It's a best kept secret that's continuing to face a big problem: there's a shortage of court reporters in Bexar County. President of the Bexar County Court Reporters Association, Mary Scopas has ...

All Bexar County District Court Judge Christine Hortick wants to do is hear cases from start to finish. This is how the justice systems works nearly everywhere else in Texas and beyond.

The request has created a stir in the legal community in Bexar County, where the civil district courts have operated with a Presiding Court system since 1962. Under the system, when a civil case ...