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University of Houston ( JD) Occupation. Attorney; Judge. Jeffrey Vincent Brown (born March 27, 1970) is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and a former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Donald Trump.
The district court has exclusive jurisdiction over felony cases, cases involving title to land, and election contest cases. It shares jurisdiction with the county courts, and in some case justice of the peace courts, for civil cases (its lowest limit for hearing a case is a mere $200 in controversy, while JP courts can hear cases up to $10,000).
Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C.S. § 201 et seq. Christensen v. Harris County, 529 U.S. 576 (2000), is a Supreme Court of the United States case holding that a county's policy of requiring employees to schedule time off to avoid accruing time off was not prohibited by the Fair Labor Standards Act .
July 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM. HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Harris County Public Health has denied reports it is pressuring employees to employ personal gender pronouns on correspondence. A HCPH employee ...
Dissent. Kavanaugh. Laws applied. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender people from employment discrimination.
State court service. In 2019, Governor Greg Abbott appointed McClure to the trial court bench in Harris County. He was elevated to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in December 2020. He is the first African American judge on the court since 1998, and the third African American judge on the court in Texas history.
Justice of the peace. A justice of the peace in Taos County, New Mexico hears a case (1941). A justice of the peace ( JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the same meaning.
University of Texas, Austin ( BA) South Texas College of Law ( JD) Kim Ogg (born 1959) is an American lawyer and prosecutor. She is the Harris County District Attorney in Texas and assumed office on January 1, 2017. Her current term ends on December 31, 2024. She was previously the City of Houston ’s first appointed Anti-Gang Task Force ...