This comment is designed to chronicle and analyze the recent chain of events occurring in the Panhandle concerning private marketing of groundwater. It is a detailed discussion and application of the varied sources of data ...

Addresses how the overruling of the Mingus exception creates subject matter jurisdiction problems for district courts. Describes different approaches that courts have taken post-Dubai, when Dubai applies, and what parties ...

Discusses how Texas’s failure to explicitly adopt the Morgan doctrine can jeopardize the administrative process, reasons why state administrative decision-makers require protection under the Morgan doctrine, and what ...

Discusses the changes to sovereign immunity doctrine, so that state agencies and officials can be aware of what protection they currently have from lawsuits. Addresses the history and early evolution of the doctrine, early ...

This article provides a section-by-section description of changes to the Texas Administrative Procedure Act made in 1999. The article gives a brief analysis of the change for each section.

This article addresses State Bar of Texas Task Force’s recommendation for a new statutory definition of the practice of law. The authors examine the topic of the unauthorized practice of law and how Texas manages and ...

Discusses the Texas Administrative Procedure and Texas Register Act and its applications to administrative law. The article reviews the basic nature, functions, and purposes of agency findings of fact and assigns them place ...