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On March 5, 2018, the Court agreed to hear Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania, which allowed the court to reassess the judicial merits of Williamson County. [21] In their decision issued on June 21, 2019, the Court overturned part of Williamson County related to exhausting state court actions before bringing such action to federal courts. [2]
In 1985, in Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City, the Supreme Court held that in cases claiming just compensation for private property taken by state or local governments, the owner had to demonstrate that the case was ripe for litigation by exhausting state law remedies "first." As it turned out ...
A novel based on the case, entitled Depraved Prosecution, was published in July 2012 by Kurt Johnson, a writer living in Williamson County; in the novel the fictional location of "Wiyamsun County" is the setting. [30] The Morton case is also depicted in a 2013 documentary film, An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, directed by Al Reinert. [31]
When I asked Zannie Martin, Williamson County’s director of the Juvenile Court, about the policy on the day of my son’s detention hearing, she explained that the facility needed to balance the ...
Williamson County Attorney Dee Hobbs, 49 and a Republican, is running for his fourth term as county attorney against 50-year-old Democratic challenger Amy Lyn Lefkowitz. The winner will serve a ...
A former health director has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he resigned from his job in 2021 because the Williamson County judge racially discriminated against him and that the health board did ...
In September 2022, Judge John Youngblood, a Milam County judge assigned to the case in Williamson County court, dismissed the case against Webster, ruling that "the separation-of-powers doctrine deprives this Court of subject-matter jurisdiction" because the State Bar (part of the judicial branch) would sanction the attorney general's office ...
In Akers, the court stated that "if prosecutors insist on crying the wolf of the Williams Rule they might eventually find the courts hard of hearing." Critics of the way the Williams Rule is often used by the prosecution say that trial courts fail to require the requisite showing of relevance to the current issues before allowing the Williams ...