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Art Martínez de Vara Named to San Antonio Magazine’s Top Attorneys List for 2025

The Martínez de Vara Law Firm is proud to announce that founding attorney Art Martínez de Vara has once again been recognized among San Antonio Magazine’s Top Attorneys for 2025 in the area of Civil Law Litigation. In the official notification, San Antonio Magazine emphasized: “This prestigious honor is based on nominations from fellow attorneys who trust and respect you for your exceptional …

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Firm Helps Dallas Residents Reform City Hall

At the November 5, 2024 general election, residents of Dallas passed historic City Charter amendments ensuring greater accountability and public safety. The Martinez de Vara Law Firm represented Dallas HERO, the nonprofit organization which circulated the proposed amendments. The Firm drafted the three reform propositions, later named Propositions S, T and U and defended them …

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Court Upholds the Constitutionality of Civil Liability for Candidates Not Naming a Campaign Treasurer

The Martinez de Vara Law Firm represented Cameron County Republican Party Chair Morgan Graham in a suit for civil liability against Reynaldo Gonzalez, Jr., a candidate for Party Chair, who “failed to appoint a campaign treasurer with the Texas Ethics Commission upon becoming a candidate.” Gonzalez challenged the constitutionality of the civil liability …

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Supreme Court Axes 3 Dallas Ballot Proposals

The Texas Supreme Court ordered Dallas to drop three proposed charter amendments from the November 5, 2024 election ballot because they were designed to cancel out propositions panned by council members and some top city officials. The Martinez de Vara Law Firm represented Plaintiffs Dallas HERO and Cathy Cortina Arvizu. In …

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Art Martinez de Vara goes “On the Record” to discuses his new book.

Art Martinez de Vara goes “On the Record” to discuses his new book “Beneath Sacred Ground” about the Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) cemetery and those buried in it. The interview originally aired June 27, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ07BEl3my8 BENEATH SACRED GROUND by Art Martínez de Vara documents the lives, struggles, and ethnogenesis of the …

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Firm Secures Candidate’s Right to Sue Opponent Over Campaign Finance Violations

The Martinez de Vara Law Firm has secured a major victory for election integrity and transparency after the Texas Court of Appeals for the Thirteenth District (Corpus Christi) issued an opinion in favor of our client and a Texas law aimed at transparency in our elections. The case Gonzalez v. Graham, No. 13-23-00091-CV (Tex. App. Jan. 18, …

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Tejano Patriot: Audiobook Release and Podcast

Art Martinez de Vara’s much-celebrated biography, “Tejano Patriot: The Revolutionary Life of Jose Francisco Ruiz, 1783 – 1840,” has taken a new, exciting form as it’s now available as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes! This transformative release brings the revolutionary life story of Jose Francisco Ruiz to a wider audience. Accompanying the release …

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Firm Assists Client Gain Access to Skull of Alamo Defender for Forensic Portrait

Lois Gibson, a renowned forensic artist with a career spanning four decades, has turned her skills towards solving a historical mystery at the Alamo. Working alongside Lee Spencer White, founder of the Alamo Defenders Descendants Association, Gibson has been granted access to a partial skull discovered in 1979 on the Alamo grounds. The skull, believed …

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Dept. of Interior approves plan for reinternment of Aboriginal individuals by Witte Museum and Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation

The Martinez de Vara Law Firm is pleased to announce that after a lengthy process, the U.S. Department of the Interior has approved a plan by the Witte Museum and Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation to reinter Aboriginal individuals in their ancestral lands in West Texas. The Martinez de Vara Law Firm represents the Tāp Pīlam …

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