Texas’ Bookban Is So Bad, Booksellers Say It Violates The Constitution
Weird priorities you've got there, Texas.
US Sues Texas For Blockading Rio Grande To Keep Out Migrants
TFW you pretend desperate families are a horde of Vikings armed with spears ... and fentanyl.
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Ethics Panel Decides It’s No Big Deal If Judge Uses Racial Slur About Defendants Appearing In His Courtroom
This really should be a bigger deal.
Clifford Chance Lassos Latham Partners As It Expands Into Texas
Yeehaw! The Magic Circle firm's new office deep in the heart of Texas.
Morning Docket: 05.26.23
* Ken Paxton on the verge of impeachment. And apparently that means it's time for a good old fashioned dumpster fire... of papers outside his office. I'm sure there's an innocent explanation. [Washington Post] * Judge loses defamation suit over being linked to QAnon. Or so the shadowy government conspiracy would have us believe. [Reuters] * Hugh Grant case against branch of Rupert Murdoch empire can proceed. It's like the Dominion case but more charming. [ABC News] * North Carolina sued over its electronic court filing system. Ah, the only corner of American technology where PACER can look like an industry leader. [Courthouse News Service] * The Pacific Legal Foundation had themselves a DAY yesterday. They won the elderly woman tax foreclosure case everyone was up in arms about and then they got the Supreme Court to gut wetlands protections. [Law360] * Of the previous 100 anti-LGBTQ+ statutes passed, half of them were this year. It's fricking May. [538]
Texas Legislature Makes Belated Discovery That AG Ken Paxton Is Raging Fireball Of Corruption
This is their shocked face.
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Celebrating The 25th Anniversary Of The Asian Pacific Interest Section And Honoring AAPI Heritage Month
“My grandma passed away at the top of last year / At the funeral drowning ’cause I couldn’t hold back tears / But after all that’s happened this past year / Part of me sees grace in the fact that she’s not here / As a grandson, this statement is a fact / No elderly should ever be victim of […]
3 Takeaways From A WDTX Trial Drone Strike
Netlist and Textron still face challenges.
Mike Levy, UT Law Alum And Texas Monthly Founder, On Luck, Relationships, And ‘Logan Roy Energy’
Levy welcomed Smith to Texas Monthly 30 years ago with the warm salutation: 'Welcome to Texas Monthly, don’t f*ck up.'
CEOs Of Pharmaceutical Companies Really Aren’t The Defenders Of Rights We Want. But We May Need Them Right Now.
Can we have a good two weeks where we don't have to rely on the benevolence of people trying to maximize profits for once?
Private Practice Lawyers: Rater Your Work With In-House Counsel
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Is Anyone Home?
Zeal in seeking a win on the venue issue can sometimes get defendants in a spot of trouble.
Morning Docket: 03.15.23
* Justice Ketanji has stood out for her questions. Her decisions have fallen in line with the others thus far. [ABA Journal] * A Texas judge could play a role in banning abortion pills nationwide: Quite a lot of intervention from the Lone Star state. [Reuters] * Like voting? You should follow this one: North Carolina's redistricting case is gonna have some spillover. [Reuters] * The "Rust" prosecutor flaked. [NYT] * Conflicts of interest are no joke in these parts. [NY Daily News]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Agrees To Apologize, Pay Millions To Former Aides
Ken Paxton agrees to a settlement over claims he fired whistleblowers in retaliation.
Promising Young Law Firm Associates Found Dead In Murder-Suicide
The pair had reportedly ended a relationship this past summer.
Texas Appeals Court Is FURIOUS That ‘Civil Procedure’ Won’t Let Them Strike Down New Jersey Laws
The hypo for your Federal Courts exam was not this stupid.