Legal Topics

Bills in the 2025 Texas Legislature

Posted by: Roy Armstrong | Jun 26, 2025

The 2025 Legislative regular session has finished. We have summarized the bills most likely to be of interest to ARBs. Click the link below. http://texasarb.com/uploads/files/A_2025_Bill_Summaries_6-25-2025.pdf

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Recent Property Tax Cases

Posted by: Roy Armstrong | Feb 18, 2025

Recent Court Opinions Updated : February 15, 2025 Rocksprings Val Verde Wind, LLC v. Casanova 2024 WL 5248451 (Tex. App. – San Antonio, December 31, 2024, no pet. hist.) (not reported) Issues: Expert testimony; intangible property The appraisal district appraised Rocksprings’s wind farm at $176M in 2018. In…

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Recent Attorney General's Opinions

Posted by: Roy Armstrong | Nov 22, 2023

Attorney General's Opinions Last updated - November 22, 2023 Opinion No. KP-0432 February 24, 2023 Issues: Appraisal district’s legal counsel Rene Montalvo was a lawyer in private practice in Starr County. His clients included the Starr County Appraisal District. Then he became the county attorney. He asked the…

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Decision-Making Fatigue

Posted by: Roy Armstrong | Sep 29, 2011

ARB members often have to make many tough decisions in a day. Making decisions is more tiring that people think. I recommend this article from the New York Times. It starts by explaining why a parole board tends to be more lenient early in the day and tougher as the day wears on. ARB members may be subject to the same…

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