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From Castro v. Doe, decided Monday by Judge Mark Pittman (N.D. Tex.): John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit on June 16, 2023, alleging that former President Donald Trump, among others, conspired to publish defamatory, verifiably false statements about him on his Wikipedia page. These supposedly false statements include the notion…

Donald Trump isn't the only far-right character the Supreme Court could bless with dictatorial powers

SpaceX nears acquisition of public land in Texas through a land-swapping deal despite opposition, aiming to enhance rocket-launch capabilities near Boca Ch...

Biden arrived in Brownsville, Tex., where he met with federal Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement officials. In contrast, Trump's visit to another city along the U.S.-Mexico border portrayed a different tone. He met with Border Patrol officials and the Texas National Guard, walking by a wall of razor…

The district court just dismissed certain procedural objections to them, though it wasn't asked to consider the substantive arguments.

From a decision last week by Judge Robert Pitman in DL v. JS (W.D. Tex.): Plaintiff dated ES from September 2021 to January 2022 when they were both in high school. On December 18, 2021, Plaintiff and ES were having intercourse when Plaintiff removed his condom without ES's knowledge. ES,…

Like Trump, the ridiculously corrupt politician talks smack on social media, but won't testify in his own defense

The Texas nonconsensual pornography statute (chapter 98B of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code) provides: A defendant is liable … to a person depicted in intimate visual material for damages arising from the disclosure of the material if: (1) the defendant discloses the intimate visual material without the effective…

Castell was once Bettina, Texas, a Utopian community named for a German author and activist who championed the oppressed underclasses.

Long before Judges Kacsmaryk and Tipton, there was Judge William Wayne Justice.

Cooperative subjects, an unwanted text message, and hunting in a national forest.