Texas Supreme Court

The court may decide whether a particular challenge to Texas' Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, has a path forward.

Justices will have to decide who has the final say on whether delta-8 THC is legal: the Texas Legislature or the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Texas' highest civil court is set to hear and rule on cases dealing with several hot-button issues, including hemp, gender-affirming care and the state's ban on abortions after detection of cardiac activity.

Texas Supreme Court justices reinforced their stance that judges who decline to perform certain weddings for religious reasons won’t face state sanctions.

Let’s just say, 2025 was a lot. Here are the cool, the fascinating and the just plain fun stories that happened in North Texas over the last year.

The high court revived a three-time South Texas Republican congressional candidate's claims that the state's medical board unfairly disciplined him for calling himself a doctor on the campaign trail. He went to medical school but isn't a licensed physician.

Judges who decline to perform weddings based on their religious beliefs won't be violating state rules on judicial impartiality, the Texas Supreme Court said in a comment added to the state judicial conduct code Friday.

Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Kyle Hawkins to the state's highest court after a former justice said he wasn't seeking reelection earlier this year. Hawkins most recently served as part of the transition team to the Trump administration for the U.S. Office of the Solicitor General.

The city of Dallas filed its petition to the Supreme Court of Texas Oct. 16.

RJR Vapor told Texas Supreme Court justices Wednesday that while its nicotine pouches and lozenges are derived from tobacco, they're not tobacco products and shouldn't be taxed as such. The state comptroller says that rationale would make the products more accessible to minors and cost Texas millions in tax revenue.

The attorney general's office is challenging the validity of a district judge's order that limits how much information PFLAG, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, has to hand over about Texas families seeking gender-affirming care for children.

Texas could be the first of several states to stop using the ABA for accreditation.