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# Martinez de Vara Law Firm

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- [Art Martínez de Vara Named to San Antonio Magazine's Top Attorneys List for 2025](https://martinezdevara.com/art-martinez-de-vara-named-to-san-antonio-magazines-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
- [Supreme Court Axes 3 Dallas Ballot Proposals](https://martinezdevara.com/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. 
- [Court Upholds the Constitutionality of Civil Liability for Candidates Not Naming a Campaign Treasurer](https://martinezdevara.com/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
- [Firm Helps Dallas Residents Reform City Hall](https://martinezdevara.com/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
- [Art Martinez de Vara goes "On the Record" to discuses his new book.](https://martinezdevara.com/art-martinez-de-vara-goes-on-the-record-to-discuses-his-new-book/) - Martinez de Vara 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
- [Sandy Oaks Incorporation](https://martinezdevara.com/sandy-oaks-incorporation/) - In 2013, the Martinez de Vara Law Firm represented the Committee to Incorporate Sandy Oaks, a group of residents seeking to incorporate their community into a municipality and avoid annexation by the City of San Antonio. The City of San Antonio announced an aggressive plan for southside annexation, which included the area now known as
- [Two Firm Attorneys named 'Top Attorneys in San Antonio 2023'](https://martinezdevara.com/two-firm-attorneys-named-top-attorneys-in-san-antonio-2023/) - Each year San Antonio Magazine polls the legal community of Bexar County, and surrounding areas, to create their list of "Top Attorneys in San Antonio" In 2023, Art Martinez de Vara and Adrian A. Spears, II, were both named Top Attorneys in San Antonio in the category of Civil Litigation. This is the third year
- [Dept. of Interior approves plan for reinternment of Aboriginal individuals by Witte Museum and Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation](https://martinezdevara.com/dept-of-interior-approves-plan-for-reinternment-of-aboriginal-individuals-by-witte-museum-and-tap-pilam-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
- [Firm Assists Client Gain Access to Skull of Alamo Defender for Forensic Portrait](https://martinezdevara.com/firm-assists-client-again-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 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 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
- [Tejano Patriot: Audiobook Release and Podcast](https://martinezdevara.com/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
- [Firm Secures Candidate’s Right to Sue Opponent Over Campaign Finance Violations](https://martinezdevara.com/firm-secures-candidates-right-to-sue-opponent-over-treasurers-report-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,
- [Bexar ESDs join forces to be ‘set free’](https://martinezdevara.com/emergency-services-districts-set-free/) - Combined effort leads to repeal of statute that put ESDs under the thumb of City of San Antonio By Art Martinez de Vara, June 2023 Bexar County’s Emergency Services Districts had burdens that no other ESD in the State had to bear. It needed the permission of the City of San Antonio in order to
- [Annexation plans raise ire of residents](https://martinezdevara.com/annexation-plans-raise-ire-of-residents/) - Annexation plans raise ire of residents Jul 19, 2019 By MIKE EDDLEMAN Liberty Hill Independent More than 30 defiant residents crowded into the Liberty Hill City Council meeting July 8, addressing the Council one at a time for more than an hour, to voice their opposition to plans to annex their properties into the City.
- [Texas History: José Francisco Ruiz is the 'Tejano Patriot' you don't know](https://martinezdevara.com/texas-history-jose-francisco-ruiz-is-the-tejano-patriot-you-dont-know/) - Texas History: José Francisco Ruiz is the 'Tejano Patriot' you don't know Michael BarnesAustin American-Statesman José Francisco Ruiz was one of two native Texans to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence Born into a well-connected if not wealthy San Antonio family, Ruiz became an attorney, teacher, author, public servant, diplomat, trader and military leader. Art

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