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The 10 judges will be the first to serve on the state’s new trial court that will only hear civil cases connected to industry.
What’s being called the biggest shakeup to Texas courts in over a century became official in Fort Worth today.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott swore in the justices for the Texas Business Court, a new trial court system that will hear civil suits stemming from the corporate world. At the kickoff celebration, NBC 5 got answers from state leaders on the oversight the new system will have.
Texas’s 10 newest judges have been sworn into a legal system all their own.
At a ceremony at Texas A&M law school in downtown Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon, Governor Abbott took oaths of office from the justices of the Texas Business Court.
“I think the best way to sum it up is, it’s about time,” said Abbott.
Officials said the business court was a new statewide trial court system that would only hear civil cases connected to big industry, including issues involving corporations and their shareholders.
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