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AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Task Force on Concert Safety has released their final report which includes recommendations and strategies to ensure the safety of concertgoers in the Lone Star State, a press release states.
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Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?
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AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the city of Denton after it refused to pull down its mask mandate in response to a notice letter from the AG’s Office.
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AUSTIN - While the California municipalities bringing climate change lawsuits against oil companies are arguing Texas courts lack jurisdiction because of a lack of contacts within the state, ExxonMobil contends their use of “lawfare” has in fact established sufficient contacts “to be held to account here.”
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Governor Abbott Pardons Joseph Edward Braithwaite.
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Governor Abbott Pardons Joe Bob Wilcoxson.
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Thompson Coburn strengthens national appellate practice with Dallas addition of Justice Douglas Lang.
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Nine months after the Great Freeze of 2021, after a full legislative session, three special sessions, resignations from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and a complete leadership turnover at the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC), the powers that be in Austin have still not learned the right lessons or taken sufficient steps to prevent a repeat of that unnecessary disaster.
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HOUSTON -- Attorney Brent Coon, founder of Brent Coon & Associates, announced that his firm has filed more than 1,500 cases on behalf of victims of the Travis Scott Astroworld Music Festival tragedy, more than doubling the total amount of cases filed by all firms against Scott and other defendants, a press release states.
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Emerging COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Issues in Texas on November 11, 2021.
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HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently determined Gov. Greg Abbott’s petition for mandamus challenging a temporary restraining order on his mask mandate executive order is now moot.
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OSHA ETS Vaccine Mandate on November 4, 2021.
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Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.
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HOUSTON – Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas denied a petition for mandamus filed by Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton in Harris County’s lawsuit challenging the governor’s ban on mask mandates, allowing Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria to keep in place a policy stating election workers must wear masks in polling places during early voting.
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The Clark Hill-ABA Connection: Deep Roots & A New Leadership Role.
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Paxton Victorious Against San Antonio ISD Unlawful Vaccine Mandate.
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AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton is applauding a recent Texas Supreme Court decision to temporarily stop enforcement of San Antonio ISD’s vaccine policy requiring that all its employees be vaccinated for COVID-19.
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HOUSTON – Many Texas politicians are up in arms over Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting vaccine mandates by any entity. However, one Houston attorney says the order isn’t exactly stopping businesses from requiring the jab.
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AUSTIN –Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to fight in court to defend Gov. Abbott’s Executive Order GA-39, which prohibits local entities from enforcing vaccine mandates.
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HOUSTON – Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee sent the Office of the Texas Secretary of State a demand for documents under the Texas Public Information Act regarding the SOS’s purported “forensic audit” of the November 2020 election in certain counties, including Harris County.
