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Jordan Smith
Austin attorney Mina Brees, who ran unsuccessfully for a spot on Texas’ Third Court of Appeals in 2006 and who recently ran into trouble over a plan to have a list of Texas restaurants pay her to reclaim their business names, has died in Colorado, reports the Austin American-Statesman. She was 59.
The circumstances surrounding her death have not yet been made public.
More about Brees’ recent trouble can be found in this week’s Chronicle.
This article appears in August 7 • 2009.
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