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The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (in case citations, W.D. Tex.) is a federal district court. The court convenes in San Antonio with divisions in Austin, Del Rio, El Paso, Midland, Pecos, and Waco. It has jurisdiction in over 50 Trans-Pecos, Permian Basin, and Hill Country counties of the U.S. state of Texas.
By the 2000s, Austin's population growth in the intervening decades had increased the court's caseload beyond what the courthouse could support. [2] In 2002 the General Services Administration retained architects to design a new, larger courthouse complex for Austin, [ 3 ] and in 2004 the GSA purchased a parcel of land in downtown Austin to ...
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Texas.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
As of 2017, it now houses two county civil courts, a justice of the peace court, thirteen Texas district courts, two district clerks, and two probate courts, [2] though the probate courts are set to be relocated into the former federal courthouse building by 2020. [18]
In 2013 the Austin Bar Foundation asked the GSA to lease the old courthouse to hold several local legal programs, but the GSA declined, saying that it intended to "use the courthouse for judiciary-related services that were not able to fit into the new courthouse," most likely the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the local members of the New Orleans–based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ...
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; In office November 25, 1991 – December 31, 2017: Appointed by: George H. W. Bush: Preceded by: Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089: Succeeded by: Jason K. Pulliam: Personal details; Born: 1939 (age 85–86) Austin, Texas, U.S. Education: University of Texas (BA, LLB)
Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, 596 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the application of zoning restrictions on digital billboards in the city of Austin, Texas. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court ruled that the Austin regulation against off-premise digital signs was content-neutral and thus should be ...
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