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4 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
When Cornell counter-offered with terms more befitting an institution committed to academic freedom, Leo took his pile of cash to Texas A&M, which, The Intercept story states, accepted the money and Leo’s conditions. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 12:59 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
A handful of states – including California, Florida and Texas – have laws in place allowing for chemical castration, but in some of those states offenders can opt for the surgical procedure if they prefer. [read post]
31 May 2024, 3:17 pm by John Floyd
  The Texas Legislature enacted Art. 38.37, Section 2(b) full well knowing that it would make securing child sexual assault convictions easier, regardless of its prejudicial impact on the right to a fair trial. [read post]
30 May 2024, 12:37 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Alito piously insisted there that, as Professor Dorf described Alito's argument, "federal courts must bend over backwards to assume good faith by state legislatures lest they interfere with the legislatures' political judgment. [read post]
30 May 2024, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
The bill specifies the Ten Commandments text which must be used-- choosing the text that appeared on the Ten Commandments marker at the Texas State Capitol that was the subject of the U.S. [read post]
28 May 2024, 5:59 am by Nikhel Sus
As that litigation plays out, Republican-controlled legislatures across the country are pursuing bills modeled after S.B. 4. [read post]
27 May 2024, 11:22 am by John Floyd
  The 2023 Texas Legislature, through S.B. 1527, changed the outcry rule by increasing the child’s age from under 14 to a child under 18 years of age. [read post]
24 May 2024, 12:00 am
The state legislature has enacted several laws aimed at improving the lives of those who have served our country. [read post]
23 May 2024, 10:05 pm by Josh Blackman
Justice Alito's majority opinion afforded a presumption of good faith to the legislature. [read post]
23 May 2024, 5:39 am by Amir C. Tayrani
In the absence of clear authorization from Congress, that weighty question rests with the legislature, not unelected bureaucrats. [read post]
22 May 2024, 7:03 am by Eugene Volokh
After laying out the elements of a claim for civil sexual assault in both states, Schwartz argues that Luke's conduct on December 18, 2021 is civil sexual assault in both Texas and Utah. [read post]
19 May 2024, 6:51 am by Kevin LaCroix
About the State ESG Backlash Legislation: Readers interested in the impact of the anti-ESG legislation that many states have adopted will want to read the recent paper from the Wharton School discussing the effect of legislation adopted by the Texas legislature. [read post]
17 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Henry Cuellar has often reminisced about growing up in Laredo, Texas, where his parents, one-time migrant workers, raised him and his seven siblings to value hard work and beware the dangers of debt. [read post]
16 May 2024, 10:54 am by Josh Blackman
He was not sent to Austin to sit as a Council of Revision for the Texas legislature. [read post]
15 May 2024, 9:05 pm by Madeline Bruning
In the United States, very few state wildlife agencies receive steady, or even one-time, appropriations from their state legislatures. [read post]
14 May 2024, 10:58 am by Unknown
In a story about an increase in the number of toll roads in Texas,** a former Texas state representative admitted that “Texas made a mistake. [read post]