The Texas Supreme Court set oral arguments in the case of SMU and the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional ...

In layman's terms, the fight is over who owns the nonprofit private university and has the authority to set its rules.

The church sued the university in 2019 after SMU's board of trustees voted to split from the church without approval from the ...

A multi-year fight over whether Southern Methodist University can separate itself from the United Methodist Church is heading ...

The Texas Supreme Court is weighing three landmark cases concerning conflicts between the state and religious freedom, and ...

Hecht is the longest-tenured Supreme Court justice in Texas history. He won six reelections and led the court as chief ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the United Methodist Church are set to deliver oral arguments in the Texas ...

Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of Gov. Greg Abbott, has been named the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He replaces Nathan Hecht, the court’s longest serving justice, who ...

Paxton appealed a federal court ruling blocking the voter ID law in August 2017, the same month he asked the U.S. Supreme ...

Texas Supreme Court justices, from left, Don Willett ... Bush's 2005 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, graduated with ...

Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, raised a farmer, didn’t expect to be a lawyer, let alone a member of the state’s highest civil ...

Southern Methodist University is set to appear in the Texas Supreme Court in a bid to separate from the United Methodist ...