“What are the Odds?” updated through 2025
The state bar appellate section invited me to speak in September 2025. As has become my own little Labor Day tradition, I updated my Texas Supreme Court stats and “What are the odds?”
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Briefs for today’s oral argument about mail-in voting
With the Texas appellate websites still down, I wanted to provide a blog post that collects in one place all the filings in the case being argued today in the Texas Supreme Court about mail-in voting, and, specifically, what flexibility
Orders of May 15, 2020 [updated]
With today’s orders list (PDF version), the Texas Supreme Court issued opinions in 4 argued cases and 1 case decided by per curiam without oral argument.
Update: Later on Friday, the Court issued an emergency stay in a
SCOTX resources you may want while the Court website is down
With the official Texas court websites down for the time being after a ransomware attack, you may be landing on this blog looking for information about an ongoing appeal or about one of the Texas Supreme Court’s recent opinions.
Recent
Orders of May 8, 2020
This was the first set of orders during the shutdown of the Texas court system websites. A PDF version of these orders was sent out and eventually posted to a temporary website. I’ve entered those orders into my system, so
When should we expect the cases argued in the fall to be decided?
The Court’s new schedule seems simple enough. Cases argued in one term are decided before that term formally ends on August 31. The Court now treats June 30 as a self-imposed deadline, roughly mirroring the schedule of the U.S. Supreme
October argument sitting
The Court has loosely themed this week’s argument days. Tuesday has two oil & gas cases, mixed with a certified question about the Texas fraudulent-transfer act. Wednesday offers three cases about Texas’s margins tax on business entities. Thursday has only
Second September argument sitting
Oral arguments begin for the 2020 Term
The Texas Supreme Court has front-loaded its argument calendar this year, with two weeks of arguments scheduled for September.
This first week marks the first argument sitting for Justice Busby and the first for Justice Bland since 2006, when she
SCOTX again clears its docket of argued cases
With this past week’s orders, the Texas Supreme Court finished issuing opinions in the cases that were argued during its 2018 term. All the recent opinions are collected on this blog page.
This marks four years that the