FEATURES
Meet The New Presiding Judge
By Randall L. Sarosdy
Addressing Addiction
By Hon. K. Michael Mayes
Tax Foreclosure
By James Bellevue
"That Things Are Not So Ill With You and Me"
By Hon. Royal Furgeson
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Meet The New Presiding Judge
On January 24, 2011, the new Presiding Judge of the 5th Administrative Judicial Region and also the 445th State District Court Judge in Brownsville, the Honorable J. Rolando Olvera Jr., sat down with the Executive Director of the Texas Center for the Judiciary, Randall L. Sarosdy, to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing 5th Administrative Regional judges and the Texas judiciary in general.
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Addressing Addiction
Truth #8: A judge may be the last reliable source of positive intervention. If we are going to succeed at presiding over addicts at the level of their disorder, we must be willing to evaluate them and "consequence" them at that level. So let’s discuss addiction, recovery and relapse at the street level.
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Tax Foreclosure
Property taxes are no judge’s favorite docket. However, judicial diligence is appropriate when awarding excess proceeds claims because of possible illegal claims brought by unscrupulous individuals. Fortunately, a new consumer protection law changes the rules for excess proceeds claims by adding new requirements for proper claimants.
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"That Things Are Not So Ill With You and Me"
We are here this morning to honor and remember our brothers and sisters, no longer with us, who fought the good fight for justice. And justice is certainly worth fighting for. George Washington said that the "due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government." It is indeed the case that the first duty of government is justice, for without justice, there can be no liberty and no civil society.
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This past year was one of the largest classes for the College for New Judges with 114 attendees. Please join the Texas Center in congratulating this year’s graduates for their hard work and dedication to judicial education. -
This year’s Annual Conference was held in Corpus Christi and despite the rainy weather, courtesy of Hurricane Karl, the 510 judges who attended made the conference a success. Read Judge David Garcia’s article as he reflects on the highlights of the conference. -
On November 18, 2010, Justice Bland received one of the most prestigious judicial honors in the country that is presented annually. -
Join us in congratulating Justice Aboussie, retired Chief Justice of the Third Court of Appeals, for being elected to President of the University of Texas School of Law Alumni Association. She continues to be an exemplary of leadership and dedication to the community. -
We are very pleased to announce that the Texas Center for the Judiciary has received the 2010 Community Award from the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. The award was given in recognition of the Texas Center’s ongoing commitment to alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention through its administration of a grant under the Children’s Justice Act.