A Texas Department of Public Safety officer keeps watch on June 3, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, near a memorial outside Robb Elementary School. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP A Texas Department of Public Safety officer keeps watch on June 3, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, near a memorial […]
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When Can I Sue My Lawyer in Texas?
It is not uncommon for an attorney to execute all or part of his or her client’s wishes, which may be in breach of a fiduciary duty owed by the client to a third party. The third party can certainly sue the client for breaching fiduciary duties. But can the […]
Texas gun laws are loosened by GOP lawmakers after mass shootings
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In the past few years, Texas Republicans have been quick to consider a crackdown on gun violence after a mass shooting. They did so in 2018 after a 17-year-old entered […]
The Texas Law That Has Banks Saying They Don’t ‘Discriminate’ Against Guns
Four years ago, JPMorgan Chase joined some of the nation’s largest banks in publicly distancing itself from the firearm industry after a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead. JPMorgan’s relationships with gunmakers “have come down significantly and are pretty limited,” Marianne Lake, then the bank’s chief financial […]
Texas Human Resources Code Financial Elderly Abuse Law
The Texas Legislature recently enacted a new law that criminalizes the financial abuse of the elderly. This is in response to the increasing financial attacks on the elderly. Effective September 1, 2021, the Texas Legislature added a penal statute entitled “Financial Abuse of Elderly Individual.” Tex. Pen. Code §32.55. It […]
Texas abortion law: Here’s how the repeal of Roe v. Wade would affect it
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Abortion is still legal in Texas, up to about six weeks of pregnancy. But a draft decision in a landmark abortion rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court suggests that […]
Through new Texas A&M legal clinic, students explore implications of environmental law
Growing up in southeast Ohio, Haley Varnadoe always felt a pull to the legal field. Her hometown of Marietta felt the impact of chemical contamination documented in “Dark Waters,” the 2019 film portraying the lives of residents who contracted deadly illnesses from a nearby DuPont manufacturing facility. “I was interested […]
Analysis: Texas’ new standard of abortions doesn’t include everyone
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Texas’ return on billions in border security spending is a mystery
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Idaho Supreme Court Halts 6-Week Abortion Ban Based on Texas’ Law
The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a law modeled after one in Texas that relies on ordinary citizens to enforce a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy as a way of sidestepping challenges to its constitutionality. The court’s order prevents the law, which would allow […]