Summarizes the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas case Buchanan v. Batchelor, which ruled Texas’s sodomy law unconstitutional in so far as is prescribes prosecution of the private acts of ...

Examines the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Santana, which vacated its previous judgement that the standard of proof for juvenile proceedings is the statutory quantum of preponderance of the evidence and not ...

Critiques the Texas Court of Civil Appeals at San Antonio’s decision in Jones v. Getty Oil Co. In Jones, the court chose not to follow a harm/benefit balancing test in determining whether or not a surface estate was harmed ...

This article looks to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals case White v. State. In White, a co-conspirator’s out-of-court statements were used against defendant White through the co-conspirator’s exception to the hearsay ...

Critiques the decision of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals at Dallas in Berney v. State. The court in Berney held that the court does not have jurisdiction for civil commitment procedures of narcotics addicts when there ...

Examines Aberg v. First National Bank. In Aberg, Elizabeth Goodman was granted a life estate with a contingent remainder. The life estate in trust income was to terminate and disbursed the trust corpus equally upon twenty-one ...

Summarizes the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s case Blakely v. American Employer’s Insurance Co. In Blakely, an insurance company issued an automobile liability policy to Campbell, but after determining ...

Summarizes the United States Supreme Court case California v. Green. In that case, a witness had testified that the defendant Green supplied him with marijuana at a preliminary hearing but denied remembering that fact at ...

Looks to the effect of Guinn v. Acker, a Texas Court of Civil Appeals for Tyler case. The decision applied the interpretation aid of the rule of ejusdem generis, which dictated that when there is a list of particular things ...

Summarizes Rich v. Con-Stan Industries, Inc., which held that the full faith and credit clause of the United States Supreme Court requires Texas courts to enforce a final and valid judgement from a foreign state court. The ...