A federal judge preserved Harris County’s misdemeanor bail agreement. An appeal is underway.

A preliminary injunction blocks border-barrier construction in Big Bend National Park while an environmental lawsuit proceeds.

The Supreme Court is considering whether federal law blocks Boulder’s state-law climate claims against Exxon and Suncor.

A judge ordered Galveston ISD to display donated Ten Commandments posters while a constitutional fight continues.

Aqua RichJo | September 25, 2026 Melissa Lucio remains on Texas death row after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a lower court’s finding that she was innocent of her daughter’s 2007 death. Four judges dissented. The ruling does not set an immediate execution date. This case has several legal decisions that cannot be folded into one headline. Lucio was convicted and sentenced to death in 2008. In 2024, a district judge recommended overturning her conviction and fin

Aqua Richjo | September 25, 2026 A woman called police during a domestic disturbance in April 2024. Former Lewisville officer Filemon Perez met her while responding to that call. On September 24, a Denton County jury convicted Perez of stalking her. According to KERA’s report on the trial, evidence showed Perez visited the woman’s apartment complex 83 times over roughly six months while on duty. GPS records reportedly showed that almost all of those visits had no legitimate w

Aqua RichJo| September 25, 2026 Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in 2016. It was never counted. The Fort Worth woman was still convicted of illegal voting, sentenced to five years in prison and left to fight the case for nearly a decade. Now her acquittal stands. On September 24, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed prosecutors’ request to review the ruling that cleared Mason. The court said it had improvidently granted review, meaning it should not have taken

Texas has until December 31, 2029, to install air conditioning in every state prison under a federal court order issued this week. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman found that extreme heat in uncooled prisons violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. He ordered prison officials to begin a plan immediately and report their progress to the court every six months.