A Texas child custody case in which a toddler was removed from her home and placed in foster care resulted in the child’s death. Officials with the Texas Department of Family Services removed Alexandria “Alex” Hill, a two-year-old girl, from her parents’ custody in 2013 after they found that her father had smoked marijuana in […]
Texas bar exam results were released this month and Baylor leads the pack once again. Baylor University School of Law typically boasts the state’s highest pass rate, and this year was no exception. This July, a total of 1,629 graduates from 9 Texas law schools took the exam for the first time. Of those test-takers, […]
A major issue in this week’s midterm elections is immigration reform. The immigration reform issue not only affects the Southwestern states, but nearly every state in the Union. Candidates on both sides of the aisle have made immigration reform part of their talking points. While some have attempted to entice Latino voters with their stances, […]
What does tort reform mean for Texas? It means that a hospital emergency room can negligently cause an Ebola outbreak without facing medical malpractice liability. Earlier this month, Thomas Duncan visited a Dallas area hospital. He was discharged while infected with the deadly Ebola virus. He had the symptoms and the hospital knew that he […]
A man who once worked with the FBI on a bankruptcy fraud case is now suing the law enforcement agency for seizing money that was supposed to go toward child support payments. Michael O’Donnell provided federal agents with evidence that his ex-wife, Tara Kersch, was engaged in a criminal bankruptcy fraud scheme with her new […]
A Houston Chronicle report recently revealed that numerous Texas jails are still using an immigration screening program that has been criticized as unconstitutional. The program involves allowing the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Bureau to access thousands of fingerprint records. The controversial immigration screening program has also been the target […]
A report from the Texas Council on Family Violence has shown that domestic violence in Texas has been on the rise for the last few years. The report shows that fatal incidents of domestic violence in Texas rose from 102 in 2011, to 114 in 2012, to 119 in 2013. News reports have shown that […]
A young girl who was kidnapped by her mother twelve years ago over a child custody case has been rescued in Mexico. Sabrina Allen, now 17, was rescued by local authorities more than twelve years after her mother, Dara Marie Llorens, took the then-four-year-old girl to her native Mexico. Sabrina’s father, Greg Allen, had not […]