Oct 30th, 2008 · The Texas Supreme Court may take the unusual step of reconsidering one of its decisions. It involves a workers' compensation case. The resolution of the case has enraged the plaintiff's lawyers, defense lawyers, Republicans and Democrats.
May 30th, 2008 · The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Child Protective Services overstepped their bounds when it seized children from a ranch in Texas. The ranch is home to the polygamist sect called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrick Crimmins of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services speaks with Host Madeleine Brand about the ruling.
May 29th, 2008 · Texas' Supreme Court has ruled that dozens of children seized by state officials during an April raid of a Texas ranch must be returned to their parents. It also says their removal "was not warranted."
May 29th, 2008 · The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that polygamist sect children at the heart of an ongoing controversy in that state should be returned to parents. The more than 400 children were taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch weeks ago amid charges of underage sex at the ranch. A lower court says welfare officials were wrong to take the children from their parents.
May 22nd, 2008 · A Texas appeals court overturns a lower court ruling that placed more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch in state custody. It's unclear if state authorities will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.
Oct 3rd, 2005 · Tom Phillips, a chief justice on the Texas Supreme Court who has known Harriet Miers for 30 years, calls the Supreme Court nominee a "very bright, careful, conscientious lawyer" who "has a marvelous temperament."