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• Title: State Bar Texas v. Maria Gomez
• Author : Supreme Court of Texas
• Release Date : January 22, 1994
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 72 KB

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The sole question presented for our determination is whether the district court below has jurisdiction of this suit, which
complains of the failure of the State Bar of Texas to compel member lawyers to provide free legal services to Texans who cannot
pay for those services. We conclude that the district court correctly dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. Thus, we
reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and remand this case to the district court with instructions to dismiss.1 After being refused free legal services, Maria Gomez, Alicia Naveja, and Leonardo Chaves, on behalf of themselves and others
similarly situated (collectively, Gomez), filed suit in a Travis County district court against the State Bar of Texas and
two of its officials at that time, James Parsons III, President, and Karen Johnson, Executive Director (collectively, State
Bar). Gomez contends that the State Bar, by not effectively encouraging attorneys to volunteer free legal services, has illegally
failed to meet the legal needs of indigent Texans. Specifically, Gomez alleges violations of the following provisions of the
Texas Constitution: (1) Article I, Section 13 (open courts); (2) Article I, Section 3 (equal protection); (3) Article I, Section
3a (equal rights); (4) Article I, Section 19 (due course of law); and (5) Article I, Section 29 (inviolate nature of the Bill
of Rights). Gomez further asserts violations of the Texas anti-discrimination statute,2 the Texas Disciplinary Rules of
Professional Conduct,3 and the Texas Lawyer's Creed.4

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