Gray Miller did his best to follow his father's advice on careers he should not pursue. So he set off on a professional quest that took him around the world on a ship, through the mean streets of Houston in a police patrol car, and in front of a television camera for a children's show before he ultimately wound up on the federal bench.
A Life in the Law or Diddly Squat
Texas Lawyer
Monday, November 16, 2009
For George Gallagher, an acceptance letter he received from St. Mary's School of Law in 1979 changed the course of his life. Put more bluntly, according to Gallagher: "If I didn't get into law school, I wouldn't have done diddly squat with the rest of my life." Gallagher, now judge of the 396th District Court in Fort Worth, talks about his career and his style on the bench.
Could Commissioners' Order Allow Seizure of Judges' Hard Drives?
Texas Lawyer
Monday, November 9, 2009
An Oct. 20 Dallas County Commissioners Court order so concerned Criminal District Court No. 1 Judge Robert D. Burns III (pictured) that he wrote a letter to the commissioners asking them to rescind it. But on Nov. 3, the commissioners declined to do so. The commissioners' Oct. 20 order authorized the seizure of the hard drives on a constable's work computers as part of an ongoing investigation.
Court of Discord: Complaints Filed Over Judge Carlos Cortez's Alleged Behavior Toward Other Jurists
Texas Lawyer
Monday, November 2, 2009
A lawyer and a judge say they each have filed complaints with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct against 44th District Judge Carlos Cortez of Dallas alleging that he has engaged in abusive behavior toward some of his judicial colleagues.
Judge Recuses Himself Citing Jurist's "Unsolicited Conversations"
Texas Lawyer
Monday, November 2, 2009
On Oct. 26, Judge Carlos Cortez of Dallas County's 44th District Court voluntarily recused himself from hearing a wrongful-termination suit after Court-at-Law Judge Sally Montgomery (pictured), who is a witness in the litigation, had an "unsolicited conversation" with him regarding the case.
