• What’s happening: Expanding the specialization of our court system, the new Fifteenth Court of Appeals—which also begins operating in September—will handle appeals from the specialized business court as well as those involving the state or state agencies, including constitutional and administrative issues.
• ICYMI: Gov. Abbott has appointed Scott A. Brister, Scott K. Field and April L. Farris as the inaugural judges on this court.
• Dive deeper: Texas has a long history of establishing specialized trial courts to bring expertise and efficiency to highly specific cases. It’s only natural to extend that specialization to the appellate court level, as well.
• 👀Texas hasn’t created a new appellate court since the 1980s, while our economy and population have grown exponentially in that time.

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