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Texas Oil and Gas Attorney Blog
Non-Operating Cotenant Owes Royalties to Lessor
By Aimee Hess
The El Paso Court of Appeals published an interesting opinion about the rights of a lessor to royalties from a non-operating co-tenant oil company. The case is Pioneer Natural Resources…
Texas Employment Lawyer
Latina and Latino Labor Leaders Who Fought for Work Protections
Hispanic Heritage Month, observed September 15 to October 15, is a reminder that many of the protections employees rely on today. They were won by organizers, many of them Hispanic…
SmallGovCon
Free Webinar! SBA Mentor-Protégé Programs, September 16, hosted by El Paso APEX Accelerators
By Shane McCall
Touted as a “game-changer” when it was first introduced in 2016, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s All Small Mentor-Protégé Program isn’t new anymore. Known now as simply the “SBA Mentor-Protégé…
FCPA Professor
Dear “Docketing Clerk” For The U.S. District Court – W.D. of Texas (El Paso)
By Mike Koehler
On July 17th, the DOJ announced an FCPA enforcement action against The Scoular Company based on alleged bribery scheme in Mexico. (See here for the prior post). The criminal information…
SmallGovCon
Webinar Announcement: Joint Ventures & Teaming, April 23, 2026 hosted by El Paso Texas APEX Accelerators
By Shane McCall
If you aren’t able to attend the April 14th webinar on joint ventures & teaming agreements and how they can be essential to winning and successfully performing federal government contracts, here’s another chance! Please join,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigrant Detention Center
NPR reports that the Trump administration is building a detention camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The project is part of an effort to increase immigrant detention space.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
TX’s Fort Bliss–Latest Detention Center
Fox News reports that Fort Bliss, an army base near El Paso, Texas, will be home to country's latest immigration detention center. The base already has the capacity to detain…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine Ulloa (forthcoming)
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine UlloaPublisher's (Penguin Publishing Group) Abstract:"From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El…
Religion Clause
Texas Supreme Court: AG May Begin Proceedings to Close Down Catholic Refugee Agency for Harboring Illegal Migrants
In Paxton v. Annunciation House, Inc., (TX Sup. Ct., May 30, 2025), the Texas Supreme Court held that a state trial court was in error in refusing to allow the state…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Amnesty International Briefing on Human Rights Violations at El Paso Immigrant Detention Facility
Amnesty International today released a new briefing exposing serious human rights violations against immigrants detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center (EPSPC), against the backdrop of the broader crackdown…