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Angela Morris is ALM Media's Texas litigation reporter. She covers lawsuits in all levels of Texas state and federal courts. Based in Austin, Morris earned journalism and government degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, and since then, has worked primarily as a reporter and writer, but also has skills in videography, photography and podcasts. Follow her on Twitter at @AMorrisReports.
May 11, 2021 | Law.com
"He repeatedly indicated that government attorneys, especially those from Washington, are lazy, useless, unintelligent, or arrogant," the Fifth Circuit said of the district judge in a recent opinion. "At times, these same sorts of comments were directed at the particular government attorneys appearing before him. What's more, he compared the government with ISIS, referring to its attorneys as 'thugs,' and alluded to the Department of Justice as unethical."
By Angela Morris
5 minute read
April 26, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that stopped Texas from using the high court's original jurisdiction to sue California over a 2016 LGBT antidiscrimination law.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
February 10, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
"It's something all of us do every day," said 394th District Judge Roy Ferguson about Zoom mishaps. "It was truly a sense of relief by everyone who watched it, that they were not lawyer cats."
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
February 9, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
"I've received more calls on that than all my criminal cases," said another attorney in the hearing with the cat-lawyer.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
February 3, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has pulled the U.S. district judge off cases at least three times, and called him out for racist and sexist comments on the bench. Yet the judge hasn't faced judicial discipline.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
January 13, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
An organizer of a disbarment petition against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said their words and actions were unprecedented and undermined democracy. But legal ethics experts don't expect the claims to go far.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
December 29, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Federal health authorities recently recommended that lawyers, judges and court staff get the COVID-19 vaccine when it opens up to more essential workers. Will states adopt the guidance, and if so, when?
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
December 16, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Houston trial lawyer Mark Lanier is leading a large group of plaintiffs attorneys for the state of Texas and nine other states that are suing Google, alleging the tech giant is violating antitrust laws in the online display advertising market.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
November 20, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Among the 25 U.S. district courts that have closed jury trials again because of the COVID-19 spike are courts in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
November 12, 2020 | National Law Journal
Attorneys from Hogan Lovells and Beck Redden were representing the parties in a jury trial that was placed on hold because multiple court participants tested positive for COVID-19.
By Angela Morris
1 minute read
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