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Texas Supreme Court dismisses State Bar effort to discipline AG Ken Paxton
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an attempt by the State Bar to discipline Attorney General Ken Paxton for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The Bar had moved to drop the misconduct suit after the high court ruled in favor of Paxton’s first assistant Brent Webster in a similar case in December.
Texas Supreme Court dismisses state bar ethics complaint against AG Ken Paxton
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending a nearly three-year battle over whether the state’s top legal officer should be sanctioned for conduct before the U.
Texas Supreme Court tosses state bar suit against Paxton
Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the State Bar of Texas' lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020
Paxton Avoids Texas Bar Sanctions in 2020 Election Challenge
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) won’t face discipline from the state bar for making alleged false statements in a lawsuit that sought to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
State Bar of Texas commission moves to drop ethics complaint against AG Ken Paxton
The Commission for Lawyer Discipline tells the Texas Supreme Court that a related ruling made its case against Paxton moot.
Texas Supreme Court dismisses state bar’s lawsuit against Ken Paxton for challenging 2020 presidential election
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
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Texas State Bar seeks to dismiss its lawsuit against Ken Paxton for challenging 2020 presidential election
lawyers with the bar’s Commission for Lawyer Discipline asked the Texas Supreme Court to dismiss the suit, citing the high court’s December decision to toss a separate state bar lawsuit ...
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Texas State Bar drops lawsuit over Attorney General Ken Paxton's 2020 election challenge
The State Bar of Texas' Ethics Commission sued Paxton in 2022, accusing him of making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. The bar's lawyers ...
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Texas' bar association drops lawsuit against AG Ken Paxton over 2020 election challenge
The move comes a month after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Paxton's top deputy could not be sanctioned over similar accusations. A disciplinary commission for the state bar cited that ...
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Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...
Texas Business Court Judge Sets Bar for Accepting Removed Cases
Texas’ business courts must accept cases removed from district courts so long as they aren’t older than 30 days and meet other requirements, a judge ruled Monday.