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The Court had unlimited appellate jurisdiction. [5] In the first statute establishing the district courts, Congress set $300 as the minimum amount in controversy for the appeal of a decision from the district court to the Supreme Court. [6] In 1841 the Court declared that limit unconstitutional in Morton v.
Section 4 gives freedom from religious tests at the public and private level, [4] and while never invalidated by Texas legislature or overruled by the US Supreme Court, it has been argued that it makes a religious test, by requiring officeholders to "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being" and therefore would be subject to removal if it ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized many fundamental freedoms as falling under the constitutional protection of "ordered liberty," including the freedom of association, marriage, family planning, child-rearing and education. However, the Court has also held that the Constitution protects ordered liberty and that laws made in good faith to ...
The Texas Supreme Court is the state’s highest court, or court of last resort, for civil matters in the state. It is made up of nine justices who serve in six-year terms, and three of the court ...
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas was the supreme law of Texas from 1836 to 1845. On March 2, 1836, Texas declared itself an independent republic [1] because of a lack of support in the United States for the Texas Revolution. [2] The declaration of independence was written by George Childress [3] and modeled after the United States ...
The Texas Supreme Court is the state’s highest court, or court of last resort, for civil matters in the state. It is made up of nine justices who serve in six-year terms, and three of the court ...
Since then, the Supreme Court has decided that the Constitution protects numerous other freedoms, even if they are not in the text. If the federal courts' doctrine of substantive due process did not protect them, they could nevertheless be protected in other ways; for example, other provisions of the state or federal constitutions [ 9 ] or ...
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against a woman seeking a medically indicated abortion for a fetus with a fatal diagnosis, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on the state’s ...