"No effective appeal to the federal level. Texas law is, as Mr. Gray says, clear. The opinions in the circuit - in the Fifth Circuit where Texas is - are also clear. Unfortunately, CBS was in a position where there was simply no legal recourse at all in the place where this was going on."

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