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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-05-05

A Houston mother barred from seeing her three children because of a lifetime protective order will have her case reheard after a Texas Supreme Court ruling Friday.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-04-28

In the latest ruling highlighting the high bar on claims against police officers, the Texas Supreme Court decided a man whose vehicle was hit by a police cruiser can't sue the officer without proving he violated emergency response laws.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-04-08

Daryl Blackburn, a data analyst for the now-defunct Harris County Elections Administration Office, must pay $20,000 in restitution and complete a six-month pretrial intervention program after being accused of tampering with government records.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-02-05

Houston city officials will need to slash spending or dramatically raise revenue over the next year following a Texas Supreme Court decision on the city’s infrastructure spending.  

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-02-01

The City of Houston must allocate more money to street and drainage projects after the Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider its appeal in a longstanding legal challenge brought by two local engineers.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-01-31

The Texas Supreme Court will not review a case in which Fort Bend ISD fought a state ruling to release public records.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-01-24

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has prevailed in an ethics lawsuit over his role in challenging the 2020 presidential election results.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-01-13

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Southwest Airlines pilots' lawsuit against Boeing over the airline’s use of the global aircraft manufacturer’s defective 737 MAX, after rejecting the case in May.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2025-01-02

Two officers who crashed into drivers during two separate police chases in Austin and Houston were not acting recklessly or in bad faith, and the cities are protected by governmental immunity, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-12-05

The Texas Supreme Court will decide whether a capital murder case involving a then-16-year-old who was charged when he was 18 should go to adult criminal court or be dismissed entirely.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-12-03

A retired Texas judge who signed death row inmate Robert Roberson’s execution warrant earlier this year has recused herself from his case.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-11-22

Attorney General Ken Paxton will not have to sit for a deposition in a longstanding lawsuit filed by four former senior aides who said he improperly fired them after they reported him to the FBI, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-11-15

A Texas House of Representatives committee did not have the authority to override death row inmate Robert Roberson's scheduled execution with a subpoena, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-10-21

Over six hours on the day Robert Roberson was set to be put to death, Texas House lawmakers waged a rollercoaster legal battle to delay his execution.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-10-04

18 Houston-area THC shops were searched by police last month regarding an investigation into money laundering and illegal marijuana.

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Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-06-27

'We don't know where we stand': IVF in Texas is on shaky ground

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​dredmorbius@toot.cat
2024-06-25

After way too long, I finally used a GPT to track down the case citation for Houston Texas Central Railroad Company v. W.A. East, including an online copy of the case itself.

TL;DR: Hathi Trust for once actually comes through:

babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

Texas Supreme Court cases are recorded in West's South Western Reporter. WestLaw is famously obsessive with copyright, but all cases prior to 1928 are now in the public domain. Yay, P.D.

There's an online archive of South Western Reporter at Hathi Trust:

catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/

(Via the Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/)

The full citation for the case, which gives the volume and page number, is:

H. T.C. Ry. Co. v. East

Full title:  HOUSTON TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.A. EAST

Court:  Supreme Court of Texas

Date published: Jun 13, 1904
Citations
81 S.W. 279 (Tex. 1904)
81 S.W. 279

So we want South West Reporter, volume 81, page 279.

Which is here:

babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

(Hathi infuriatingly doesn't permit full-volume downloads, but you can download PDFs one page at a time...)

The process by which I'd done this seems interesting (IMO):

I'd turned this up using a GPT (FastGPT from Kagi), asking it what the early-20th century Texas case concerning rule of capture was, whether that case was online anywhere (reply: not really, though there are several discussions of it), and then where Texas State Supreme Court rulings were published. OCLC failed to give reasonable references, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to carry these, but the UPenn Online Books Page (Homepage: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/, a hugely useful tool I'm deciding) pointed me to Hathi.

On GPT: the ability to go through a series of questions about a topic, rather than just doing a keyword search, really is transformational. I'd been an early user of Google (1998/9), and online library catalogues for over a decade before that. Being able to inquire about topics and narrow down where to find things is tremendously useful, and I'm still wrapping my head around this as a tool.

cc: @pluralistic

#RuleOfCapture #HathiTrust #Texas #TexasSupremeCourt #FastGPT #GPT #Kagi #UPenn #OnlineBooksPage

Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-06-14

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted payments under Harris County’s pilot guaranteed income program.

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DARLENE RYAN 🇨🇦DarleneRyan
2024-06-06

Heartlessly cruel men & women on the , bought & paid for by & the ⬇️

Houston Public Mediahoustonpublicmedia
2024-05-31

The Texas Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the most significant challenge to Texas’ new abortion laws yet, ruling Friday that the medical exceptions in the law were broad enough to withstand constitutional challenge.

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