Texas has fourteen intermediate appellate courts. The structure of Texas’s intermediate appellate court districts is fraught with defects that create conflicts among the courts, unnecessary burdens on Texas’s two high courts, inefficiencies, and confusion.

2020– Small claims trials are proceedings in which litigants seek redress in relatively low-dollar amounts, without the complexity of more formal proceedings. The purpose of small claims courts—in Texas and elsewhere—is to provide speedy, simplified, low-cost legal resolutions to small civil disputes

2019– Over the past twenty-five years, Texas has led the way in restoring fairness to our civil justice system. We now have the opportunity to lead the way in establishing a stable, consistent, fair, highly qualified,