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Price returned to Texas after his military service and won the seat of Texas Attorney General. [7] As Texas State Attorney General, he argued the 1946 submerged lands ownership lawsuit United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19 [8] before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1947, on behalf of the coastal states. The Supreme Court decided ...
The attorneys general of the Republic of Texas and the first four attorneys general under the 1845 state constitution were appointed by the governor. The office was made elective in 1850 by constitutional amendment. The attorney general is elected to a four-year term. In 2013, former Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he would not seek ...
The college ended its agriculture program altogether in 1957. Between 1950 and 1965, ASC conducted a major building campaign that built 18 new buildings on campus for $14.225 million. On April 27, 1959, Texas governor Price Daniel signed a bill making ASC a four-year college. After the addition of junior-level courses in fall 1959 and senior ...
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is a state agency of the U.S. state of Texas, responsible for managing lands and mineral rights properties that are owned by the state. The GLO also manages and contributes to the state's Permanent School Fund. The agency is headquartered in the Stephen F. Austin State Office Building in Downtown Austin. [1]
On March 14, 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Colony Ridge and its owner, John Harris, for "have built a sprawling community northeast of Houston on a foundation of false, misleading, and deceptive sales, marketing, and lending practices. Colony Ridge’s business model is predicated on churning land purchasers through a foreclosure ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Bexar County officials Wednesday morning over their plan to mail voter registration forms to unregistered residents en masse, asking a state District Court ...
Jeffrey Carl Mateer is an American lawyer. From 2016 to 2020, he served as First Assistant Attorney General of Texas. In September 2017, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to become a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; however, the nomination was withdrawn in December 2017.
In 1894, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and its Texas subsidiary, the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri. Hogg and his attorney general argued that the companies were engaged in rebates, price fixing, consolidation, and other tactics prohibited by the state's 1889 antitrust act. The investigation ...