High School that Dismissed Cheerleader from Team for Private Tweets Not Liable for Violating Her Free Speech Rights
Teenagers are all over social media applications like Twitter, Instagram, and Snap Chat. They use these channels to chat, gossip, complain, flirt, and sometimes bully others. Because texting tends to be very informal and spontaneous, and because the F-word and other profanities are rife in popular culture and songs, teenage communications can be spiced with naughty words and expletives. And...Read More
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Texas Realtor Advertising Rules: What License Holders Must Know to Avoid the Bite of the TREC Watchdog
We work extensively with real estate brokers and agents in a wide variety of contexts, including real estate disputes, complaints to the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC), broker commission disputes and arbitrations, regulatory compliance, and other matters. In the course of our work, we see a lot of advertisements by real estate brokers and agents that do not comply with TREC’s detailed...Read More
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Roaming Livestock and Texas Highways
On a dark winter night on December 2015, Joshua Garcia was driving his pick-up truck on State Highway 123 in Wilson County when he collided with a 2,000-pound bull that had wandered onto the road after escaping a nearby fenced pasture. The wayward bull was killed, Joshua was injured, and his truck was totaled. Joshua sued the bull’s owner Shary Pruski, but the trial court granted summary...Read More
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