Jacqueline Thomsen

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Jacqueline Thomsen |Lydia Wheeler

Two weeks before he was hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit, former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone was in a Dallas conference room with some of the state’s brightest legal minds interviewing candidates to become federal judges.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Jacqueline Thomsen

Constitution’s origins taught to law studentsJudges increasingly use theory in deciding casesSitting in a seminar room at a Dallas law school, a federal judge asked a roundtable of law students, “What can you do to keep the republic?”It was the last class of the semester for the course “Originalism & the Origins of the Federal Constitution,” which focuses on what the document’s drafters intended when it was written.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jacqueline Thomsen |Seth Stern

Sitting in a seminar room at a Dallas law school, a federal judge asked a roundtable of law students, “What can you do to keep the republic?”It was the last class of the semester for the course “Originalism & the Origins of the Federal Constitution,” which focuses on what the document’s drafters intended when it was written. US District Judges Brantley Starr and Mark Pittman are among the judges who teach a version of the course at Texas law schools.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Jacqueline Thomsen

Books involved race, LGBTQ+, pubertyMajority says library collection is government speechA federal appeals court ruled that a public librarian’s decision to pull certain books off the shelves can’t be challenged under the First Amendment, a ruling that could jeopardize other cases over book restrictions in libraries.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jacqueline Thomsen |Seth Stern

A federal appeals court ruled that a public librarian’s decision to pull certain books off the shelves can’t be challenged under the First Amendment, a ruling that could jeopardize other cases over book restrictions in libraries. A divided en banc US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found Friday that parties behind the challenge couldn’t invoke a First Amendment right to receive information to challenge a library’s removal of books.