Full video of my 10/29 conversation with Chief Justice Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court.
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Health care
Texas Supreme Court to Decide if Autopsy Counts as Health Care
After a mysterious hospital death in Katy more than a decade ago, the Texas Supreme Court seeks to answer a deceptively simple legal question: Should an autopsy be considered medical care?
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Health care
State Supreme Court Will Review Tax on “Small Tobacco”
The Texas Supreme Court agreed Friday morning to review a state tax on small cigarette manufacturers, known collectively as “Small Tobacco.”
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Criminal Justice
Tarrant County Defends Right to Charge Poor Petitioners
The Texas Supreme Court scrutinized the legality of court costs imposed on indigent plaintiffs — in this case, fees the Tarrant County clerk’s office charged six poor plaintiffs pursuing divorces — during oral arguments on Wednesday.
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Criminal Justice
Indigent Court Fee Case Goes Before Supreme Court
When and how local clerks can make poor plaintiffs pay court fees to get divorced will be argued before the Texas Supreme Court Wednesday, with both sides hoping the justices provide clarity on the contentious issue.
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Public Education
State Urges Texas Supreme Court to Drop School Finance Lawsuit
“Money isn’t pixie dust” when it comes to improving public schools, lawyers for the state of Texas told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing an appeal in what has been described as the most far-reaching school finance case in state history.
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Politics
Court Rules Houston’s Anti-Discrimination Law Requires Voter OK
The Houston City Council used the wrong language when it put the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, better known as HERO, on the November election ballot, Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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Public Education
Analysis: Public Education Funding With a Judicial Assist
The Texas Supreme Court is about to hear the latest challenge to the state’s financing of public schools. Maybe they’ll throw it out, but history says otherwise: This almost always means changes in school policy and increases in taxes.
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Politics
Court to Houston: Put Antidiscrimination Ordinance on Ballot or Repeal It
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Houston City Council must repeal or put up for public vote the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, which extends protections to gay and transgender residents.
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Criminal Justice
Court’s Ban of Death Penalty Lawyer Will Stand
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled it has no authority or jurisdiction to intervene in its sister court’s ban of prominent death penalty lawyer David Dow.
