Valorie W. Davenport v. the Honorable Carolyn Garcia

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that the trial court's gag order violated the Texas Constitution’s free‑speech guarantee and therefore vacated it, while affirming the trial court’s dismissal of the guardian ad litem as a proper exercise of discretion and declining to address the alleged sealing of the court record. Justice Hecht’s concurring opinion agreed with the result but criticized the majority’s reasoning.