Mary Alice Robbins

June 11, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

With little comment on June 5, the state's Sunset Advisory Commission (SAC) unanimously approved its recommendations to the Texas Legislature for changes in the state agency responsible for disciplining judges. One of the SAC's recommendations addresses its staff's ability to review the judicial conduct commission, which, according to the sunset staff's March 8 report, "operates largely behind closed doors to protect the confidentiality of the judges it oversees."

By Mary Alice Robbins

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August 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

Former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay has withdrawn from the race for the 22nd Congressional District seat.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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December 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

A San Antonio, Texas, jury has convicted solo Mary S. Roberts on five counts of theft stemming from allegations that she helped her lawyer-husband appropriate $155,000 from four men with whom she had affairs in 2001. The jury returned its verdict Dec. 10 after a weeklong trial. Judge Sid Harle of the 226th District Court scheduled Mary Roberts' sentencing for Feb.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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February 09, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

On a 39-1 vote Jan. 29, the State Bar of Texas board of directors recommended that lawyers not be required to disclose whether they have professional liability insurance unless a client or potential client requests such information. When the State Bar Board voted on the disclosure issue, Bill Ogden (pictured) cast the only vote in favor of recommending a disclosure rule.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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June 25, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott could decide whether the Sunset Advisory Commission staff, when conducting a sunset review, has a right to attend closed meetings and to have access to certain documents when the State Commission on Judicial Conduct considers complaints against judges. State Rep. Dennis Bonnen, the SAC's chairman, asked Abbott to address two questions.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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February 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? An Oxford real estate couple will get a new hearing about penalties imposed by the North Central Mississippi Board of Realtors.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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June 16, 2003 | National Law Journal

Dallas-The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that the fact that a trial judge previously allowed a witness to testify on particular scientific procedures doesn't make that witness's testimony scientifically reliable in another case.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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June 18, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Three concurrent five-year prison sentences boil down to less than six months behind bars for Ted Roberts, who was convicted of theft-related charges for threatening litigation to extract money from two men who had sexual relations with his then-wife

By Mary Alice Robbins

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May 09, 2005 | National Law Journal

Investors' allegations that a technology company and its officers should have known that a multimillion-dollar deal it touted in two press releases wouldn't materialize can be the basis of securities fraud claims, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held recently.

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January 23, 2002 | Law.com

Thanks to Texas Supreme Court Justice Deborah Hankinson's efforts, anyone wanting to see what's being argued in cases accepted for review by the court will soon find the briefs just a mouse click away. The justices approved a project to make available on the court's Web site all petitioners' briefs on the merits, respondents' briefs, petitioners' reply briefs and amicus briefs granted review by the court from Jan. 1 forward.

By Mary Alice Robbins

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