An ethics rule that would bar lawyers from having sex with clients is raising controversy in Texas, one of a minority of states that don’t have such a ban.
A woman who had been named 2010 teacher of the year at Pillow Elementary School in Austin, Texas, has reportedly resigned under fire after administrators found out she had posted…
Due to a lack of credible evidence, the highest appeals court in Texas has thrown out the murder conviction of a man identified as a suspect in the crime solely…
An explosion of embarrassing news lately about claimed sexual and relationship misconduct by lawyers in positions of authority has cost two their careers.
A longtime Tennessee prosecutor has resigned, after…
Alberto Delgado was born in the United States. But he doesn’t speak English very well, because he grew up in Mexico with his mother after his parents divorced.
Still fighting what some observers considered a too-lenient “public warning” over her 2007 refusal to authorize a court clerk to accept a late execution-eve appeal, the top criminal court judge…
A Houston lawyer who tapped a deponent’s foot under the table thought he was in contact with a pillar, not a person, according to an insurance company fighting a disqualification…
Moments after being sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife, a Texas man slit his own throat this morning in…
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