Seeking to block inmates from using smuggled cell phones, Texas prison officials were planning a test later this week of a a technique to jam cell phone transmissions without affecting…
A new ramp linking a portion of Interstate 10 to a parking facility around Houston is 28 feet high. Unfortunately, a visibility easement purchased from Harris County in 2001 by…
A Texas boy, who was 8 years old at the time, of the crime testified along with another witness that Ricardo Rachell was the man who had sexually assaulted him.
Outraged by deposition testimony in a fraud suit against a Houston automobile dealership, a client of a Texas attorney arranged, with the lawyer’s help, to post a 6-minute excerpt on…
It isn’t likely to be the most lucrative of law practices. But representing animals and their owners is a growing field due in part to the satisfaction that the job…
Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht was fined $29,000 today after the Texas Ethics Commission determined he broke campaign finance laws by accepting, then failing to report what amounted to…
A public hearing is set for tomorrow to examine an allegation that Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht accepted an illegal contribution from a law firm.
A Texas couple has filed suit against their local school district in what is believed to be the first legal challenge of an increasingly popular background check system that screens…
A Texas judge has dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that had been brought by a controversial prosecutor nearing the end of his…
An unusual case in which a South Texas district attorney has obtained indictments of the vice president of the U.S., a former U.S. attorney general, two state court judges and…
An appeals court in Texas has ordered attorneys for an inmate facing the death penalty to explain why they didn’t complain sooner about a now-admitted affair between the judge and…
A strange prisoner abuse case in South Texas involving indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, two state court judges and a former federal prosecutor…
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