By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 26, 2022
Veteran appeals lawyer Victor Thomas left Lanier Law Firm in Houston to join Sorrels Law because of the opportunity to lead the firm's appellate team.
By Adolfo Pesquera | October 20, 2022
The alleged defamatory statements by Dickson have been occurring in the context of his organization's campaign to get city councils to enact local abortion bans via municipal ordinances.
By Emily M. McAdam | October 18, 2022
States are typically immune from suit under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. There is, however, one narrow exception to this rule.
By Marcia Coyle | October 13, 2022
Trump counsel Christopher Kise had argued that the district court order appointing the special master and the scope of his review was not appealable on an interlocutory basis.
By Colleen Murphy | October 13, 2022
Guidance issued by two federal agencies related to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County was declared "unlawful" by Texas district court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk in a case brought by the State of Texas against both agencies.
By Adolfo Pesquera | October 11, 2022
Attorneys Jay Wright and Bob Mabry are vying to become a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Beaumont after the Republican incumbent, Justice Charles Kreger, opted not to run again.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Peter Brown | October 7, 2022
Two states, Texas and Florida, enacted legislation to control social media companies' discretion in removing controversial political, medical and opinion speech. Both sets of laws were subject to immediate legal challenges and this column has followed the progress of these litigations.
By Brad Kutner | October 5, 2022
The Eleventh Circuit granted the DOJ's motion and set a mid-November deadline for briefings in the dispute.
By Kevin McGill | The Associated Press | October 4, 2022
Fifth Circuit panel members appeared skeptical of the claim that the state had no authority whatsoever to restrict church gatherings in arguments recorded as they were held Monday in Fort Worth, Texas. But they raised the question of whether Spell's church was unfairly restricted, compared with other public gathering places, such as shopping mall food courts.
By Adolfo Pesquera | October 4, 2022
"Here, precedent provided Roper with fair notice that using deadly force on an unarmed, albeit non-compliant, driver held in a chokehold in a parked car was a constitutional violation beyond debate." - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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