After nearly 30 years of litigation over the financing of public schools in Texas, a state-court judge in Austin has decided that the state legislature has failed to meet its…
The city manager for a small town about 35 miles from Dallas, Texas, has apologized to Johnny Manziel for a municipal judge’s Facebook posts concerning the speeding ticket the star…
When some local lawyers in South Texas wanted to “make sure things came out OK,” they used to steer their personal injury cases to Abel Limas, the former judge testified…
A municipal judge has caused a stir by posting on his Facebook account about a star Texas A&M quarterback who was ticketed for speeding in the same town which the…
The longtime dean of Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law will be out the job in May, a decision that comes as a surprise to some members of the…
A federal appeals court has a message for U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of Texas: A remark about President Barack Obama and fried chicken does indeed have a racial component.
Hearing oral arguments last week about a Texas law that provides for “sentimental” damages for the loss of treasured objects, but not living pets, some judges on the state’s top…
Police have arrested a suspect in the beating last month of a Dallas lawyer who remains in an intensive care unit at Baylor Hospital recovering from skull fractures.
A suspended New York lawyer who has been accused of embezzling $9 million while working as an in-house counsel in Houston gave himself up weeks ago at a Rhode Island…
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