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Further investigation into this story has found that, legally, Shaker's supervision and standing at the medical examiner's office is invalid because he never took an oath of office to become Nueces County's chief medical examiner after his predecessor Dr. Ray Fernandez retired in 2020.
AUSTIN - A Houston attorney is asking the Texas Supreme Court to “condemn” the asserted “political statements” the Second Court of Appeals made in its opinion concerning ExxonMobil’s climate change case.
Courts over the past year and a half have moved with unprecedented speed into unorthodox territory, exploring ways to conduct trials, or portions of trials, via remote videoconferencing...
HOUSTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against Judge Michael Newman, justice of the Probate Court of Harris County.
On December 10, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Whole Woman’s Health et al. v. Jackson, holding that abortion providers’ pre-enforcement challenge to the Texas Heartbeat Act — S.B....