Court sets faster pace for Wallace Hall suit against UT
With an important deadline looming, the Texas Supreme Court has set a faster-than-usual schedule for University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall Jr.’s continuing legal battle over access to UT admissions records.
Hall sued the university he oversees to force the release of documents, including confidential student records, from an investigation into favoritism in admissions to the school. After two lower courts dismissed that lawsuit, Hall took his fight to the Supreme Court, where he has been pressing for greater urgency because his term as regent expires Feb. 1.
“The court may lose jurisdiction to award Hall with effective relief if the case is not decided before his successor is sworn in,” his lawyers warned in a motion to expedite his case.
The court granted Hall’s request Tuesday, giving his lawyers only 10 days, not the typical 30 days, to file merits briefs — more extensive and expansive versions of the arguments both sides have already submitted to the court. UT’s lawyers will have 10 days to respond instead of the usual 20, and Hall will have a week to file a final reply.
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