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James A. Baker (March 30, 1931 – June 22, 2008) was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from September 1, 1995 to August 31, 2002. He was born in Evansville, Indiana, but moved to Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from Highland Park High School.
James H. Denison (March 3, 1812 – February 6, 1873) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from January 1870 to July 1870.. Little is known of Denison, who was "appointed an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court by military authority during the turbulent Reconstruction era.
In 2010, like the Federal Estate Tax, the generation-skipping transfer tax was briefly repealed. In that year, the GST tax rate was effectively zero. [9] However, the law that created increased exemptions and the ultimate repeal of the GST tax expired on December 31, 2010. [10] In 2016, the exemption was $5.45 million per person.
The Court had unlimited appellate jurisdiction. [5] In the first statute establishing the district courts, Congress set $300 as the minimum amount in controversy for the appeal of a decision from the district court to the Supreme Court. [6] In 1841 the Court declared that limit unconstitutional in Morton v.
The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for civil matters (including juvenile delinquency cases, which are categorized as civil under the Texas Family Code) in the U.S. state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , is the court of last resort in criminal matters.
Thomas Royal Phillips (born October 23, 1949) is an attorney with the Baker Botts firm in Austin, Texas, who was from 1988 to 2004 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. With nearly seventeen years of service, Phillips is the third-longest tenured Chief Justice in Texas history.
Texas Monthly v. Bullock, 489 U.S. 1 (1989), [1] was a case brought before the US Supreme Court in November 1988. The case (initiated by the publishers of Texas Monthly, a well-known general-interest magazine in Texas) was to test the legality of a Texas statute that exempted religious publications from paying state sales tax.
David Michael Medina (born July 23, 1958) [1] is a former Justice of the nine-member Texas Supreme Court. He served in the Place 4 position. He served in the Place 4 position. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry in 2004 and subsequently elected to a full-term in 2006.