Subject: Greg Abbott

• House of Cards

  June 29, 2006

• Don't Mess with Texas' A.G.

  June 6, 2006

• The Pyramid Crumbles

  June 1, 2006

• Whatcha Hidin', Jim Foster?

  August 15, 2007

• Dallas County Judge Jim Foster's Motto: "Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity!" But Thoreau He Ain't.

  October 12, 2007

• DART Sure is Working Hard to Keep That Missing Billion Dollars Missing

  December 21, 2007

• A BounceBack for Mannatech? Um, OK?

  April 3, 2008

• Strong Arm of the Law

  April 18, 2008

• Dallas Sues Texas AG Abbott Over An Observer Open Records Request

  August 5, 2008

• Mayor Tom, City Council to Take on "Renegade Towing Companies"

  October 16, 2008

• Just Because, Texas Watchdog Sifts Though AG's Open Records Opinions

  Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests generated from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including one from someone wanting to peek at info concerning the Dallas Police Department's Chief's Ethics Awards for Police Kids (dunno...), another concernin

  November 26, 2008

• Dallas ISD to Learn Some Interesting Legal Lessons Come January's End

  DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger End of January's shaping up to be busy, busy, busy for the Dallas Independent School District. Says school board trustee Carla Ranger on her blog this a.m., Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has set a January 19 deadline for the DISD, the Texas Education Agency and "other interested parties" to submit briefs pro or con the school board's decision to extend its term limits from three years to four. Ranger -- vehemently opposed to the extension of term li

  December 22, 2008

• So, No One Else Is Worked Up About DISD Board's Vote to Extend Term Limits? OK, Then.

  Yesterday was the deadline for "interested parties" to send to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas briefs concerning the Dallas Independent School District board of trustee's vote to extend their term limits from three to four years. Carla Ranger, of course, is the only trustee against the extension, branding the board's actions as illegal on numerous occasions and "a danger to democratic rule" in November. On December 3, Robert Scott, the state's Commissioner of Education, asked Attorne

  January 20, 2009

• Cocaine Blues: Sorry, Texas, But You Will No Longer Be Able to Buy This Stimulating Drink.

  Out of the Dallas County's 44th Judicial District Court comes this swig o' news, courtesy the Texas Attorney General's Office: Never again will you find Cocaine on your local soft-drink shelves. Greg Abbott and his staff, including Dallas-based ADA Joyce Iliya of the Consumer Protection and Public Health Division, has had the maker of the so-called "energy supplement" in court for a good long while, but today they announced they got what they've wanted all along: a permanent injunction that mean

  March 23, 2009

• Does the Texas Attorney General Trust the City's Treatment of W.W. Samuell Trust Fund?

  Courtesy Friends of the FarmAn aerial view of the Samuell Farm, donated to the city nearly 70 years agoOn Wednesday, the Dallas city council will meet behind closed doors to discuss a host of subjects -- among them, pending lawsuits involving the city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' floodway report. On the briefing agenda, you will also find an item that has been making cameo appearances in front of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board since September:Legal issues regarding the W. W. Samue

  March 31, 2009

• City, Texas AG's Office Close to an Agreement Concerning W.W. Samuell Land, Trust Fund

  View Larger MapOn Wednesday, the Dallas City Council is expected to get a look at the Texas Attorney General's Office's findings concerning its yearlong look into how the city manages the W. W. Samuell Permanent Foundation, the Samuell Trust Fund and the properties willed to the city by the physician and philanthropist upon his death in 1937. So says First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers, who today tells Unfair Park that several Dallas city attorneys are going through a rough draft of the a

  April 6, 2009

• Texas AG Tells Cali Women to Take Their Fuel Magnets and Blow 'Em Out Their Gas Tank

  Three years ago, we ran a piece in the paper version of Unfair Park about a scam called BioPerformance Fuel -- otherwise known as mothballs you were supposed to drop into your gas tank to rev up mileage per gallon. The Texas Attorney General didn't take kindly to that. Which didn't stop two California women -- Wendy Diaz and Hilda Mejia -- from buying up air time on Dallas and Houston Spanish-language television to sell their own so-called "cheap gas" product called the MPG Device, which runs $1

  April 7, 2009

• Texas Attorney General, Dallas County Constables Round Up Deadbeat Parents

  The Texas Attorney General's Office sends word this morning that 22 Dallas parents who've been court-ordered to pony up child support were arrested by Dallas County constables -- and it was the very definition of a "rude awakening," as the round-up kicked off at 5:30 in the a.m. Says Attorney General Greg Abbott, "Parents have a moral and legal obligation to support their children. By collecting child support, we are ensuring young Texans have the resources they need to grow healthy and strong.

  April 9, 2009

• 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

• Paper Chase

  A former INS agent goes into business to smoke out fake documents

  January 18, 2007

• Running on Fumes

  You've got to have balls to sell BioPerformance's hot product--mothballs

  May 25, 2006

• The Mayor of Boxville

  Laura Miller to homeless: Get out of downtown. Homeless to Laura Miller: We've got our own mayor.

  March 23, 2006

• Oh-Five Alive

  December 22, 2005

• Bah Hum-Buzz

  Buzz gets his jollies keeping tabs on 2005's naughty and nice guys. OK, mostly naughty.

  December 15, 2005

• Not so public

  Don't read over a fibbie's shoulder

  September 15, 2005

• Our Pal

  We'll never tell, despite the Supreme Court

  June 30, 2005

• Tax Dollars at Work

  Hey, armed robbers need bullets, too!

  May 26, 2005

• Fatal Phone Tree

  Just try calling the Dallas County jail for info

  April 21, 2005

• Passing the Plate

  Proposed new license tags weigh in on the abortion debate

  April 24, 2003

• Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

  April 30, 2009

• DISD Trustee Carla Ranger Writes of Texas AG's Opinion: "Voting Rights Have Been Sacrificed on the Alter of Political Power."

  Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott"Bummer." That's how Dallas Independent School District board trustee Edwin Flores initially responded yesterday when Unfair Park asked for comment concerning the Texas Attorney General's opinion yesterday that the board "was not authorized to change the length of its members' terms of office" from three to four years last November. Then he said some other stuff, like how maybe there might have to be a special election, but, well, maybe someone will have to sue

  May 1, 2009

• Fight Over Child Support and DNA Testing in Dallas County Court Leads to a Whistleblower Suit Against Attorney General's Office

  Mark GrahamJudge David HanschenCourthouse News this morning highlights the story of Ginger Weatherspoon, a former assistant attorney general in Greg Abbott's office who claims she was fired after refusing to lie under oath about 254th District Judge David Hanschen. Weatherspoon, who worked from July 2006 through February '08 in the the Office of the Attorney General's child support division, has filed a nine-page whistleblower suit in Dallas County District Court in which she claims she was fire

  May 20, 2009

• Lawyer Talks About Why She Brought Whistleblower Suit Against AG's Office

  Late yesterday, we finally caught up with Ginger Weatherspoon, the former assistant attorney general who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the Office of the Attorney General alleging that she was fired for reporting that supervisors confined her in a room against her will and attempted to coerce perjured testimony from her accusing 254th District Judge David Hanschen of judicial misconduct. The dispute stems from a longstanding disagreement between Hanschen and the OAG concerning the judge

  May 21, 2009

• Down in Waco Last Week, Creationists and Texas AG's Office Played a Little Catch-Up

  ​Couldn't help myself -- just had to get on PACER for a status update on the Institute for Creation Research's lawsuit against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. No doubt you recall the reason for the litigation filed in April in Dallas federal court: The Royal Lane-based ICR claims the THECB violated its constitutional rights when it refused to grant the its request to dole out master's degrees in science, to which the THECB's responded with its own no-we-dint. Turns out, there's

  August 19, 2009

• City Misses Samuell Trust Reports Deadlines; Texas AG Threatens Dallas With Legal Action

  Once a popular hangout at the Samuell Farm, the Pavillion is a rotting, open-door shell of its former self.​Long story short: Since March 2008, the Texas Attorney General's Office has been investigating precisely how well the city of Dallas is taking care of the park properties and money left to the city by physician and philanthropist W.W. Samuell. In March of '09, we first caught wind of the specifics of the investigation, which included a long look-see at the much-fought-over Samuell Farm -

  August 28, 2009

• "This is Not About Gay and Lesbian Marriage."

  ​As you're no doubt aware, on Thursday, Judge Tena Callahan of Dallas County's 302nd Family District Court ruled that two men married in Massachusetts in 2006 could indeed get divorced in Dallas. To which Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott responded, Whoawhoawhoa: "The laws and constitution of the State of Texas define marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman. Today's ruling purports to strike down that constitutional definition -- despite the fact that it was recently adopte

  October 5, 2009