Texas court hears arguments in appeal by woman who drowned her children
WASHINGTON (AP)— The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Texas in its effort to restore its strict voter identification law. The justices said Monday they will not review a lower court ruling that held the law was discriminatory. That court ordered changes in the law before the November...
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT OF TEXAS, AT AUSTIN NO. 3-93-295-CV IN THE MATTER OF J.H. FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 98TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. J-12,050, HONORABLE JOHN K. DIETZ, JUDGE PRESIDING PER CURIAM Appellant J.H., a juvenile, appeals from...
Texas pointed to a state Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. Doctors, though, have said the Texas law is dangerously vague, and a medical board has refused to list ...
An appeal to justice: Litigated reform of Texas prisons: By Ben M. Crouch and James W. Marquart University of Texas Press (P.O. Box 7819, Austin, Texas 787... The turmoil and prisoner violence that frequently follow court efforts to improve prison conditions have been called the "paradox ...
DALLAS — An appeals court denied Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempts to block a gun ban at the State Fair of Texas on Tuesday. The Court said it reviewed the motion and the briefing filed by both the state and fair and "denied the State's request for temporary relief and ...
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44. The Court of Appeal dismissed Mexico's appeal. 45. Madam Justice Feldman, writing for a unanimous panel, held that the appropriate standard of review for the court to apply is correctness, in the sense that the tribunal had to be correct in its determin...
Supreme Court has recently shut this door; see City of Arlington, Texas v. Federal Communications Commission, 133 S. Ct. 1863 (2013) ("the distinction between 'jurisdictional' and 'nonjurisdictional' interpretations is a mirage" because "a sep arate category of 'jurisdictional' ...
he had lived his life without the safety net he had provided for me. His biological father was a mystery to him; we don’t even know where he got the last name we used. His mother was “Sug,” a small-town Texas waitress whose serial marriages did little to keep her afloat financial...