Scott Brister

In a court concurrence, urged Texas courts to end jury strikes without stated reasons, citing racial discrimination in jury selection.

September 26, 2008Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com

Received the Texas Home School Coalition’s endorsement for Chief Justice of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals.

September 23, 2026

Source: policy.thsc.org

Wrote an appeals opinion directing a business court to dismiss a claim against a company lawyer over advice about firing its chief executive.

July 14, 2026

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Wrote the appeals opinion ending a lawsuit that had blocked Texas public school ratings for 2023.

April 3, 2025

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Began his term as the first Chief Justice of Texas’s Fifteenth Court of Appeals.

September 1, 2024

Source: txcourts.gov

Submitted court exhibits for Harris County in a Texas Supreme Court case about voting by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 20, 2020

Source: scotxblog.com

As chair of the state school-finance commission, led changes that removed a specific new-funding target from its final recommendations.

December 19, 2018

Source: texastribune.org

Wrote the Texas Supreme Court opinion requiring State Farm to take part in an appraisal of a homeowner’s hail-damaged roof.

July 3, 2009

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Wrote a court opinion agreeing with a treatment order but declining to decide wider questions about outpatient care in Campbell v. Texas.

July 31, 2003

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A federal court rejected a lawsuit over the Ten Commandments display in his courtroom because the plaintiff lacked standing. The court did not rule on constitutionality.

November 13, 1998

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