Publisher: Lubbock Stories, Inc., publisher of Lubbock Lights (“we,” “us,” “the Publisher”). Product: the Daily Legal, in every form we deliver it — printed edition, PDF, email, web pages at lubbocklights.com (including /legal/ and the search archive), the Lubbock Lights apps, data files, exports, and alerts (together, “the Index”). Effective: October 1, 2026 · Version: 1.0

By purchasing, subscribing to, opening, reading, downloading, or searching the Index you accept this License. If you do not accept it, do not use the Index and contact us for a refund of any unused subscription term.

1. What the Index is — and what it is not

1.1 The Index is an index. It is a finding aid. It lists, in summary form, instruments and cases that have been filed with public offices, so that you can locate and read the official record yourself. Each entry is a signpost to a public record. It is not the record.

1.2 The Index is a resource, not a source. The source is the official record on file with the office that holds it. The Index exists for one purpose: to make those official records easier to find. It is published to direct you to the official record, and for no other purpose.

1.3 The Index is not an official document. It is not certified, authenticated, adopted, endorsed, reviewed, or approved by Lubbock County, the Lubbock County Clerk, the Lubbock County District Clerk, any court, any clerk of court, the State of Texas, or any other governmental body. No governmental body participated in its preparation.

1.4 Only the official document speaks. Where the Index and an official record differ in any respect — a name, a date, a case or file number, a party’s role, a document type, a court, a legal description, a dollar figure, an outcome, or anything else — the official record governs and the Index is wrong. Nothing in the Index alters, supplements, or interprets any official record.

1.5 The Index is not a citable authority. Do not cite the Index in any pleading, brief, motion, affidavit, title opinion, commitment, report, appraisal, closing document, credit decision, employment decision, tenancy decision, insurance decision, academic work, or any other document or decision in which the accuracy of a public record matters. Cite the official record. If you need proof of what a public record says, obtain a certified copy from the office that holds it.

1.6 The Index is not legal advice and does not create an attorney–client, fiduciary, or advisory relationship of any kind. Reading an entry tells you that a filing appears to exist; it tells you nothing about the filing’s validity, priority, effect, enforceability, or meaning. Consult a licensed attorney for that.

1.7 The Index is not a consumer report. The Publisher is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.) or any state equivalent, and the Index is not furnished for, and may not be used in whole or in part for, determining any person’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing, licensing, or any other purpose covered by that Act.

2. Where the entries come from

2.1 Sources. Entries are compiled from records made public by, among others:

  • the Lubbock County Clerk — the official public records index of recorded instruments (deeds, deeds of trust, liens, abstracts of judgment, releases, financing statements, assumed-name certificates, marriage license records, and similar), as published on the County’s public records search;
  • the Lubbock County District Clerk — the daily index of cases filed in the district courts and county courts at law, as furnished by that office;
  • the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas — case-filing feeds for matters with a Lubbock connection;
  • Lubbock County — public postings of notices of trustee’s sale and similar notices;
  • other public offices as identified in the edition’s source line.

The office named for an entry holds the official record. The Index tells you where to look; that office is where you look.

2.2 What we do to the records. Automated tools collect the public index information those offices publish, sort it into sections, group related instruments into transactions, insert a comma after surnames for readability, and attach links back to the official record where a public link exists. Groupings, section placement, headings, name formatting, and any “related” or “bundle” designation are editorial judgments made by software and are not part of any official record. Where a public office publishes no dollar figure in its index, the Index carries none; the figure is in the instrument, which you can obtain from the office.

2.3 What we withhold. Some categories of court filing that the law treats as confidential, or that we treat as confidential as a matter of policy, are omitted. The Index is therefore not a complete list of everything filed. Absence of an entry is not evidence that no filing exists.

3. Errors: two places they enter, and neither is cured here

3.1 Errors at the counter. Every entry begins as information keyed into a government system by a person in the office where the document was filed. That person can mistype a name, transpose parties, misdate a filing, misclassify a document, or omit an item. Public offices themselves disclaim the accuracy of their online indexes and state that the online index is not the official repository. The Index inherits every such error, and we have no ability to detect most of them.

3.2 Errors in assembly. The automated tools that collect, parse, sort, group, format, and publish the entries are also subject to error. They can misread a field, join instruments that do not belong together, separate ones that do, drop a record, duplicate a record, place an entry in the wrong section, format a name incorrectly, or fail to run on a given day. We test these tools and correct defects we find, and we still make no representation that any edition is free of them.

3.3 Timing. Entries reflect what a public office had published at the moment our tools collected it. Offices correct, supplement, re-index, seal, expunge, and withdraw records after the fact. An entry that was accurate when collected may not be accurate now, and the Index will not necessarily reflect the change.

3.4 Your obligation. Before relying on any entry for any purpose, confirm it against the official record at the office that holds it. The link we provide, where one exists, is a convenience; the official record is what you must read.

4. License grant

4.1 Grant. Subject to this License and to payment of any applicable subscription fee, the Publisher grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access, read, search, and print the Index for your own use and for the internal business use of the single organization that purchased the subscription.

4.2 What you may do. Read it. Search it. Print copies for your own or your organization’s internal use. Follow its links to the official records. Quote or reproduce an individual entry, with attribution to the Index and to the public office that holds the record, in the ordinary course of your work or reporting.

4.3 What you may not do. You may not:

  • resell, sublicense, rent, lend, syndicate, or redistribute the Index or any substantial portion of it, in any form, to anyone outside the subscribing organization;
  • republish the Index, or any substantial portion or regular extract of it, in any publication, website, database, product, or service, including a competing legal-record publication;
  • scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-download the Index by automated means, or circumvent any access control, rate limit, or authentication;
  • remove or alter any notice, source line, or attribution in the Index;
  • use the Index for any purpose prohibited by § 1.5, § 1.7, or applicable law; or
  • represent the Index, or any entry in it, as an official record, a certified copy, or a governmental publication.

4.4 The public record is yours; our compilation is ours. The facts recorded in public offices belong to no one and are available to everyone from the office that holds them. This License claims nothing in those facts. It claims the Publisher’s compilation: the selection, arrangement, grouping, formatting, headings, section design, annotations, software output, and presentation of the Index, which are protected by copyright and other law and are the Publisher’s property. Nothing in this License stops you from going to a public office and obtaining any record for yourself.

4.5 Term and termination. The license runs for your subscription term and ends when the subscription ends or when you breach this License. On termination you must stop using and destroy all copies of the Index in your possession, other than printed copies already lawfully made for your internal files. Sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination.

5. No warranty

THE INDEX IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PUBLISHER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, CURRENCY, RELIABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE PUBLISHER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE INDEX IS ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY ENTRY MATCHES THE OFFICIAL RECORD, THAT ANY FILING IS INCLUDED OR EXCLUDED, THAT ANY LINK WILL RESOLVE, OR THAT ANY EDITION WILL BE PUBLISHED ON ANY DAY.

6. Limitation of liability

6.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PUBLISHER, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDEX OR THIS LICENSE, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

6.2 THE PUBLISHER’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDEX OR THIS LICENSE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE SUBSCRIPTION FEES YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR THE INDEX IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100), WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

6.3 These limitations are an essential basis of the bargain. The subscription price would be higher without them. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those jurisdictions the limitations apply to the fullest extent the law allows.

7. Your responsibility and indemnity

You are solely responsible for any decision you make or action you take in reliance on the Index, and for confirming every entry against the official record before doing so. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Publisher and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors from any claim, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable attorney’s fees) arising from your use of the Index in breach of this License, your reliance on an entry without confirming it against the official record, or your use of the Index for any purpose prohibited by § 1.5, § 1.7, or law.

8. Corrections

We want to know when an entry is wrong. Report an error to scott.mann@lubbocklights.com with the edition date, the entry, and the official record it should match. We will review the report, correct the Index where our records show a defect in our assembly, and, where the discrepancy originates in the public office’s own index, note that the official record controls. Corrections appear in the online edition and archive; printed editions already distributed are not recalled. A correction is not an admission of liability.

9. General terms

9.1 Governing law and venue. This License is governed by the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Exclusive venue for any dispute arising out of or relating to the Index or this License lies in the state or federal courts sitting in Lubbock County, Texas, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

9.2 Changes. We may revise this License. The version in force is the one published at lubbocklights.com/legal/license and printed in the current edition. Continued use after a revision is acceptance of it.

9.3 Entire agreement; severability; no waiver. This License, with the subscription terms you accepted at purchase, is the entire agreement between you and the Publisher about the Index. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in force and the provision is enforced to the maximum extent the law allows. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

9.4 No assignment. You may not assign or transfer this License or your subscription without our written consent.

9.5 Contact. Lubbock Stories, Inc. · P.O. Box 1468, Lubbock, TX 79408 · (806) 777-7782 · scott.mann@lubbocklights.com.