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The First Court of Appeals is the oldest intermediate appellate court in Texas (along with the Fort Worth and Austin courts). The First Court of Appeals was established in 1892 and is located in the historical 1910 Courthouse in downtown Houston. The Court has appellate jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases from district and county courts ...
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But because this is a civil appeal, we follow the binding precedent of the Texas Supreme Court. See, e.g., Autry v. Dearman, 933 S.W.2d 182, 190 n.8 (Tex. App.— Houston [14th Dist.] 1996, writ denied) (“[W]e are bound to follow only United States Supreme Court and Texas Supreme Court decisions on questions of law in civil cases.”).
The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go to one of the fourteen intermediate courts of appeals, with one exception: death penalty cases. The latter are taken directly to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the court of last resort for ...
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Constitutional amendment establishes (1) three-judge courts of civil appeals to be created by legislature and (2) chief justice and two associate justices for each court who are elected to six-year...Constitutional amendment provides courts of civil appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction co-extensive with limits of their supreme judicial districts extending to all civil cases of which distri...Constitutional amendment provides "that the decision of said courts shall be conclusive on all questions of fact brought before them on appeal or error," now referred to as the Factual Conclusivity...Legislature creates Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas (effective August 15, 1892) Legislature locates Court in Galveston (Picture of old courthouse)Legislature sets term of courts of civil appeals as commencing on first Monday in October and concluding on first Monday in July of the next yearLegislature establishes minimum-amount-in-controversy requirement that trial-court judgments must exceed $100 [$2,280 in 2007 dollars] for appeals in which county courts exercised trial-de-novo app...Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of mandamus and all other writs necessary to enforce courts' jurisdictionLegislature directs Texas Supreme Court to equalize dockets of courts of civil appeals by transferring cases.
Associate Justice Frank A. Williams becomes first judge of First Court to serve on Texas Supreme Court.
First volume of official reports for courts of civil appeals is published, The Texas Civil Appeals Reports: Cases Argued and Decided in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas; publicatio...
Legislature changes term of courts of civil appeals to commence on first Monday in October and continue to succeeding first Monday in October of the next year (effective June 7, 1927).
Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of mandamus to compel judges of county courts to proceed to trial and judgmentLegislature amends 1925 Revised Statutes article 1819 to read, "The appellate jurisdiction of the Courts of Civil Appeals shall extend to all civil cases within the limits of their respective distr...Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of mandamus in specified election matters.
Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of injunction, mandamus, and prohibition to prevent enforcement of trial-court judges' orders granting injunctive relief against Railro...
Eastland Court of Civil Appeals resolves seeming conflict between 1925 Revised Statutes articles 1819 and 2249 in Stavely v. Stavely, 94 S.W.2d 545 (Tex. Civ. App.—Eastland 1936, writ dism'd) by ha...
4 days ago · For the second time in seven years, a federal court in Texas has struck down a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule aimed at expanding the scope of overtime eligibility to workers across the ...
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas at Dallas affirmed Johnson's conviction, 706 S.W.2d 120 (1986), but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed, 755 S.W.2d 92 (1988), holding that the State could not, consistent with the First Amendment, punish Johnson for burning the flag in these circumstances.
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In a 5-to-4 decision, the Court held that Johnson's burning of a flag was protected expression under the First Amendment. The Court found that Johnson's actions fell into the category of expressive conduct and had a distinctively political nature. The fact that an audience takes offense to certain ideas or expression, the Court found, does not ...
