Civil SocietyJudicialTexas Supreme Court Takes Up Abortion Funds’ Defamation Suits Against Pro-Life Activist
Mark Lee Dickson's social media posts and the ordinances he championed in several Texas cities have both called abortion funds "criminal."
Mark Lee Dickson's social media posts and the ordinances he championed in several Texas cities have both called abortion funds "criminal."
The state’s highest civil court offered clarification of the Texas ban on officials soliciting unrequested mail ballot applications.
"Denying review will leave significant constitutional issues undetermined and subject to assumption," Justice Devine wrote in his dissent.
The court decided to preserve the order that stops DFPS from investigating abuse in the family that sued, a decision that split the justices.
The governor and lieutenant governor asked the court to consider an argument that the Whistleblower Act does not apply to elected officials.
The court split on whether citizens showed enough proof of religious discrimination to waive governmental immunity under the new law.
“The endpoint that you're both seeking seems to be the same,” Justice Brett Busby told counsel for the abortion providers.
The North Texas Regional Transportation Council revised its policy about the high-speed corridor between Dallas and Fort Worth to focus solely on high-speed rail, and not hyperloop technology.
After an unusually speedy trial, a jury decided that because a candidate’s spouse had witnessed signatures while the candidate signed a related affidavit, some signatures were “fraud.”
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision will let the Fifth Circuit of Appeals have the Supreme Court of Texas weigh in on the case.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to certify key questions in the lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Texas.
The docket equalization process moved the case from the left-leaning Third Court of Appeals to the right-leaning Seventh Court of Appeals.