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Of Texas’ 15 appellate courts, each has a chief justice and between 3 and 13 justices that rule on cases; 83 justices serve statewide overall. Republicans swept races in five courts.
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
Therefore, the law that exists at the time of the appeal might be different from the law that existed at the time of the events that are in controversy under civil or criminal law in the case at hand. A court of appeals applies the law as it exists at the time of the appeal; otherwise, it would be handing down decisions that would be instantly ...
The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact (such as whether a defendant committed a particular act), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts (such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue).
A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a Texas law that would require ratings from booksellers that deal with school libraries, agreeing with a lower court that found it unconstitutional.
A federal appeals court Tuesday night ordered that a contentious new Texas immigration law be paused just hours after the Supreme Court said it could go into effect.. A three-judge panel of the ...
Texas, district court judge David Alan Ezra ruled that the bill violated the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, a conflict of laws clause. [3] On March 19, the Supreme Court ruled that the law could go into effect while the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit considers the district court's judgment. Hours later, the appellate court put ...
A Texas appellate court ruled in favor of state Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez as she prepares to challenge state Rep. Art Fierro for District 79.