[yoamro]

.......remind me again how the courts in Texas work?

"In 2004 a court in Texas ordered a former Alcatel employee to give his former employer a software algorithm — which existed entirely in his mind. The idea, which he was still working on and was still too abstract and incomplete to be a patentable invention, was nevertheless deemed the property of Alcatel, forcing the ex-employee to turn over the algorithm in the months after he was fired."

[karmajunkie]

Mostly, they don't.

Judges in Texas are generally elected, and so you get all the same kinds of electoral corruption that you have anytime a politician raises campaign funds.

[ewoodrich]

Most states have local judicial elections of some sort. Texas has partisan judicial elections, and your point very much stands.

[ArkyBeagle]

That's the infamous Evan Brown case, right? Ah, good ole DSC....