The church sued the university in 2019 after SMU's board of trustees voted to split from the church without approval from the ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas tried to declare its independence after the church voted to ban gay weddings and ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the United Methodist Church are set to deliver oral arguments in the Texas ...

Southern Methodist University is set to appear in the Texas Supreme Court in a bid to separate from the United Methodist Church.

The Texas Supreme Court set oral arguments in the case of SMU and the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional ...

In layman's terms, the fight is over who owns the nonprofit private university and has the authority to set its rules.

Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, raised a farmer, didn’t expect to be a lawyer, let alone a member of the state’s highest civil ...

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) appointed Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of the governor, to serve as the chief justice on the Texas Supreme Court.

Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of Gov. Greg Abbott, has been named the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme ...

Abbott appointed Justice Jimmy Blacklock to serve as chief justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, the governor's office ...

Texas Supreme Court justices, from left, Don Willett ... Bush's 2005 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, graduated with ...