Sources
Primary sources for the published cases. Each case’s sub-pages cite specific items from this list; the full inventory is consolidated here.
Texas Bar Ethics Opinion 666
Primary — bar & legal-ethics
- Texas Bar Ethics Opinion 539 (April 2002), Texas Supreme Court Professional Ethics Committee. Hosted at the Texas Center for Legal Ethics opinion archive.
- Texas Bar Ethics Opinion 666 (December 2016), Texas Center for Legal Ethics.
- ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.7, current text and comments. American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility.
- Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.06, conflicts of interest. Texas Bar.
- Texas Family Code § 2.401, informal (common-law) marriage.
- Texas Government Code, Chapter 81, State Bar of Texas authority.
Primary — case law
- Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015). Same-sex marriage nationwide.
Public-record institutional
- Texas Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel published disciplinary opinions.
- Texas Bar member directory and grievance-committee panel rosters.
- Texas Center for Legal Ethics opinion archive.
- State-bar published rules and ethics opinions for the 50 states.
Admiralty Jurisdiction & Corporate Personhood
Primary — statute & constitutional
- U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 2. Judicial power extending to admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.
- U.S. Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment. Due-process and equal-protection clauses.
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions (Rules B, C, D, E).
- Uniform Commercial Code, as adopted in the various states.
Primary — case law
- Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., 118 U.S. 394 (1886). The full opinion and the Reporter’s headnote attributed to J.C. Bancroft Davis.
- Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976). Independent expenditures as protected speech.
- Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010). Corporate independent political spending as protected speech.
Primary — biographical / archival
- U.S. Reports volumes from the Bancroft Davis reportership era.
- Bancroft Davis biographical entries in standard reference works (Dictionary of American Biography, etc.).
- U.S. State Department archival records on Davis’s diplomatic appointments.
- Times of London archive (Davis’s correspondent period).
Secondary — legal-academic
- Legal-historical scholarship on the Santa Clara headnote and the actual textual record of corporate personhood (multiple law-review articles addressing the doctrinal foundations of corporate constitutional rights).
- Legal-academic critiques of Citizens United and the corporate-person doctrine.
- Mainstream legal-encyclopedia entries on admiralty jurisdiction, corporate personhood, and the persona / legal-fiction distinction.
Cross-cutting
- American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility — Model Rules archive, formal and informal opinions.
- State-bar ethics-opinion archives for the 50 states — for any 50-state survey of post-Obergefell rule revisions.
- Westlaw and HeinOnline — for legal-academic literature searches and disciplinary case-law review.
Specific URLs and inline citations are carried on the case sub-pages themselves. This index lists the source bodies. Where a source is behind a paywall (Westlaw, HeinOnline, certain trade publications), the index lists the source body but not a direct URL.