Lisa, just a clarification. The ruling you mention relates to civil court cases only. It does not affect Real Property Records as typically maintained by County Clerks in Texas.  Unless there is other legislation prohibiting the Clerk's from making the Land Records available thru the internet, I would suspect that as the funds are available and the needs and demands arise from the residents in the counties, more Clerk's will make available their records (if only the indexes) online.  Assessor Records are certainly finding it easier to make their records available through the services of companies like True Automation (http://www.trueautomation.com/).  I used www.NetrOnline.com yesterday to look up the assessor for Walker Co, TX and after linking to the assessor site, I went to "Search Records" and was sent to a query page hosted by True Automation. I clicked the link to their site and found that the bios of the company officers show a number of them as former employees of county assessor offices.