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All courts of appeals retain the discretion to recall retired justices to assist writing any backlog of opinions in the court. [citation needed] In 2023, a law was passed creating a new appellate level court with jurisdiction over appeals from the new Texas business courts and state government related litigation, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals. [8]
In Hopwood, four white plaintiffs who had been rejected from University of Texas at Austin's School of Law challenged the institution's admissions policy on equal protection grounds and prevailed. After seven years as a precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Hopwood decision was abrogated by the U.S. Supreme Court in ...
Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 593 F.2d 907 (10th Cir. 1976): Abstention to prevent duplicative litigation between state and federal courts; reversed by the Supreme Court. Thompson v. Johnson County Community College, 108 F. 3d 1388 (10th Cir. 1997): Worker privacy in bathrooms or changing rooms. United States v.
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]
The appeal will now be forwarded to the Texas Supreme Court. The Texas Supreme Court is comprised of a chief justice and eight justices. All of the justices are Republicans.
The specific rules of the legal system will dictate exactly how the appeal is officially begun. For example, the appellant might have to file the notice of appeal with the appellate court, or with the court from which the appeal is taken, or both. Some courts have samples of a notice of appeal on the court's own web site.
The Texas Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an emergency appeal from the Travis County Republican Party that sought to address a purported “severe deficiency” of GOP poll workers in Travis County.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a Texas law that would require ratings from booksellers that deal with school libraries, agreeing with a lower court that found it unconstitutional.