Tex. Gov't Code § 81.0751 · Subchapter E. DISCIPLINE
APPEALS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission or a respondent attorney may appeal:
(1) a finding of a panel of a district grievance committee under Section 81.075(e) only to the Board of Disciplinary Appeals;
(2) a finding of the Board of Disciplinary Appeals to the supreme court; and
(3) a judgment of a district court as in civil cases generally.
(b) In an appeal of a finding of a panel of a district grievance committee made to the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, the board may:
(1) affirm in whole or part the panel's finding;
(2) modify the panel's finding and affirm the finding as modified;
(3) reverse in whole or part the panel's finding and enter a finding the board determines the panel should have entered; or
(4) reverse the panel's finding and remand the complaint for a rehearing to be conducted by:
(A) the panel that entered the finding; or
(B) a statewide grievance committee panel composed of members selected from the state bar districts other than the district from which the appeal was taken.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.81.htm
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