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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.
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
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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
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February 9, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Cathy Cochran, who served on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals from 2001 to 2014, was so persuasive to her fellow jurists that she often authored majority rulings, setting precedent that the court and attorneys will rely upon for years to come.
By Angela Morris
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February 8, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
"It's a topic that's going to impact appellate lawyers and litigants. We need to have a healthy discussion," said Eighth Court of Appeals Chief Justice Yvonne Rodriguez. "Let's find a way that is going to work for everybody."
By Angela Morris
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February 8, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Testimony from 21 witnesses, and photo and video evidence made a different with a Houston jury that awarded $3.24 million, said plaintiffs lawyer Randy Sorrels.
By Angela Morris
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February 4, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
"We can't do it," the chief justice said.
By Angela Morris
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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
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February 3, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Felony criminal defendants who sued 23 criminal district judges in Houston chose to dismiss the jurists as defendants so they would drop an appeal that was going to delay the litigation.
By Angela Morris
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February 2, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Justices Debra Lehrmann and Jeff Boyd both asked what the high court should do with the case if justices agreed that lawyers should not get absolute immunity for talking to journalists about lawsuits.
By Angela Morris
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February 2, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Attorneys from Houston, Austin, the Fort Worth area and other Texas cities were sanctioned for professional misconduct, according to the State Bar of Texas discipline list for February.
By Angela Morris
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