Amarillo By Morning: Tortious Interference with At-Will Employment
One proposition that is not controversial in the law is that lower courts are bound to follow the decisions of higher courts. So, for example, an intermediate Court of Appeals in Texas must follow the precedents handed down by the Texas Supreme Court. A more controversial topic: footnotes. Yes, there’s a perennial, raging debate in the legal world about whether citations to case law should go in the body of a brief or in the footnotes. It gets pretty heated. Really. I tend to side with the citations-in-the-body camp, but a recent Texas case has me rethinking the value of […]