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This is a list of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas. 1840 ... Secretary of State, Dallam 358 (1840). Edwards v. Peoples, Dallam ...
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:
By statute, the Texas Supreme Court has administrative control over the State Bar of Texas, an agency of the judiciary. [3] The Texas Supreme Court has the sole authority to license attorneys in Texas. [4] It also appoints the members of the Board of Law Examiners [5] which, under instructions of the Supreme Court, administers the Texas bar ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. The ruling ...
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The Chief Justice of Texas presides at the Texas Supreme Court, which is the top appellate court for civil matters in the Texas court system. The chief justice (and all the justices) are elected statewide in partisan elections. The term of the chief justice is six years. The position was created in the Texas Constitution of 1876.
(Reuters) -Monday's ruling from the Texas Supreme Court denying a woman's request for an emergency abortion shines a spotlight on the medical exceptions contained in many U.S. states' abortion bans.
Handly's Lessee v. Anthony, 18 U.S. (5 Wheat.) 374 (1820), was a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the proper boundary between the states of Indiana and Kentucky was the low-water mark on the western and northwestern bank of the Ohio River.