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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( December 2013 ) This is a list of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas .
The Court has the last word in attorney disciplinary proceedings brought by the Commission for Lawyer Discipline, a committee of the State Bar of Texas, but rarely exercises discretionary review in such cases. The Supreme Court accepts fewer than 100 cases per year to be decided on the merits.
The first session in which the Texas Supreme Court met was the January 1840 session, in Austin. [43] The Court consisted of Chief Justice Rusk, and District Judges Shelby, W.J. Jones, Mills, and Hemphill. The clerk was W. Fairfax Gray. [44] The court disposed of 49 cases on its docket, but issued only 18 opinions. [45]
The associate justices were the judges of the eight district courts of Texas. The district judges, whose first session was January 13, 1840, served with the chief justice as associate justices from January 13, 1840 to December 29, 1845, when Texas was admitted into the United States:
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Justices of the Republic of Texas Supreme Court (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Justices of the Texas Supreme Court" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total.
Based in the Democratic stronghold of El Paso, the court hears cases from 17 counties in far west Texas. In the 3rd Court of Appeals, four Democrat justices were elected. In one race, one ...
The panel of judges that decided on Cox’s case leans conservative. ... said that part of what the Texas Supreme Court judges had to consider was whether they wanted “to be in the business of ...