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  2. Red wave in Texas appellate courts, two flipped in Democratic ...

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    Of Texas’ 15 appellate courts, each has a chief justice and between 3 and 13 justices that rule on cases; 83 justices serve statewide overall. Republicans swept races in five courts

  3. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v ...

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    [7] Both the District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of the Inclusive Communities Project, holding that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. [8] The Texas Department of Housing and Community then appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. [9]

  4. Texas Courts of Appeals - Wikipedia

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    The various courts of appeals occasionally but rarely hand down conflicting rulings on the same legal issue. In large part, the Texas Supreme Court (in civil cases) or Court of Criminal Appeals (in criminal cases) exist to resolve these rare conflicts and to set forth consistent legal precedent for the state's litigants.

  5. Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety - Wikipedia

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    Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from being sued ...

  6. Texas appeals court upholds block on abuse investigations ...

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    The cases are among several that are ongoing relating to the state's effort to eradicate gender-affirming care for minors, including a Texas Supreme Court case on Senate Bill 14, which lawmakers ...

  7. Pointer v. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas, 380 U.S. 400 (1965), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court involving the application of the right of to confront accusers in state court proceedings. The Sixth Amendment in the Bill of Rights states that, in criminal prosecutions , the defendant has a right "...to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have ...

  8. Column: How right-wing judges in Texas are erasing Americans ...

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    All 28 of Texas' lawsuits against the Biden administration, on the other hand, have been filed in one of "just seven divisions where local rules severely limit the number of judges to whom the ...

  9. Humberto Leal Garcia - Wikipedia

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    The administration submitted a 30-page [12] brief to the Supreme Court asking them to stay Leal's execution while Congress considered legislation relating to the right of foreign nationals on death row to contact their consulate for legal aid. On July 7, 2011, the court ruled 5–4 that Congress had had adequate time to do so, and wrote in an ...