Dec 1, 2019 | Article, Courts, Feature, Legal Profession, Tanya Pierce
By Tanya Pierce Abstract What happens when law changes but courts and lawyers ignore the changes? On December 1, 2015, amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect. One of those amendments includes a sweeping change to Rule 37(e), dealing with...
Mar 1, 2018 | Article, Civil Procedure, Courts, Jason Boatright
By Justice Jason Boatright Abstract For 150 years, judges and legal scholars said that the Texas pleading system came from Spain. They explained that Mexico used a simple Spanish pleading system that English-speaking immigrants to Mexican Texas liked more than the...
Mar 1, 2018 | Article, Courts, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Judges, Law and Politics, Law and Society, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Legal Profession, President and Executive Department
By Elizabeth G. Thornburg Abstract Two-hundred-eighty characters may be insufficient to deliver a treatise on the judiciary, but it is more than enough to deliver criticism of the third branch of government. Today, these tweeted critiques sometimes come not from the...
