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The Texas Supreme Court : a narrative history, 1836-1986
The award-winning author of Sam Houston, Passionate Nation, and Wolf: The Lives of Jack London offers a lively narrative history of Texas’s highest court and how it helped to shape the Lone Star State during its first 150 years.
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Wolf : the lives of Jack London
Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London--adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation.
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Wolf
Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack Londonadventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation.
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The Texas Supreme Court
\"Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the country, far more enlightened on such subjects as women's rights and the protection of debtors.\" Thus James Haley begins this highly readable account of the Texas Supreme Court. The first book-length history of the Court published since 1917, it tells the story of the Texas Supreme Court from its origins in the Republic of Texas to the political and philosophical upheavals of the mid-1980s.
Using a lively narrative style rather than a legalistic approach, Haley describes the twists and turns of an evolving judiciary both empowered and constrained by its dual ties to Spanish civil law and English common law. He focuses on the personalities and judicial philosophies of those who served on the Supreme Court, as well as on the interplay between the Court's rulings and the state's unique history in such areas as slavery, women's rights, land and water rights, the rise of the railroad and oil and gas industries, Prohibition, civil rights, and consumer protection. The book is illustrated with more than fifty historical photos, many from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It concludes with a detailed chronology of milestones in the Supreme Court's history and a list, with appointment and election dates, of the more than 150 justices who have served on the Court since 1836.
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One Ranger Returns
No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger.Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border--and clamored for more.
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THE WRENCH IN THE GEARS
The Consensus Court’s decade of amicable productivity spent some of its last capital upholding the constitutionality of the Texas Railroad Commission and its rulings. Whereas a few years earlier, the Court had let stand theEddinscase, holding that the commission violated no federal prerogatives, now it held the agency equally good against a claim that it violated the state constitution’s mandate that a bill’s purpose be stated in its name.¹ In 1905, inInternational and Great Northern Railroad Company v. Railroad Commission of Texas, the Court conceded that the commission’s right “to correct abuses” was not specified in the
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THE CALVERT COURT
Late in Hickman’s tenure, two more important justices joined the Court. James Rankin Norvell, fifty-four, had the distinction of being the first nonnative to come east to Texas instead of west from the Old South. Born and raised in Colorado, he obtained his law degree from the University of Colorado before settling in the Rio Grande Valley in 1926. There the lack of legal work led him into detours, one with a title company and one with a railroad, before starting his own law firm in 1930. He had no judicial experience when Governor “Pappy” O’Daniel placed him on the
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THE FIFTIES COURT
When Alexander died, Governor Beauford Jester appointed the popular, Bible-teaching John Hickman as chief justice and filled the vacancy on the Court with prominent Houston attorney Wilmer St. John Garwood. Garwood was the scion of an important political family in Bastrop—his father had served in both the state House and Senate—and was representative of a new breed of Texas justice. Impeccably educated at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, and Harvard, Garwood and his generation of more urbane and scholarly jurists began to shift the perception of the Texas Supreme Court away from its uniquely colorful heritage. Chief
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