When Microsoft attorneys allegedly accused a criminal defense attorney of possessing child pornography he received from prosecutors, he filed a grievance with the State Bar of Texas. The case was dismissed,
The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 challenge to Biden's victory.
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
The State Bar of Texas will not mover forward with it's case against Attorney General Ken Paxton after the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the assistant attorney general in a similar case last month.
The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.
Paxton’s win was unsurprising after the state’s top court sided with his deputy in a similar lawsuit last month.
The Commission for Lawyer Discipline tells the Texas Supreme Court that a related ruling made its case against Paxton moot.
The proposal failed last session after protests and criticism that it was discriminatory. Any ban would almost certainly be challenged in court.
(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) The State Bar of Texas on Wednesday moved to drop its lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 ...
A federal judge has set a July trial date over the legality of Senate Bill 4, a 2023 Texas law that gave the state a role in arresting and deporting undocumented migrants. U.S. District Judge David Ezra set the bench trial to begin July 8 in Austin and asked lawyers for both sides to estimate how much time they needed to present their cases.
The chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court urged the state legislature to raise salaries for judges across the state.
Sen. Joan Huffman has filed a bill that proposes to raise the state's base salary for judges from $140,000 to $161,000 — a raise of $21,000 or 15%.