January 17, 2024
The Fifth Circuit sided with booksellers on Wednesday in a dispute over a Texas law that would require certain vendors to rate works sold to schools based on their references to sex, saying the booksellers are likely to succeed on their claims the law's rating system violates their First Amendment rights.
January 01, 2024
Several high-profile Texas cases will move through the courts in 2024, including Attorney General Ken Paxton's securities fraud case and a retaliation lawsuit brought by four of Paxton's former-aides-turned-whistleblowers. The first case in the Astroworld litigation is also expected to go to trial as various challenges to laws passed during the Texas legislative session make their way through courts across the Lone Star State.
November 29, 2023
A group of book vendors fending off several state agencies' attempt to overturn a judge's decision to enjoin a Texas law that would require certain booksellers to rate works based on their references to sex told the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday the statute is a "unicorn" that imposes an "impossible task" on vendors.
October 31, 2023
The state of Texas is urging the Fifth Circuit to overturn a federal judge's order temporarily enjoining a state law that would require booksellers to rate books sold to schools based on sexual references, arguing that vendors' allegations are wholly speculative.