Forget your Tax Worries and Attend the Rockwall County Bar Association’s Bench Bar Conference

© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.By Sol VillasanaThis Tax Day, April 15th, the Rockwall County Bar Association and the Rockwall County Bar Foundation invite you to forget–for at least a few hours–the inevitable pain associated with the date and join them for their Annual Bench Bar Conference at the Hilton Dallas/Rockwall Lakefront Hotel on the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard just a short drive east of Dallas. The day-long Conference will bring together lawyers and judges from throughout the northeast Texas legal community.This year’s Rockwall Bench Bar Conference will feature speakers discussing a variety of topical legal issues, including Chad Baruch, well-known appellate lawyer, who will address his recent U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief concerning the limits of the First Amendment. In his presentation “F-Bombs and Hip Hop Songs: Droppin’ Law on the US Supreme Court,” Baruch, a partner with Johnston Tobey Baruch, contends that rap music, even with its sometimes lurid and aggressive language, is a form of artistic expression and, therefore, worthy of First Amendment protection. His brief contends the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit got it wrong when, in Bell v. Itawamba County School Board, it ruled against a Mississippi high school rapper, Taylor Bell,…