Some of Texas’ most esteemed lawyers and judges are resisting Supreme Court Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock’s push statewide to require all pretrial hearings in a case to stay with the same judge from start to finish.
During a meeting Friday to discuss Blacklock’s Feb. 7 request to eliminate the central docket method of assigning cases, the Supreme Court advisory committee overwhelmingly indicated it would be a mistake.
“I came into this meeting prepared to hate the central docket and to argue for its demise,” said Justice Emily Miskel of the Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District in Dallas.
Changing her ...