Earlier this month Chief Justice John Roberts came to Austin to deliver a keynote address at the 2007 Tex Lezar Memorial Lecture - on the 157th anniversary of Daniel Webster's famous speech in support of the 1850 Compromise on slavery, he noted, that delayed the Civil War but ultimately ruined Webster's political career.Roberts' remarks focused on the characters involved and implications of the famous Dred Scott v. [read post]

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“[C]ourts will presume a spouse who placed non-marital property in joint tenancy with the other spouse intended to make a gift to the marital estate” Berger v. [read post]