A Dallas district court judge has filed a petition for review in the Texas Supreme Court, seeking to overturn a series of lower court rulings that documents related to a defamation suit he filed, and later nonsuited, are "court records" and thus available for public view.
The Jan. 3 petition for review in Judge Carlos Cortez v. Coyt Randal (Randy) Johnston, et al. is the latest turn of events in the judge’s two-year battle to keep his own deposition and two witness statements in that case under wraps.
