What a week, huh?
When I opened an unassuming email advisory from the Court this morning, I expected the usual kind of thing you’d see on a Wednesday. Maybe a notice that a stay had been denied or an abatement
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The Court’s final set of opinions for the 2026 Term [Jun. 26, 2026]
The docket is cleared of argued cases (again)
This past week’s orders list brought the final decisions in argued cases this Term. The Court has met its self-imposed deadline to issue all of those opinions by June 30th.
There were,
More grants under the new petition rules, and two very unusual voting splits
More grants under the new petition rules
This week’s orders list brought eight more grants under the new petition rules. The Court has set these for argument in the November and December sittings.
Two very unusual voting splits
We are
“What Were the Odds? A Year of Transition at SCOTX”
I saw some of you when I spoke last week at the UT State and Federal Appeals CLE. My presentation, as usual, looked at the Court through the lens of numbers. Giving this kind of talk in June is always
New stats feature: Who has written (and who has not) for each argument sitting?
A new, grid view of the Court’s argument sittings
The tl;dr is: I’ve added a new feature to the website that lets you quickly see which Justices have written opinions for each of the Court’s argument sittings this term.
We have the first grants under the Texas Supreme Court’s new petition rules
This morning’s orders list brought the first grants under the Texas Supreme Court’s new petition rules.
My website has been tracking these new petitions (more on that below), so I’ve been watching for the first grant. My hope had been
The e-filing notices that led to a law firm’s disqualification
… a mind’s inner workings are often opaque and its contents not easily partitioned.
A disqualification case with some cautions for appellate lawyers
IN RE ADEEL ZAIDI, A.K. CHAGLA AND PRESTIGE CONSULTING D/B/A TURNAROUND MANAGEMENT GROUP, No. 24-0245
Guidance from the Texas Supreme Court about how the new petition rules will work
IOPs vs. “inferred” operating procedures
For a number of years, the Texas Supreme Court published a set of “internal operating procedures” (IOPs) on its website, with a detailed look at the internal process. The most recent update to that document
Tracking petitions under the new SCOTX rules
New petition rules at the Texas Supreme Court
The big news, really, is that the Texas Supreme Court dramatically changed its petition process in January.
Under the old system, the Court’s discretionary review proceeded in two steps. First, the parties
A Statpack for the Texas Supreme Court’s 2025 term
“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?”