Woo Pig! Wilbur Goes to Court By Joe Tanguma of the Walsh Anderson Firm You may have heard a story in the news recently of a certain Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig. His name is Wilbur, but not to the neighborhood Home Owner’s Association (HOA) presiding over Wilbur’s digs—the backyard of the Sardo Family’s abode. To [...]
Did school district have a duty to protect student from off-campus violence?
May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In September of 2011, this column focused on the case of a nine-year-old girl who’d allegedly been sexually abused when an adult who should have been forbidden by school policy from retrieving her from class was permitted to do so on six different occasions. At that time, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court [...]
Where Have All the Children Gone?
April 16, 2012 By
What to Wear to the Prom?
April 13, 2012 By
By Waller Starky As someone who never danced at a prom or briefed a case in law school, I feel singularly qualified to comment on Haley Turner’s excellent article in this month’s Texas School Administrators’ Legal Digest, which offers loads of insight on recent legal trends in gender stereotype issues at proms. I’m just gonna [...]
Court Approves Settlement in High Profile Religion Case Over Student Speech at Graduation
March 5, 2012 By
“This was the first time that I have experienced a federal judge offering a personal statement to the attorneys—especially a blessing,” remarked D. Craig Wood of a case that attracted searing national controversy and ended recently in amicable settlement. Wood, an attorney with the San Antonio office of Walsh, Anderson, Gallegos, Green & Treviño, was [...]
