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Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
Raul A. Gonzalez Jr. (1966): [36] First Hispanic American male appointed as an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1984) David Wellington Chew: [37] First Asian American male to serve as a Justice (1995) and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2006)
Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006), is a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the Court ruled that only District 23 of the 2003 Texas redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act. [1] The Court refused to throw out the entire plan, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to state a sufficient claim of partisan gerrymandering.
A resident of Cypress in Harris County, Guzman is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the Texas high court for civil appeals. Another Hispanic, David Medina, was elected to the court in 2006 and served until 2012, the year he was defeated by John P. Devine in the Republican primary run-off for re-nomination to his supreme court seat.
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:
Based in the Democratic stronghold of El Paso, the court hears cases from 17 counties in far west Texas. In the 3rd Court of Appeals, four Democrat justices were elected. In one race, one ...
David Michael Medina (born July 23, 1958) [1] is a former Justice of the nine-member Texas Supreme Court.He served in the Place 4 position. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry in 2004 and subsequently elected to a full-term in 2006.
Fields previously served as a U.S. Representative for four years in the 1990s in a majority-Black seat that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional, and now he looks likely to return to ...