33rd / 424th District Courts

Click here for links to article where Texas Supreme Court is soliciting public comment by September 15 on a State Bar of Texas proposal to change lawyer disciplinary rules on dividing attorney’s fees when a case is referred from one attorney to another. This may be of wide-spread interest to general practitioners who make referrals to specialists.

Brown v. Board of Educ., 349 U.S. 294; 75 S. Ct. 753; 99 L. Ed. 1083; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 734 (Lexis Retrieval) is 50 years old now. It had an immediate impace in my alma mater of Big Spring -- the first school in Texas to desegregate after Brown, when the hispanic community sued the school board et al to stop funding for the integrated school in McKinney v. Blankenship, 154 Tex. 632 (1955); 282 S.W.2d 691; 1955 Tex. LEXIS 556. Lexis Retrieval). The school district was represented by Guilford L. Jones, Jr. and the lead attorney for the State was John Ben Shepperd. The school board whom my father represented was merely trying to comply with the Brown decision when they were stymied. The nominal plaintiffs were some of the pillars of the community but the "group organization of Dallas" mentioned in the syllabus had a constituency to represent.

the handcuffs, then what do you do. Crowded docket, needed the defendant who was in custody up to the bench. Suddenly the bailiff's key would not unlock the ankle chains. Whole courtroom gazing on while we waited. So much for efficiency.

Just had to recess a hearing on Request to Adjudicate in a 1st deg. felony child sex offender case for the SECOND time due to lack of time. The afternoon docket has a Revocation hearing on a case that has previously been reset due to a number of reasons with witnesses from a long way off so did not feel I could impinge on that case. And it can't be reached until I dispose of about 20 pretrials on new cases. And this is all in San Saba -- the smallest county!