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Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...
The Harris County Commissioners closed the poor farm in August 1958. [42] In 2014, no more burials were allowed to occur at the Oates Road facility due to overcapacity. [43] By 2013 the county was building a second potter's field due to overcapacity at the first. [42] Harris County Eastgate Cemetery had started operations in 2014. [43]
Harris County District Courts expand to address growing caseload
Districts map. There are fourteen appellate districts each of which encompasses multiple counties and is presided over by a Texas Court of Appeals denominated by number: [19] The counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, and Wood are in the jurisdictions of both the Sixth and Twelfth Courts, while Hunt County is in the jurisdiction of both the Fifth and Sixth Courts.
As of 2024 the Harris County jail facilities together have a capacity for 9,575 inmates; at time they have held over 12,000. Due to a state-mandated staffing ratio, the HCSO had to ship inmates to other jails, including some in Louisiana; in June 2010 1,600 Harris County inmates were serving time at other jails. By January 2012 the Harris ...
The oldest continuous site still inhabited by a county courthouse is in Liberty County, where its courthouse has stood—although rebuilt—since 1831. [ 15 ] In 1971 and 1972, two Texas Courthouse Acts were passed, which require the county to notify the Texas Historical Commission (THC) of any plans to remodel or destroy historic courthouses ...
The Texas Supreme Court sided with Harris County, ruling that it could count the ballots cast during the additional hour of voting. [ 18 ] Menefee has used the Harris County Attorney's Office to file a number of high-profile environmental lawsuits, including against Union Pacific in connection with creosote-related contamination in Houston's ...
Justin Ross Harris, whose murder conviction for the 2014 hot-car death of his 22-month-old son in Georgia was overturned by the state’s Supreme Court in 2022 has been released from prison ...