Subject: Appellate Trials

• In Austin, a Judge Rules State Had No Right to Seize FLDS Kids

  May 22, 2008

• So, The State Will Have an Integrity Unit. Which Will Do What, Exactly?

  June 5, 2008

• Pickup Games

  February 16, 1995

• Dallas' lawyer joke

  April 25, 1996

• Temper, temper

  October 2, 1997

• Buzz

  February 19, 1998

• Deathtrap

  July 9, 1998

• Dissed robes

  September 24, 1998

• Let them play golf

  July 15, 1999

• Judge shake-it-baby

  November 18, 1999

• Buzz

  No news..., Calling Justice Scalia

  January 25, 2001

• Jury of His Dears

  July 25, 2002

• All's Well

  September 19, 2002

• Best Political Moment

  September 26, 2002

• One for Us

  June 19, 2003

• Texas Mutual Says Thanks, But No Thanks, to State Oversight

  Texas’ leading workers’ comp insurer says we don’t need courts and juries watching over them. Yeah, right.

  November 13, 2008

• Pix of a Polygamist Smooch Is Worth a Thousand Icks

  May 29, 2008

• Haggling Over Who Collects Late Child Support Payments Could Leave Some Kids Without

  April 10, 2008

• Family Court Judge Sheds Light on Unfair Child Support Practices in Texas

  April 3, 2008

• Trial by Fire

  A rookie Democratic judge faces tough on-the-job training

  November 30, 2006

• Bully on the Bench

  April 12, 2007

• Undue Process

  Want to send an innocent man to prison for life? Judge Karen Greene is ready to help.

  October 5, 2006

• Train Kept on Rollin'

  Emily Dowdy's case hangs on a judge's opinion of her own performance on the bench

  April 20, 2006

• Hot Dog Bun Justice

  March 2, 2006

• Roots

  The mess at City Hall goes back to ancient times

  September 15, 2005

• Oklahoma Railroad

  Accused of killing a cop's son, Emily Dowdy learns the hard way that in Oklahoma City justice isn't blind. It works for the prosecution.

  July 21, 2005

• No Shame

  At long last, Al, have you no sense of decency?

  March 10, 2005

• It Doesn't Suck.com

  Not for a cyber-griper who won a legal victory against his corporate nemesis

  February 20, 2003

• Lost Youth

  A civil suit alleges prosecutorial misconduct in one child's death, another's incarceration

  December 26, 2002

• Corraled

  The USDA backs off its tough new meat-inspection standards. That's a good thing, beef producers say.

  September 27, 2001

• Killing machine

  It is 6:07 p.m. John Albert Burks salutes the Oakland Raiders and says goodbye to his friends. Minutes later, he is a dead man. This year's 21st execution.

  June 29, 2000

• Buzz

  Not yet begun to fight

  June 1, 2000

• Hash Over

  No Fork over; Gorman gallops

  April 27, 2000

• Bench press

  A pack of well-heeled lawyers calls for the head of mercurial Dallas Judge John Marshall

  March 9, 2000

• Good time Charlie

  The don of Dallas criminal lawyers, Charles Tessmer reshaped justice through decades of hard-fought cases and hard drink

  December 23, 1999

• Innocence Lost

  Railroaded onto death row, Kerry Max Cook endures rapes, beatings, and suicide attempts while waiting for justice

  July 22, 1999

• Observer wins Bar award

  April 30, 1998

• Buzz

  February 8, 1996