Tag: Courts

AUSTIN (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, taking Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to court again over his escalating response to border crossers arriving from Mexico.

After losing by just 10 votes, Edinburg City Council candidate Gerardo “Gerry” Lozano has filed a lawsuit in state district court seeking to nullify the election that saw Place 3 incumbent David White reelected to a second term.

Local federal courts were quite busy during 2023.

RAYMONDVILLE — Willacy County officials are paying a 33-year-old man’s family a $1 million settlement nearly two years after attorneys charged deputies beat him to death in the county jail.

Juan Alvarez, who serves as municipal judge for the cities of Weslaco and Mercedes, has announced he is running for the 332nd state District Court.

After 43 years on the bench, state District Judge Mario E. Ramirez Jr. will be setting down the gavel one last time at the end of next December.

A father and son from Rio Hondo are facing charges in connection with a deadly Thanksgiving crash.

A Chinese man who was arrested in May for possessing and transporting child pornography after illegally entering the United States pleaded guilty and has been convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern for District of Texas.

A manslaughter indictment against a 27-year-old Edcouch man who accidentally shot and killed his cousin over the 2021 Easter weekend has been dismissed over insufficient evidence.

The Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday declared Minerva M. Pena’s seat vacant and appointed Tim Ramirez to fill it until May, when a special election is scheduled to determine the true winner of the disputed November 2020 school board race between Pena and Marisa F. Leal.