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Christensen v. Harris County, 529 U.S. 576 (2000), is a Supreme Court of the United States case holding that a county's policy of requiring employees to schedule time off to avoid accruing time off was not prohibited by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
In 1984, Fleming received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas and his Juris Doctor at University of Houston Law Center in 1987. [11] [12] [13] Fleming is a member of the Houston and New York State Bar Associations, the State Bar of Texas, College of the State Bar of Texas and the Law Society of Ireland.
He served as Harris County assistant district attorney under Carol Vance starting in March 1977. [3] After his predecessor, Johnny Holmes, retired, Rosenthal was elected Harris County District Attorney after facing Pat Lykos, County Attorney Michael Stafford and many others in the Republican primary. He was re-elected in 2004. [3]
In January 2020, a Harris County grand jury indicted Goines and Steven Bryant under Texas law, charging both with tampering with government documents and Goines with felony murder. [24] Bryant later pled guilty to his charges. [8] The relatives of the deceased filed the first document in a lawsuit against the municipal government in July 2019. [25]
A victim of so-called "revenge porn" in Texas has been awarded $1.2 billion after her ex-boyfriend allegedly shared what court documents call “visually intimate material" of her online and with ...
The First and the Fourteenth Courts of Appeal present a peculiarity: both have their seat at the re-purposed historic 1910 Harris County Courthouse in Houston and exercise concurrent jurisdiction over the same ten counties, the largest of which is Harris County. Parties who want to appeal a judgment or other order from a trial court in these ...
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender people from employment discrimination.
Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving a lawsuit against a sheriff's deputy brought by a motorist who was paralyzed after the officer ran his eluding vehicle off the road during a high-speed car chase. [1]