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| The Fourteenth Court of Appeals is one of fourteen intermediate courts of appeals in Texas. Its geographic jurisdiction overlaps with that of the First Court of Appeals, which also sits in Houston. Both courts are located in Downtown Houston. Unlike the Texas Supreme Court, these appellate courts hear both civil and criminal appels and original mandamus proceedings. Cases are randomly assigned to either. |
| The 14th Court of Appeals is best known for its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, in which the court, sitting en banc, rejected a constitutional challenge to Texas' sodomy statute. The U.S. Supreme Court later reversed in its precedent-setting decision expanding the right to privacy to consensual homosexual conduct. Lawrence v. Texas (02-102) 539 U.S. 558 (2003), 41 S. W. 3d 349, reversed and remanded |
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| 2007 OPINIONS BY JUDGES OF THE FOURTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS Chief Justice Adele Hedges Justice John Anderson Justice Richard Edelman Justice Wanda Fowler Justice Kem Thompson Frost Justice Eva M. Guzman Justice J. Harvey Hudson Justice Charles W. Seymore Justice Leslie Brock Yates |
| December 2006 Opinions from the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston (Tex.App.- Houston [14th Dist.] 2006) |