February 18, 2021
A former Texas state judge suing her onetime colleagues for allegedly firing her due to her husband's political beliefs told the full Fifth Circuit that both a panel of the appeals court and the district court wrongly passed over her claim that she was fired for filing suit.
February 01, 2021
The Fifth Circuit tossed a free speech case Monday brought by a former Texas state judge against seven of her onetime colleagues, finding that the First Amendment protections she invoked do not apply to her and that her termination, which she said happened because she did not endorse her boss' favored judicial candidate, was constitutional.
December 11, 2020
A former associate judge in Texas told the Fifth Circuit in oral arguments Friday to revive the free speech lawsuit she brought against the seven judges in Tarrant County she alleges harassed and eventually fired her for not endorsing her boss' favored judicial candidate.
December 16, 2019
A former Texas state judge will ask the Fifth Circuit to revive her free speech case against Tarrant County and seven judges who she claims harassed and eventually fired her for not endorsing her boss' favored judicial candidate.