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AUSTIN — A bill to make it easier to remove racist restrictions from real estate deeds would be named the Royce West Act under a last-minute amendment approved by the House Monday. West, D-Dallas, is lead author of Senate Bill 30, which the House approved, 146-0. It would dispense with an arduous, time-consuming and expensive process that current laws require for removing deed language that ...

Dear PAO, We are planning to start a laundry business with a certain trademark. When we conducted our personal research, it appeared that our intended trademark was still free for use. To save our operating cost, we decided to cut our legal expenses relative to the processing of our trademark. We later learned that there are two ways of acquiring ownership over a trademark, i.e., either through prior use or through registration.  Unfortunately, we got only confused by these. Hence, we seek you...

Denton City Council member Deb Armintor has proposed a relief package that would prohibit landlords from posting notices to vacate to tenants — a legal prerequisite in the eviction process — and subsequent measures designed to preempt what she feels would become a crisis here after the federal moratorium on evictions expires on Dec. 31. In a procedural move on Thursday, when she and other council members are scheduled to meet, she will ask her colleagues for a one-minute emergency pro...