Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1986
Journal Title
Texas Bar Journal
ISSN
0040-4187
Abstract
Texas, like a number of other states, has ceased publication of its "official" reporters- -Texas Reports on the civil side and Texas Criminal Reports for criminal cases. What, then, is the "official" version of a Texas Supreme Court or Court of Criminal Appeals decision today? The Southwestern Reporter? Southwestern Reporter: Texas Cases? The Texas Supreme Court Journal? Perhaps the original signed typescript on record in the court clerk's office?
The answer, as the reader may have guessed, is "none of the above." But, as we shall see, a current "official" source for court opinions is, in fact, mandated by the state Legislature. Yet no one today could possibly find or cite this current "official" version of Texas Supreme Court or Court of Criminal Appeals opinions. And therein hangs a tale.
First Page
82
Volume Number
49
Publisher
State Bar of Texas
Recommended Citation
Jim Paulsen & James Hambleton,
The Official Texas Court Reports: Birth, Death and Resurrection,
49
Tex. B.J.
82
(1986).
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