Harris County Courts & Local Services Map

Find Harris County courthouses, government buildings, facilities, local aid organizations, and other services with a new interactive Google map of Harris County Courts & Local Services available on the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library website. Click the screenshot to view, search, and save the Harris County Courts & Local Services Map.

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New Focused Resource Center (FRC) at the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library

The Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library now features the Focused Resource Center (FRC), a book display featuring print resources and research guides with a rotating theme to help guide your research on legal topics. The current theme is Reentry and Criminal Law Resources with a focus on civil and constitutional rights.

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Latest & Greatest – Supreme Quotes: Surprising Quotations in Supreme Court Opinions

Thanks to Benjamin Franklin, we all know that only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. Now, we can also say with some degree of certainty that Benjamin Franklin is top notch as far as “quotable quotes” go. So, too are people like Humphrey Bogart, the Dalai Lama, and Mark Twain. Apparently, the United States Supreme Court has agreed in this regard and had seen fit to pepper some of its opinions with quotations from these well-known individuals and several others, too. Evan J. Roth, a federal Administrative Judge in the Denver Office of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board and self-proclaimed quotation lover, has gathered some of these quotes in a new book, Supreme Quotes: Surprising Quotations in Supreme Court Opinions.

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