The author notes that even if the Texas Supreme Court adopted the legal arguments of the producers in oil and gas lease disputes, its decision has injected an unprecedented uncertainty into Texas oil and gas jurisprudence as well as to the various players in the oil and gas industry. A ...
Wagner & BrownLtd. v. SheppardLadd Petroleum Corp. v. Eagle Oil and Gas Cocross conveyancefee simple determinablepossibility of reverterHitzelberger v. Samedan Oil CorpAccording to the Texas Supreme Court, a lessor's interest remains pooled even after her lease terminates. The Court's ...
Texas is one of the states that follows a "Winner takes most" method. The state's Republican party put its own twist on it this year. The majority of the GOP's 161 delegates will vote for the candidate who wins the state primary. And 25% will vote for the candidate who wins the Re...
Although no date has been set for arguments, the case known as Free Speech Coalition v. Paxtoninvolves a Texas lawthat requires pornographic websites to verify the ages of their visitors. The dispute began with the enactment of Texas House Bill 1181 in June 2023, which seeks to prevent minor...
What is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice? What is appellate jurisdiction? What's the highest ranking law enforcement officer? Who guards the Secretary of Defense? What is the purpose of federal district courts? How many police are in the Department of Justice?
When the courtdeclined last Julyto settle a major First Amendment dispute over laws in Texas and Florida intended to protect conservative views online, Barrett agreed with that outcome butwrote separatelyto stress her belief that earlier decisions by the court make clear that “foreign persons and ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the value of jury diversity for decades, even if the ideal in practice has often been elusive. In the 1940 decision Smith vs. Texas, the high court ruled unanimously that the Constitution prohibits racial discrimination in the selection of grand juries, ...
Pointing to social media cases the court decided last year that dealt with the content hosted on platforms, Sotomayor said that “TikTok engages in expressive activity by ‘compiling and curating’ material on its platform.” In those cases, which dealt with laws enacted by Florida and Texas tha...
The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments in a similar case in November, and this month it denied a woman's request for an immediate abortion, finding that her life was not in danger, so she did qualify under the exceptions in state law. The U.S. Supreme Court has ...
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts.