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County will pay two judge salaries after Marquez appointment
What happened: Midland County commissioners voted Wednesday, Sept. 2, to appoint judge-elect Jay Marquez as acting county judge while County Judge Terry Johnson remains suspended from office. Marquez won the Republican county judge nomination after a May runoff and faces no Democratic opponent in November, effectively making him the county judge-elect….
Three judges assigned to hear MISD Robin Hood lawsuit
Editor’s note: The Permian Press paid for and reviewed the publicly available court documents in case D-1-GN-26-006002 for this article. What happened: About a month after Midland ISD filed suit against the state over its Robin Hood recapture system, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice James Blacklock assigned a special three-judge…
What does IDEA Public Schools’ lawsuit against MISD claim?
Editor’s note: The Permian Press paid for and reviewed the publicly available documents from federal case 7:26-cv-00278-DC-RCG for this article. What happened: IDEA Public Schools is suing Midland ISD in federal court over the end of the IDEA Travis partnership, arguing that MISD breached the two organizations’ agreements by removing…