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17 Sep 2010, 2:47 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
I just rolled back into Austin this afternoon, still a little jet lagged, to find that the Todd Willingham saga at the Texas Forensic Science Commission has continued to heat up in my absence. [read post]
The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from
6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua
John L. [read post]
1 May 2012, 8:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If you want John Bradley ousted as District Attorney, you might consider helping Ms. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:53 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Austin Statesman and other news outlets today reported that the Senate has severed Williamson County DA John Bradley's nomination from other members of the Forensic Science Commission because Democrats have enough votes to block him from being considered on the floor under the Texas Senate's 2/3 rule and have told the chair of the Nominations Committee they intend to do so.It's not over, though, because the Lieutenant Governor intends to have Bradley back in for… [read post]
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from John Armour, Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford; Bernard Black, Professor of Finance and Law at Northwestern University and Professor of Finance and Law at the University of Texas at Austin; and Brian Cheffins, Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Cambridge. [read post]
31 May 2008, 6:45 am
I attended the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society's annual John Hemphill Dinner last night. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 1:50 pm by Alan Ackerman
  In a victory for landowners, John McFarland, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, noted the recent Texas Supreme Court case of Edwards Aquifer Authority v Day. [read post]
4 Apr 2025, 12:25 pm by Lawrence Solum
John Yoo (University of California at Berkeley School of Law; The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA; American Enterprise Institute) has posted Rational Non-Delegation (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Volume 47, No. 3, pp. 807-55 (2024)) on SSRN. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 9:19 pm
John Whitmire, the committee chairperson, and we were assured by the aide that our issue was appropriate to the discussion. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 6:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" They plan to follow up with future stories.Reported the Chron's John Anderson, about 800 so-called Threat Liaison Officers (TLOs) "report suspicious activity or behavior" to the Austin fusion center. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 2:02 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Morton is pictured above, center, with his parents during a 2010 visit.Post-conviction DNA testing has identified a convicted offender in the national DNA databank as the man whose DNA is mixed with the blood and hair of the murder victim on a bloody bandana recovered near the crime scene.In light of the new evidence, the Innocence Project filed legal documents today asking the trial judge to appoint a new prosecutor in the case because [Williamson County] District Attorney John… [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 7:13 am by Joanna Herzik
Education: BA, The Johns Hopkins University; MPA, LBJ School of Public Affairs; JD, University of Texas School of Law. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 8:30 am by Kara OBrien
Next up at the Securities Regulation Institute is a panel featuring Tom Cole of Sidley Austin, Frank Jimenez of ITT Corporation, John Olson of Gibson Dunn (Practice Center Contributor!) [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 8:40 am
"I would say it shouldn't be common, because the whole point of having a college atmosphere is for people to explore their beliefs, their ideas, do whatever they need to do within a group," she said.Georgetown President John DeGioia said yesterday that he only approved of the use of student informants and infiltration in rare circumstances. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 2:00 pm by Adam Faderewski
Anderson, of Burns Anderson Jury & Brenner in Austin; John C. [read post]