Law coverage in the Lone Star State follows court decisions, constitutional challenges, legislation and the legal dimensions of state policy from trial courts through the appellate system. Reporting here reaches both the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals.
The federal government has intervened in a five-year-old Texas Medicaid fraud case seeking $1.8 billion from the reproductive health provider.
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November 7, 2026
Texas Schools Post Ten Commandments Under State LawClassrooms across Texas are displaying the Ten Commandments under a law passed last year, while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to take up a challenge.
October 30, 2026
Texas Supreme Court Stays Mystery Mailer DepositionsThe high court pauses a lower-court order requiring an LLC to testify about controversial mailers sent in Waco.
October 28, 2026
Professors Union Challenges Texas A&M Teaching BanA faculty union filed a federal legal argument asserting the university system's ban on certain teachings violates free speech.
October 26, 2026
Texas Estimates Reveal Thousands Seek Out-of-State AbortionsA new Guttmacher Institute study tracks how Texas residents access abortion services outside of state law.
October 20, 2026
Texas to Hold First 15th Court of Appeals ElectionThe statewide court established in 2023 will face its first electoral test during the November 2026 cycle.
October 20, 2026
Texas Redraws Congressional Districts for 2026New legislative maps designed to add five Republican seats to the Texas congressional delegation are set for the 2026 cycle.
October 16, 2026
Allstate and Arity Seek Sanctions Against Texas AGThe defendants filed for sanctions after the state abandoned its key expert witnesses late in the two-year legal battle.
October 13, 2026
Plaintiffs Requested Dismissal of Texas Protest LawsuitThree women moved to drop their legal challenge against the state after receiving one-year bans from the Capitol.
October 13, 2026
Texas Woman Sued Anti-Abortion Group Over PillsA lawsuit alleges four members of Students for Life of America violated a state law regarding the delivery of abortion pills.
October 13, 2026
Supreme Court Declined Texas A&M Lawsuit AppealThe justices left in place a state court ruling that grants the university immunity from certain federal employment claims.
This section follows court rulings and their procedural history, challenges to new statutes, criminal law developments and the administrative law decisions that reshape how agencies operate. Reporting runs through Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso. Texas operates two separate high courts — one for civil matters, one for criminal — a structural feature that shapes how appellate coverage is organized and followed. The biennial legislative session concentrates most statutory output into a short window, making court challenges to new laws a recurring story type in the years that follow.
