Supreme Scuttlebutt at the Texas Supreme Court
Dallas Federalist Society ()This was a joint presentation with Justice Willett to the Dallas Bar Association. The slides below represent my part of the presentation and exclude Justice Willett’s slides.
This part of the discussion covered:
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the implications of the Court’s new calendar (in which all opinions are issued by early summer) for other parts of the petition review process – such as grants and the scheduling of oral argument;
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my observations about how the Court’s practice has changed to fit the model set by SCOTUS, and what steps might logically be next;
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the voting patterns among Justices, including the two who vote together more than any other over the past few terms; and
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the interesting new trend of the Court affirming cases at a greater rate than the past.
