Researching Texas Law » Tutorials

Online Sources for Texas Rules of Court

Matt Cordon — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:05:07 +0000

Chapter 3 of Researching Texas Law includes URLs for many of the sources for Texas rules of court. Many of these rules are easy to locate. Here are two links that provide access to most of the rules:

Supreme Court of Texas

The site of the Supreme Court of Texas provides access to most of the rules of general applicability. Below are links to the specific types of rules.

Texas Local Rules

The most comprehensive source for local rules is a softbound annual publication entitled Local Rules of the District Courts in Texas. This book is not duplicated online. The best collection of links for local rules in Texas is Texas Local Rules. The site includes links to rules from about 48 counties.

Tutorial: Texas Attorney General Opinions

Matt Cordon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:15:26 +0000

The tutorial below focuses on how to locate and to cite to an opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General.

The Attorney General’s website has more information about these opinions and how to locate them.

Chapter 10 of Researching Texas Law also cover the subject of how to research Texas Attorneys General opinions.

Tutorial: Locating and Citing Texas Session Laws

Matt Cordon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:00:00 +0000

The tutorial below provides instruction about how to locate an older statute that has been repealed and codified in one of the Texas subject-matter codes. For this question, assume the researcher is trying to locate and cite to a statute as it appeared in 1986. The statute that appeared in Vernon’s Civil Statutes of the State of Texas was repealed in 1991 and immediately codified in Chapter 791 of the Texas Government Code.