At a time when political analysts say Texas is trending blue, the state’s voters overwhelmingly decided to keep the Texas Supreme Court totally Republican. With 90% of the counties reporting, all four incumbent state Supreme Court justices cruised to re-election Tuesday. In fact, all four justices won their races by larger vote margins than did their colleagues in 2018. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
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Texas Judicial Election Results
The Texas Lawbook has five journalists tonight – election night – covering the judicial appellate and trial court races and will provide details as the election results are provided.
McKinney Investor Pleads Guilty to $13M Securities Fraud
North Texas venture capitalist Patrick O. Howard pleaded guilty Tuesday via video teleconference to running a Ponzi-type scheme and committing federal securities fraud in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Texas Lawbook has details.
Pacific Drilling Files for Bankruptcy
Texas lawyers from Latham & Watkins and Jones Walker are advising the company.
State Bar Discipline: 8 Judicial Actions, 1 Disbarment, 5 Suspensions, 1 Public Reprimand
The State Bar of Texas released its monthly compendium of disciplinary actions Monday. The reprimands of eight judges include: one who revoked a probation without a proper hearing; one who withheld court records from a disabled defendant; a judge who publicly called out a victim of domestic violence; another who brandished a gun during a private argument on a public street and a judge in East Texas who attempted to recruit state law enforcement to harass construction at a solar farm next to her family’s property.
Sidley Fortifies IP Litigation Practice in Dallas with McKool Smith Duo
Yvette Ostolaza said the firm had opportunities to go into the lateral market because of recent retirements in its IP practice and one attorney who moved in-house.
Ex-US Attorney for WDTX Joins Quinn Emanuel
John Bash’s resume also includes five years in the U.S. Solicitor General’s office; a brief stint as associate counsel to President Donald Trump; and clerkships with Justices Antonin Scalia and Brett Kavanaugh.
Caldwell Cassady Scores $502.8M Jury Win Against Apple
For the second time in three months, a Texas jury has slapped Apple with a half-billion dollar verdict for patent infringement. This time, the verdict is against Apple for violating VPN on Demand technology patents owned by VirnetX on 598 million iPhones, iPads and other products sold after Sept. 2013. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
TX Minority Counsel Program: ‘Living Through History is Not Easy’
Diversity and inclusion must be personal. Making history and even just experiencing it can be difficult. Words followed up by actions on mandatory diversity by corporate general counsel equals progress and success. These were the messages that came from the Texas Minority Counsel Program’s two-day annual meeting.
The Lowdown on Straight-Ticket Voting in Texas
Straight-ticket voting is no more in Texas, but what are the implications? This article explains the history of the voting method and both parties’ attitudes toward it.