texas-constitution

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25-242 City of Houston, Texas v. The Commons of Lake Houston, Ltd. Texas 2025-09-02 Denied Response Waived federal-preemption flood-management local-government-regulations national-flood-insurance-program property-takings texas-constitution Whether federal laws establishing and implementing the NFIP, when operating as intended, conflict with and thus preempt Article I, Section 17 of the T…
23-6126 Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. Texas 2023-11-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigant texas-constitution Can the State of Texas through its judiciary ignore the state's own legislative intent, the Texas Bill of Rights, the Federal Constitution and the due…
23-5900 Gus Massey, Jr. v. El Paso City Attorney's Office Texas 2023-10-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction justice-courts procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing texas-constitution texas-tort-claims-act tort-claims-act Whether Texas 'Justice Courts' should be submitted to the rules, precedents, and guidelines 'Outside of it's Texas Statutory Guidelines
23-375 Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection
22-7542 Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas Texas 2023-05-12 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony as evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo…
22-7199 William Paul Burch v. Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc. Texas 2023-04-04 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court community-property federal-court-jurisdiction lien lien-extinguishment standing standing-issue summary-judgment texas-constitution Whether the lack of a signature resulting in a legally voided lien also means that the petitioner does not have standing in a community property state
22-521 Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 and Texas Family Code § 6.204 violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendm…
21-6799 Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict accordance with the Texas Const…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief base…
19-789 Maghreb Petroleum Exploration, S.A., et al. v. John Paul DeJoria Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retroactivity-provisions civil-rights constitutional-law de-novo-review due-process erie-doctrine federal-constitution foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgment judicial-review retroactive-application retroactive-legislation retroactivity texas-constitution texas-law texas-legislature uniform-foreign-country-money-judgments-recognitio Whether the retroactive application of the 2017 Texas Act violates the anti-retroactivity provisions of the Federal and the Texas Constitutions?
19-6911 Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when its distincti…
19-6743 Kenneth Dewayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection plea-change right-to-jury right-to-trial sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution trial-by-jury venire-panel Was Nelson entitled to a new venire panel after changing his pleas from guilty to not guilty?
19-5409 Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search Whether the actions of Nawis County Sheriff's Department violate the constitutional and statutory rights of petitioner Brady A. Daniel under the Fourt…
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f…