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11 published articles · Search reporting
Rights & Justice
A Collin County default judgment finds 27 consumer-protection violations, orders an initial $500,626.64 restitution deposit and restricts specified roofing practices. Whether affected homeowners have received money remains unknown.
Rights & Justice
Texas issued civil investigative demands to Hanes and Fruit of the Loom. No product-specific test results or findings of unlawful conduct have been announced.
Rights & Justice
Judge Kathleen Cardone’s preliminary injunction stays three federal waivers and requires compliance with applicable laws for covered work throughout the Big Bend Sector.
Texas Law & Rights Education
Religion, speech, press, peaceful assembly and petition: what the First Amendment protects, how it applies in Texas and why government action matters.
Elections & Public Trust
Texas prohibits nearly all abortions but retains defined medical exceptions. Abbott signed legislation clarifying those exceptions while maintaining restrictions on abortion assistance and abortion-inducing drugs. Hinojosa wants reproductive rights restored. Dixon distinguishes his personal opposition to abortion from the use of government power.
Rural Texas
A livestock owner’s responsibilities can depend on an election held generations ago, the animal involved and the road beside the property. Texans may need to examine their own county’s records to determine which restrictions apply.
Rights & Justice
Texas requires people with reasonable cause to report suspected child abuse, but Family Code §261.110 protects a narrower class of employees. Justice Lehrmann urged lawmakers to consider the gap.
Rights & Justice
The court reversed recognition of a Pakistani divorce because notice was constitutionally inadequate. The ruling is case-specific and awards neither party any property.
Rights & Justice
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Melissa Lucio post-conviction relief. Four judges dissented; no new execution date was set.
Public Money & Accountability
The court has set a December 31, 2029 deadline. TPR follows the funding, contracts, construction and six-month reporting requirements.
Rights & Justice
The Fifth Circuit revived part of Nathan Crawford’s Title VII retaliation case against West Texas A&M University, but did not find the university liable.