Case files B1-B10,000 1967-1980

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Case files B1-B10, 000, 1967-1980

Case files B1-B10,000 1967-1980

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The case files consist of all applications filed and records created during appeals to the Texas Supreme Court between 1944 and 1980. This includes all applications rejected by the Court and all applications accepted by the Court and allowed to be argued as a case. A case before the Supreme Court begins as an application which lists a cause of action as to why the Court should hear the case. The most common cause of action is for a writ of error. Other causes of action include writs of mandamus, writs of habeas corpus, a certified question, and a direct appeal from a lower court when the Supreme Court has direct jurisdiction. The (See Series II) list the cause of action for each application. Once the Court grants or accepts an application then that application becomes a case. Since 1944, all applications, regardless of their cause of action or if the Court granted the application to hear the case, are filed together to form the group of records known as This finding aid covers the B case files series, 1967-1980. The A case files are in a separate finding aid, covering the years 1944-1966. File dockets case files.

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