Boldly exploring decisions

This post by John Browning from The Lawyerist discusses various court opinions where the judges have cited to Star Trek or famous lines from one of the series or from the movies. Who says there is no humor in law?

To Boldly Go Where Few Judges Have Gone Before: How the Bench is Using a Pop-Culture Sci-Fi Classic to Explain its Decisions
The Lawyerist
by John Browning on September 6th, 2013
http://lawyerist.com/boldly-go-judges-gone-bench-using-pop-culture-sci-fi-classic-explain-decisions/

New Supreme Court Judge

Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/us/politics/07confirm.html?_r=1&hp

Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31
By CHARLIE SAVAGEPublished: August 6, 2009

WASHINGTON — Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was expected to administer the oath of office to Judge Sotomayor, 55, in the next few days, with a formal ceremony likely in September. She succeeds Justice David H. Souter, who retired in June. (cont)

Barefoot Sanders Died Sunday

From today's Texas Lawyer's Daily News:

Barefoot Sanders, who served as a judge for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 2006, died Sunday Sept. 21 at his Dallas home at the age of 83.

To read his Memoriam:
http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?hubtype=TxCaseAlert&id=900005468059

Finding Texas Courts

Handy little directory search - http://dm.courts.state.tx.us/OCA/DirectorySearch.aspx. You can search by county, type of court, court personnel, or city.

Elrod nominated to 5th Circuit

From today's Abovethelaw blog

"Texas state court judge Jennifer Elrod (whom we previously identified as a possible nominee to the Fifth Circuit)...has been officially nominated to that court. "